My wife and I have been casually thinking of moving apartments.

kf

@skinnylatte you live such a more exciting life than me

when I moved to the pearl district, I was so nervous about public transportation, because there's mostly just the streetcar within ~10 minutes walking

but it turns out I'm a boring person and that's usually enough for me

(also, I REALLY enjoy the streetcar)

Adrianna Tan

We’re from places where transit are big part of life (Singapore, Paris), so deciding where to live was usually mainly ‘do I like this place?’ Instead of that and ‘well how will I get somewhere?’ Transit is good enough in those places to be a non-factor. There will always be trains, buses to where you want to go. At the most you’ll change lines. But there are some neighborhoods here that are almost transit deserts. I don’t want to stand in the cold and dark in the winter for one single bus!

Adrianna Tan

@kf sf is also the smallest city we’ve ever lived in. 5-15M cities have been the norm, so sf and Portland are.. very different haha

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@skinnylatte it's been my experience that renting someplace in the East Bay close to a BART station, made commuting to work places in SOMA and the Mission faster than when I was in the fogbank/outer sunset in SF and contending with MUNI.

Hagfish fancier v4.02.01

@[email protected] the way it was described to me a while back is that transit in sf was designed mainly to funnel people into and out of downtown. the further away you are from that, usually in a north/south direction, the more time you need to add

Adrianna Tan

@pagrus I saw a place I really liked in like, twin peaks, and of course driving to sf state is 8 min but transit is going back all the way back to market then going onto the M, which takes the same time as just taking the M from civic center

So many pockets are like that

Hagfish fancier v4.02.01

@[email protected] I live not too far from you but it is an inconvenience to take transit aside from a handful of routes

Adrianna Tan

@teajaygrey oh for sure

Diego

@skinnylatte Feeling that right now as I have to move to a small town for my partner's work and we're absolutely only considering places within a 10 min walk of the train station.

Adrianna Tan

@DiegoBeghin ooh, in which country?

Adrianna Tan

Who am I kidding, the furthest we will likely move is like, lower pac heights or Hayes valley

Being further away from city center density will absolutely drive me up a wall (I don’t do well outside those areas; even the Richmond and sunset is too suburban for me)

Adrianna Tan

Flashback to when I took a Singaporean kid who was moving to sf to noe valley to look at apartments and she was like ‘I can’t live here, it’s too suburban’ and I felt so seen

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@skinnylatte We liked Nob Hill (Sacramento/Hyde). When we had kids we moved to central Richmond (just north of GGP near Park Presidio) and we were a bit nervous about “the ‘burbs,” but it’s great out here being so close to GGP and the Presidio. Miss the Nob Hill area sometimes but it was definitely not great for biking around with kids.

Hagfish fancier v4.02.01

@[email protected] I do like being close to Chinatown though, and walking to any number of places is downhill at least. it can be a drag coming back home though

Adrianna Tan

@rombat id take inner Richmond over the actual burbs any day. But it’ll still be an adjustment for sure

Adrianna Tan

@pagrus it’s also so weird to me how north beach is so.. transit lite

Finite Hate Machine

@skinnylatte I used to live in those ex-army apartments above baker beach and it felt like I was in Marin or something

Adrianna Tan

@secretasianman oh yeah they’re really nice but so remote

That’s why people like it I guess

Finite Hate Machine

@skinnylatte I worked just down the hill at the press so it was nice but I remember walking back with a 50lb bag of rice from Clement St and that nearly killed me

Adrianna Tan

@secretasianman an ebike these days should fix that!