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It's also pretty miserable even if you make decent money (mid-100s). Thankfully, I am headed for greener pastures in less than a week. Goodbye to the most dysfunctional and disgusting city I've ever lived in. Amazing place to gain work experience if you work in tech, but a horrible place to live.

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Agreed, I've lived at a wide range of places, from nice suburb near Dallas to mid-sized "cool city" like Austin to international metropolis like Shanghai, and SF is by far the least livable place (especially cost adjusted) in my opinion. Nice weather, cool culture, but very, very broken infrastructure and government and pretty much anything that has to do with policy and regulation.

i lived there for 2 years during a non-insane period of time (2006-2007) and made 100k, and everything was a pain in the ass. you literally could not even walk down the street a single time without dealing with some kind of fucked up problem. looking back on it in retrospect, it was even worse than it felt, but i was young, and liked to party. like most people there.

such a beautiful city, too. it really kind of broke the illusion for me. still wonderful to visit though, because you live in a fantasy-travel bubble instead of having to deal with day to day life.

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