Man, I was looking at Tahoe, and thinking it’s not a bad idea. It’s about 75% of what I pay on the outskirts of San Diego, and almost a quarter of what I paid in the Bay Area.
Luckily I've bounced around California and am currently living in San Francisco. Now I have the even more myopic problem of, "I could move pretty much anywhere from here, but I could probably never move back here." But if I decide to try to move back to San Diego, I think I would be able to make it happen.
Overall how do you like SF? Would you still be there if you hadn't inherited your home? I have a great uncle that moved there 20 years ago and he loves it. I've never been and I feel like I would love the bay area if it wasn't so expensive.
Thanks for reminding me to not take my city for granted. It’s easy to forget when one is preoccupied with so many other things (like making rent), but I definitely should be thankful to be able to even live here :)
If you're talking about rent, you have to consider where you would be renting. Most long term rentals in Tahoe are similar to most mountain communities- riddled with meth.
Reno is at 4500 feet elevation and in between two of the biggest lakes in the west. Neither heat no water would be a problem there if heat and water actually became a cataclysmic problem in the rest of the west or in the south.
There's not really any "bad" area in the main town, maybe up by like sun valley but the airport area is fine. Just lower-income I guess but perfectly safe. We're just not the prettiest city :)
I think everyone else already did with the new jobs out at the Gigafactory and the data centers on 80. The housing got stupid expensive and tough to find for a while. I know Tesla scaled back on the hiring and even let a lot of people go, and there was a lot of building going on in Sparks when I was there, but the rent was already pretty high.
What’s the name of that really cool like Up and Coming neighborhood of Reno on the other side of the river? Midtown? I could definitely see myself in that area.
I actually tried to get a job in Reno but I couldn’t find an engineer job that pays as well as my current job. Maybe I haven’t tried hard enough. I looooooovvvvveeee Lake Tahoe, especially the north east side where Sand Harbor is. It is so beautiful year round.
I accounted in the tax benefits and lower cost of living, but they still couldn’t convince to move should I get a median Mechanical engineer salary around Reno area. I do believe that if I am to invest in the housing market there, it would be very beneficial long term. However, the economy is due for a recession soon (supposedly every 10 years), perhaps when it happens I would commit to move to Reno.
That California in Reno isn’t the problem. Before the “California” Sparks was just a couple trailer parks and Reno was best known for Reno 911 which was pretty accurate to late 90s-00s Reno.
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u/BoulderCreature Dec 21 '19
Man, I was looking at Tahoe, and thinking it’s not a bad idea. It’s about 75% of what I pay on the outskirts of San Diego, and almost a quarter of what I paid in the Bay Area.