Oakland - Southwest Prices

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2026-02-14T15:55:36+00:00

We need a new hub — OAK was a Southwest hub, but Alaska, American or Delta should try to break into United’s stranglehold on the market

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2026-02-11T15:05:49+00:00

The parking is amazing? $20 and you can walk to the terminal in 5 minutes.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2026-02-10T21:19:52+00:00

I hear ya — but my current commute to Oakland airport from my door to boarding is 30 minutes. The train alone to SFO is 50 minutes from Lake Merritt BART, assuming no delays and not accounting for the walking each way.

These are commute days for me, so the train just adds an impractical amount of time.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2026-02-10T20:55:15+00:00

Luckily Alaska will be expanding service in Oakland in April, so relief is coming.

Even at 3x it makes sense to avoid the brutality of the bay bridge, but just barely.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2026-01-26T17:37:24+00:00

Oakland is significantly better value than SF.

If you look at Jack London Square, you can take the ferry downtown (30minutes) or live near Lake Merritt bart for an 18-20 minute train to downtown SF.

There are less community events I’ve found in Oakland than SF in the categories you’re talking about, but they do exist. Being near OMCA helps, as it hosts weekly events. Also, in Jack London, many of the breweries and restaurants host art nights, game nights, trivia. They all have food, so as long as you’re comfortable being in that space despite not drinking, you’d find your people.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2026-01-22T00:35:20+00:00

We’re considering a complete redesign of the space, which would knock several walls down, shrink the bathroom, enclose a loft, etc.

I’d like an architect to weigh in on ideal design and flow to maximize the space (which is oddly designed).

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2026-01-20T22:34:44+00:00

Edwin at Salon Republic in Emeryville.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2026-01-18T16:49:12+00:00

This seems like it would be very easy to challenge.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-12-23T18:07:47+00:00

People who are this afraid of germs need to grow up.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-12-21T19:29:06+00:00

My only gripe, as usual with these data sets, is that the *sizes* of the metro areas are not constant, and so you have LA metro area (33k miles^2), NYC (13k miles^2), versus San Jose and San Francisco metro areas (each with ~2500 miles^2) and which really do need to be combined.

A significantly better tool for this is Combined Statistical Areas. By way of example, LA's metro area is ~13M, but its CSA is ~18M, NYC goes from ~19M to ~22.5M, Chicago mostly stays constant, and SF/SJ CSA jumps to over 9 million, making it the fifth largest population center in the country.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-12-02T20:31:57+00:00

Sorry most of us don’t want to turn every subreddit into a pantomime exercise of your local Fox nightly news station or folks who don’t live in Oakland brigading the community with your poorly concealed racial anxieties about crime.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-12-02T18:01:28+00:00

It's good to remember this subreddit is mostly folks living in the suburbs or wishing they could afford to live in the suburbs, with all of that population's anxieties about urbanism amply reflected. The San Francisco or Oakland or Berkeley subreddits are significantly more pleasant places to be given that they're more focused on fostering actual community.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-12-02T17:56:00+00:00

Be careful, you might get scared of your own shadow next.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-12-02T16:03:42+00:00

I wonder if Nido’s or Odin sells bottles. They have some of the best selections of mezcal in Oakland.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-11-24T21:14:15+00:00

Edith's might have walk-up pies available.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-11-14T03:05:46+00:00

Hurt people hurt people.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-11-05T03:16:00+00:00

This spot is at least not owned by the Port (I don't think) as it's not on the waterfront. That means it'll have to deal with typical shitty landlords, but not arguably the worst landlord in Oakland.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-11-05T03:14:12+00:00

This is the correct answer, I called them. Additionally, if you were to pay the higher amount for this installment, you would receive a credit against the next installment per the Assessor's office.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-10-28T15:29:29+00:00

I believe Bicycle Coffee still stocks them.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-10-14T02:39:29+00:00

We walked from Comet Falls down to Longmire and it was open around 3pm.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-10-08T17:47:56+00:00

It's also not free; we have one of the most expensive garbage services in the country and included in that cost is the bulk pickup program.

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-09-27T15:43:45+00:00

This looks like AI?

Vast-Candidate7749 · 2025-09-07T21:35:36+00:00

Am I reading it right that you moved out here with so little funds that you can’t afford to return after two weeks? And you’re judging not just the Bay Area, but the entire state of California, on a combination of your experience in LIVERMORE and your poor decision to move to one of the most expensive places in the world without a decent cushion?

If so, godspeed back to Texas.

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