And was just planning on logging in and responding to your call for help in moving to the bay area (My memory is fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure it was you who was thinking about moving to SF).
I would say that a lot depends on what you want and where you want to live. If you want to live in the city/ have an urban environment, but can afford to live there, I would recommend the sunset or the richmond. If you are young and want to party- pacific heights/cow hollow/russian hill. I have lived in russian hill, upper haight ashbury, and now the sunset. The sunset is the most 'suburban' of the three locations, and by that I mean I can own a car and not have it bankrupt me. Being mostly asian families, it's also the cleanest of the three areas and by far the cheapest. There are different parts of the sunset. 9th and irving is the epicenter of the inner sunset, and there is lots do to near there. West Portal is also a great little neighborhood with easy train access. 19th-26th and irving, and 19-22 and noriega both have good commercial strips as well (and there are a few more dotted throughout the sunset). Note that the farther you live (higher numbers) the more fog you will encounter. I don't know much about the richmond, but clement street (1st on up) has a great commercial district and a lot of really fun places to go. It's also quite close to a lot of 'express' buses which make the commute much faster. (the geary limited or the california limited). Laurel villiage is a nice place to live, but I think a little expensive as well. It has easy highway access to the south bay (if you don't mind driving to silicon valley every day), and easy access to marin. East bay is a bit of a challenge, but my wife drives to berkeley every day for work. It's also nice to live so close to GG park (i live @ 17th and kirkham). The commute downtown isn't great; but if you live closer to west portal it's fast. Other areas in the bay area which are also urban (by urban, I mean you can walk to restaurants and a local bar), and people seem to enjoy are rockridge on the oakland/berkeley border and lake merritt in oakland. Marin is expensive and hard to get to other places (there is a ferry to the city), Alameda is like living in another part of the country. If you don't live there, it is unlikely that you will ever go there (except perhaps to visit the pacific pinball museum). Places in the south bay are a mixed bag- I have a friend who lives in colma and loves it b/c she has a big house and lives right near BART, but the neighborhood is so-so. The mission is fun, but WAY expensive, WAY dirty and getting to be a little unsafe recently. Potrero hill is fairly affordable, sunny and supposedly nice, but I haven't spent much time there. it's also convenient to the south bay and the east bay. On Jan 30, 12:32 pm, Michael Wayne Chapel <[email protected]> wrote: > I am mostly kindle nowadays. The paperbacks were just using too much > bookshelf where now baby books reside. We have a great used book store here > in town that carries a crazy amount of SciFi. > > Mike C. -- > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Mrs. Mystery Bob - Egorjlileli < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > I thought of you this weekend. We went to an antiques store and they > > had some old Sci-Fi books. Of course, I did not have any kind of list > > on me nor could I possibly remember the names/authors that you have > > been searching for. :( > > > On Jan 30, 3:04 pm, Michael Wayne Chapel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Because the Aspergers level today on BGG was going out the roof. > > > > Mike C. -- > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "BGG Down" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
