jimmyjam

You site craignelsen.com is objectionable - why are you busy loading thousands of little gifs to form a picture of yourself?

Maybe if you had included some of your previous experiences hiring craigslist coders with references, you would be received more warmly.

As it stands, your ad is crap in that it doesn't provide any useful information about the job or compensation. In addition, you're either a Director at "Buddy Clubs" or a Independent Non-Profit Organization Management Professional, whatever that means. Neither title inspires much confidence in programmers.

I'll have to respectfully disagree. The TL is sketchy, but there are so many crackheads/witnesses/cops around since it's close to city center, overt violence is more rare than you'd think.

The mission is my favourite district in the city, and it's close to everything. If I had to live in the city, I'd live in the mission.

The sunset is crap. It's like a suburb that's attached to the city, especially outer sunset, where the rents are cheaper. It's blocks and blocks of houses, and very family oriented. There are a few good places in the sunset, but it's almost essential to have a car there, and you can't really go bar hopping, and it's about 20 minutes to drive to downtown.

That's optimistic, especially if you want to use bicycles and public transit.

You could live in the tenderloin - it's one of the worst districts in the city, but it's close to a lot of stuff and rents are cheap.

Check craigslist. Also, there was mashup posted here earlier. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=111...

Pretty good summary. Seems like you guys are concerned about saving money and making good contacts - in that case, I'd probably recommend the mission. You'll have to pay like 1000-1500 for a studio, but the location is prime and it's eminently walkable.