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Great time. Super weather, super food, mellow street scene. The reason this is in the health section is that I think it would be impossible to get fat or stay fat living in urban San Francisco. In a week I saw a few fat teenage girls picnicking in Dolores Park, and no other overweights. In particular, my age group of 60 plus men looked fit and happy. Just messing around I walked 6-8 miles every day, and my Fitbit recorded awesome floors totals.
I found the building I left 40 years ago to come here. Rent has increased 25X. No way could I afford to live there now.
So I will say again, If you live in Shangri-La, think carefully before you leave. Using my judgment today, I would work an extra 10 years to live in San Francisco over some random place. It's one thing to live one's whole life in some ok place, and stay there on retirement. It's another to live in a spectacular place and then retire to so-so, because you need or think you need something cheaper.
I am so glad I own a nice flat in an urban area of a nice city. I looked at a 900 sq ft. flat in an old building in Noe Valley- $3959/mo. And my son told me that is not bad at all.
Interestingly to me, most costs were essentially equal to Seattle's, except buying or renting real estate, which in similarly urban areas costs much more in SF than in Seattle..
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I found the building I left 40 years ago to come here. Rent has increased 25X. No way could I afford to live there now.
So I will say again, If you live in Shangri-La, think carefully before you leave. Using my judgment today, I would work an extra 10 years to live in San Francisco over some random place. It's one thing to live one's whole life in some ok place, and stay there on retirement. It's another to live in a spectacular place and then retire to so-so, because you need or think you need something cheaper.
I am so glad I own a nice flat in an urban area of a nice city. I looked at a 900 sq ft. flat in an old building in Noe Valley- $3959/mo. And my son told me that is not bad at all.
Interestingly to me, most costs were essentially equal to Seattle's, except buying or renting real estate, which in similarly urban areas costs much more in SF than in Seattle..
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