If you're going to go carless, commuting with bikes is common on the peninsula. But I have the feeling SF proper will be more to your liking since you're coming straight from Chitown.
I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.
Angel ,'Chosen'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
javachik - Jun 12, 2015 5:37:02 pm PDT #28572 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
shrift - Jun 12, 2015 5:42:26 pm PDT #28573 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Well they famously have buses which will take you from SF to your new job.
Yes, I have taken those buses like the tech asshole that I am. We also have internal maps, but I am in information-gathering mode so I'll take all tips.
But I have the feeling SF proper will be more to your liking since you're coming straight from Chitown.
I do like living in a city proper, this much is true.
Dana - Jun 12, 2015 5:50:24 pm PDT #28574 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I don't know if I can envision shrift commuting on a bike.
sarameg - Jun 12, 2015 5:57:40 pm PDT #28575 of 30000
I have some friends who relocated there in the past couple of years. They moved with toddler and pregnant, (plus going 2 salaries to 1+ school) so had different priorities, but might have insight to the relo experience and cola shift. Let me know if you want their contact info. I think they ended up out in Emeryville?
-t - Jun 12, 2015 6:11:10 pm PDT #28576 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
You could live out by me and commute by train!
Not really, it would be extremely impractical, but fun for me. I can't even you offer sushi near the train station, that restaurant is Italian now. But what could be more citified than the City of Suisun City? (answer: many many places. There's a cow pasture a quarter mile from downtown and the tallest building is three stories if you count the bell tower)
-t - Jun 12, 2015 6:24:45 pm PDT #28577 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just lit a fireplace match with a kitchen torch so I could light my candles. Because I couldn't get the striking surface on the box of matches to work and I knew where the torch was.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 12, 2015 7:42:14 pm PDT #28578 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Does Huckabee have any associates who aren't embroiled in child molestation scandals? [link]
WindSparrow - Jun 12, 2015 7:58:50 pm PDT #28579 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Consuela, my heart goes out to you.
meara - Jun 12, 2015 8:23:36 pm PDT #28580 of 30000
Matt, maybe that explains some of the "but wouldn't everybody molest their sleeping sisters if they could? I want to be a trans lady so I can shower with girls!" BS that those folks come out with?
Consuela - Jun 12, 2015 9:19:08 pm PDT #28581 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Thanks, everyone. We got some good snuggling in tonight.
shrift, I hate to say it, but don't listen to -t. You could live in the East Bay, but the commute would be a bear. Although I don't know what Your Employer's rules are about telecommuting. There is a bus at the West Oakland BART station (which got attacked by protestors in some recent anti-gentrification protests).
SF or the Peninsula would be better, even though I'd love to have you in the East Bay...