Re:Renting a 1-bedroom apartment near BART in the Bay Area
by allr on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @02:24PM
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Does anybody have children in SF? How is it possible with these rent prices?
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Re:Renting a 1-bedroom apartment near BART in the Bay Area
by chuckcode on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @02:38PM
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About 80% of folks I know with kids leave San Francisco before they turn 5. The big issues are high rent, variability of school quality and logistics getting kids+gear around. City has done some great work to upgrade the kid's parks but the rent, schools and logistics make it very expensive to raise kids in SF.
Re:Renting a 1-bedroom apartment near BART in the Bay Area
by cpeterso on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @02:50PM
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In 2012, at least, SF had the lowest percentage of children of any major city in the country:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/families-flee-san-f...
Re:Renting a 1-bedroom apartment near BART in the Bay Area
by jedberg on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @02:50PM
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It depends if you mean SF or are including the surrounding area.
The few people I know with kids in SF proper are either dual-income or did well on a startup. Some people live in the Sunset, which is more suburban -- still expensive but at least a little more kid friendly.
Most everyone else I know leaves the city for a suburb. Essentially having kids means your commute gets longer!
(Although in my case it actually got a lot shorter because I also got a job a lot closer to home in the South Bay instead of working in SF).