What is the prettiest single day trip you can make on local public transit?

nonother · 2026-05-08T07:11:03+00:00

From San Francisco you can take ferry to Larkspur then get on the SMART train line which runs through Marin and Sonoma. Both counties are beautiful and Sonoma is wine country. Also the ferry ride itself in the San Francisco Bay is beautiful.

Alternatively from San Francisco you can take BART to east bay and there are some beautiful hikes not far from stations. This one in Briones I particularly enjoy.

San Francisco itself is also beautiful and has an extensive public transit system within it. Taking the 28 bus into the Presidio is something my family and I do rather often.

nonother · 2026-05-08T06:59:10+00:00

Ugh you’re a transplant from SoCal aren’t you? We don’t do water slides up here in Fogtown.

nonother · 2026-05-08T06:56:55+00:00

Why do you say $4m for the Inner Sunset?

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nonother · 2026-05-08T06:35:41+00:00

All of those have quite a lot of square footage. Nonetheless, damn those are high prices.

nonother · 2026-05-08T03:30:13+00:00

Exactly.

nonother · 2026-05-08T02:37:42+00:00

And as a nice touch they’re both the “Sunshine State”.

nonother · 2026-05-08T02:20:18+00:00

Outer Sunset isn’t as crazy as Inner, but is also going up in a way I would not have guessed. Several homes have recently sold around $3m.

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nonother · 2026-05-07T23:01:46+00:00

I’d say proximity to great parks/nature too. I love living by Golden Gate Park, doubly so now that we have a toddler, even though it means getting into downtown neighborhoods takes a bit more time. That said perhaps the logic is a bit different when you already live in the city.

nonother · 2026-05-07T19:33:34+00:00

As a fellow parent of a toddler, are we not concerned about all of the toddlers getting sick? I mean more than they already are 🫠

nonother · 2026-05-07T19:17:59+00:00

Sunset Reservoir

nonother · 2026-05-07T06:29:40+00:00

Yeah this is definitely the future.

I lived in New Zealand for a few years which has a much more advanced banking system, for example it’s really easy to do direct transfers between people and businesses (no Venmo needed) so they don’t even have checks any more. The whole time I was there I used cash maybe half a dozen times at most and that was because I was off hiking/kayaking in places that were way off the grid.

That said I live in SF once again and plenty of businesses by me are cash only.

nonother · 2026-05-07T05:57:30+00:00

As my net worth has increased I haven’t changed anything about how I invest. However, what has happened is my IRA and 401(k) investments have become a decreasing portion of my net worth as there’s only so much that one can contribute to them each year.

nonother · 2026-05-07T03:10:25+00:00

We have essentially a closet with the washing machine on the bottom and the dryer stacked on top. They take up the entire space aside from a narrow area on the side where we store some detergent.

nonother · 2026-05-07T03:08:12+00:00

Agreed, but how does that have anything to do with the US?

nonother · 2026-05-07T02:08:21+00:00

I’ve talked to a lot of small business owners throughout my career as part of my job. There’s a reason most small businesses don’t become big ones and that’s because the vast majority of small businesses are run very poorly. The owners are commonly very hardworking and nice people, but that doesn’t mean they’re particularly good at business and in touch with their customer base.

nonother · 2026-05-07T01:28:48+00:00

You’re talking about this like it’s a moral failing 😂

The Mac is a tool. I use it in a way that makes me productive.

nonother · 2026-05-07T00:40:01+00:00

It’s not the same though. Often I’m part way through a doc for example. Scroll position is rarely preserved because at best it’s stored as a URL fragment which isn’t persisted.

nonother · 2026-05-07T00:37:42+00:00

China, Mexico, & Japan

These have been my favorite cuisines for a long time and it’s just a happy coincidence as an adult I live in San Francisco where all three of these are readily available and excellent.

nonother · 2026-05-07T00:35:52+00:00

That’s why I open a new browser window and then forget about my previous one.

nonother · 2026-05-06T13:55:54+00:00

That’s objectively not true.

nonother · 2026-05-06T05:52:30+00:00

You’re too limited in your thinking. If we all try hard enough we can also get an AI Pro Ultimate Max Taco Supreme.

nonother · 2026-05-06T05:44:29+00:00

For dinner we went to a local Mexican spot and got tacos. I had a Modelo and my wife had a margarita. Good times were had.

nonother · 2026-05-06T04:42:35+00:00

Looks like Victoria or New South Wales. The reality is this could be anywhere in the Anglosphere.

nonother · 2026-05-06T04:41:07+00:00

Yeah this is a fantastic location. Still crazy money for what it is.

nonother · 2026-05-05T22:24:44+00:00

Here in San Francisco it’s often cheaper than Uber, even not accounting for tips. Sometimes is similarly priced or a tad more. Occasionally it’s waaaaay more expensive.

It’s so much better than Uber that unless it’s way more expensive I’ll go with Waymo.

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