How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City?

Re: How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? by colmvp on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:43AM (#4447260)

Well on the plus side, with the Bay Area, there's plenty of other relatively affordable areas to purchase if one has a car.

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Re: How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? by wherewhenwhy on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:45AM (#4447264)

Or rides BART. Of course, you then have to live near BART (or drive to BART) and then contend with the ZOMG GERMS!!1Eleven!

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Re: How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? by colmvp on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:48AM (#4447269)

Well that and the fact that BART doesn't run 24/7 like New York's MTA. I have despised situations where I had to sprint to the BART station near closing time, lest I spend a ridiculous amount for a cab.

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Re: How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? by heretohelp on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @02:25AM (#4447339)

Tbqh, this kills the bay area for me, socially speaking.

NYC was way...way better in this respect.

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Re: How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? by colmvp on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @02:37AM (#4447361)

Absolutely. It's actually a terrible situation compared to the flexibility of NY, which had great livable areas in Queens and Brooklyn that still had fantastic access to public transit.

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Re: How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? by mycodebreaks on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @02:24AM (#4447338)

Or you can ride Caltrain. The downside is the accidents on Caltrain tracks. It will literally take 2 hours to get to Mountain View from SF when there is an accident.

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Re: How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? by richardjordan on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @03:11AM (#4447417)

...or when (like the weekend of the first AngelHack event) you are delayed because your train hits a pedestrian (a horrendous sound by the way - you know exactly what's just happened immediately) then the replacement train is delayed because the next train in front hit a second pedestrian. They need to sort out the grade separation, it's just ridiculous, not to mention tragic.

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Re: How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? by mycodebreaks on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:12PM (#4449740)

Totally agree.I wonder why Caltrain is inefficient at times.

What prevents Caltrain to do better in terms of keeping up with schedule? Also, there must be a way to keep fare reasonably cheaper than cost of driving a car to work.

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Re: How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? by richardjordan on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @03:56PM (#4450723)

It's a lack of willingness to invest in the infrastructure. Which is a chicken/egg thing - legislators won't vote for investment as voters don't support something that doesn't deliver value.

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Re: How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? by prodigal_erik on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @02:49AM (#4447384)

Don't laugh, the old porous BART seats are objectively filthy and I'm glad they're being replaced (albeit slowly): http://www.baycitizen.org/transportation/interactive/intimat...

Me, I live near SOMA so I can stumble home when essentially everything but taxis is shut down.

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Re: How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? by tsotha on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @03:42AM (#4447482)

BART is horrible. There aren't many trains and they never do maintenance on the rails so it's noisy as hell.

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