Joni West

Joni West, lives in San Francisco

Answered 1h ago

It depends on several factors. First, you can't afford to buy anything in SF or anywhere near SF on $200,000 so if you want to buy a home, no. Crappy homes start at $1,000,000. If you want an apartment in a nice neighborhood, a one bedroom will cost you an average rent of about $3,700. That doesn't include parking. You won't want to park on the street because your car WILL be broken into, new or old, fancy or Ford. So parking will cost you a few hundred more. Unless you are coming from NYC, everything will be more expensive here. If you have to commute in your car, gas can add up fast. It's the most beautiful city in the country and a unique and ever changing salad of different people. It's easy to think that $200,000 as a single person is going to have you living like royalty but it isn't. You can definitely live here, just beware that the places that used to be affordable are no longer. Tech workers have caused the rents to go sky high. If you feel pulled to come here, then do it. If it doesn't matter that much to you, go somewhere you can afford a better quality of life for the salary, if you can get it somewhere else.

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