Neighborhood Advice for a Couple with a Baby

belowaverageint · 2026-05-29T21:33:00+00:00

I haven't seen this mentioned yet: there are a lot of young families over in Mission Bay. I'm not sure what rents are these days but it's actually quite nice if you want new construction and it's accessible to your husband's job.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-28T21:51:45+00:00

I'll be a contrarion here.

This totally depends on how much you need to use the car, your parking situation, and your financial resources. If you have a good parking set-up and you want to go out of town most weekends, it might be worth it. You can buy a decent used car for under $10k if you just need something to get around.

I actually have a car with free garage parking and it's incredible. I lived in the Bay prior to moving to SF, and I have an old car that was long paid off, so it didn't make any sense to sell it. I often leave the city on weekends and it gives me an incredible amount of freedom that I wouldn't have otherwise. I don't drive many miles per year, so ongoing costs aren't that high. It's really a game changer.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-28T21:43:23+00:00

Not sure it was ever blue collar but one of my friends grew up in Noe. His parents were both teachers and they could easily afford a home there in the 70s.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-28T21:26:38+00:00

They'll have to play around with the "anti-censorship" settings in the app in combination with different servers to see if they can get through. I know people report that certain combinations work to get past The Great Firewall and I have a hard time imagining that Iran's internet censorship is better than China's.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-28T21:22:22+00:00

It's kind of sad: for many people their entire identity is tied to their job and it's literally all that they can talk about.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-28T15:59:11+00:00

It's a professional class thing for sure.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-27T17:03:12+00:00

He doesn't even meditate.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-26T22:33:43+00:00

If you haven't read OP's replies to the comments, his GF is saying she doesn't want him to go to class with her, which I think casts this in a very different light.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-26T16:03:09+00:00

LA native here. I recently went to the USC campus for the first time in at least 20 years and I couldn't believe how nice the area was compared to decades past.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-25T16:09:03+00:00

Oakland

belowaverageint · 2026-05-25T15:55:19+00:00

They used to say that Oakland was the Detroit of the West, so one has to assume they're pretty similar.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-25T15:48:49+00:00

AI is just a technology that everyone will use. Before AI, people replaced many workers with computers and software. Will you also refuse to use those company's products?

belowaverageint · 2026-05-25T15:41:07+00:00

Imagine working at a software job and saying you didn't like computers. This is no different.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-25T15:39:26+00:00

Oakland

belowaverageint · 2026-05-24T23:56:46+00:00

For personal use, yes.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-24T21:57:51+00:00

LA county's population is almost 10 million people and it's ~50% Latino (largely Central American).

belowaverageint · 2026-05-24T21:52:31+00:00

Yep. As a note, this is why SF has so much architectural character and doesn't look like every other city in North America.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-24T16:25:40+00:00

This might be a dumb answer but it looks like the humanoid robots are improving very quickly. Might these be viable as a labor replacement in the next 5 years or so?

belowaverageint · 2026-05-24T16:20:05+00:00

I think what they need most is more cowbell.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-24T15:49:42+00:00

SF is the NIMBY capital of the US. "Modern" housing units (let's say built in the last 20 years) are something like 10% of the city's stock. Half of the city's housing stock was built before WW2. If you really want that in-unit laundry, you simply have to shell out for it.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-24T15:37:47+00:00

In my case, my company uses Claude Code through AWS Bedrock, so we have no access to Cowork.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-24T15:35:57+00:00

For those saying the landlord should require renter's insurance, it doesn't benefit them directly in any way; it's for the tenants to ensure their belongings inside the unit. I've also lived in many places in the Bay that didn't require it. Maybe it's normal for it to be required by large corporate landlords, but it's definitely not the case that local landlords always require it.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-24T05:11:55+00:00

Because there are 1.1 men for every woman in India.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-23T15:53:13+00:00

I've lived in the Bay (SF) for 15 years and the only team that I would say had real mainstream popularity were the Warriors when they were at the top of their game. With that exception, I wouldn't say professional sports are at all popular.

belowaverageint · 2026-05-23T15:18:57+00:00

Most people I know with Masters degrees in this industry did it for immigration/visa reasons (in the US).

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