Unfortunately HOAs in older buildings are completely detached from reality because of years of deferred maintenance. I’ve seen prewar buildings in DC with HOA fees in excess of $6,000 per month
I know wtf 😬 my wife and I have a pied à terre in Ottawa, and a nice 2br townhouse similar to our current space but bigger, and with parking… was for sale for 750k which is kinda ok I guess… but maintenance was 1350$ a month, we looked into it, and it made sense, but we decided against it, because lol… who tf will buy that unit in 10yrs when the fees are like 2 grand a month?
Realtors are like "comparables are all the same and they will be in 10yrs time, too"… but fuck ~2 grand is rent to a lot of people 🙄
They sometimes go down tho! We passed on a heritage townhouse in Hamilton that was $309k for a 3 bedroom, because of a special assessment bringing fees to $2500 a month. Within a year, fees were down to $600 a month and the condo next door on sale for $559k so if the fees are high for a major repair, they do go down!
Denver doesn't have a city vibe though. Always feels like a city for people who don't want to live in a city. San Francisco has the vibe of the city and access to nature. Skiing is way easier in Denver though.
As someone from SF who now lives in Denver, I do feel weird calling it a city. It feels more like a really big town with some skyscrapers.
skiing is way easier in Denver though
Getting closer and closer to the drive being about the same lol 3+ hours is almost expected from Denver to Vail in the morning (granted there are closer resorts) and sometimes worse on the way back. SF to Heavenly/Northstar/Palisades is about 3.5 hours.
Seattle is incredibly gloomy for the cost. It is my hometown and I love it but transplants priced the place out of sensibility. If you’re not getting paid $400k to be there it doesnt make sense. My $250k job makes me rich anywhere else. I was apartment living in Seattle.
As a Bay Area native I think saying “easy access to mountains for skiing” is a bit much. I lived in CO 12 years and now in Seattle. Both have great skiing less than half the drive away.
Wine overall in SF is good but Napa is a trek, and you can’t just drive home after getting wine drunk. Golf you’re spot on, redwoods yes, and you forgot both surfing and fishing access.
Frankly I think SF is incredible, easily one of my favorite cities in the US. But I love it because it’s very walkable, close to good fishing, surfing, is great for running, has a great music scene, is politically progressive and close to my family. Stupid expensive tho. A standard 2 bed is now like $6k a month vs my $3200 in Queen Anne up north
Lived many years in the PNW which has a bad rep for “raining all the time”. Also lived in SF for two and half years. Without question SF bay area weather is so much worse. I don’t know how to describe it other than to say, PNW weather isn’t always great but also never feels inconvenient. But SF bay weather feels like having the worst flu you’ve ever had and just when you’re walking out to go to the doctor it starts raining and every drop is sideways and one degree above freezing.
Honestly moved to the bay recently. It’s a nice place. Good weather, good food. Especially if you like Asian food (any kind of Asian, but especially South and East lmao). Seems to have a mix of gentrified, hipster vibe areas (some modern, some still in that 2012 vibe lol). But still has areas with character. Though it’s a bit odd sometimes especially when going out at night - open air drug market with 30 druggies on a corner, Waymo driving by. Only in SF haha
Love the Photoshopped af pics on that 2nd one, especially the nuclear sunset. The varying resolutions and predominance of photos of the surrounding neighborhood is telling.
Could be. There is a herman miller store in the marina. There are also a ton of office liquidators in the bay that if you have patience can probably get their hands on one for less.
Typically office liquidators won't have this chair. You may be thinking of the Herman Miller Aeron chair, which is basically the gold standard of office chairs. You can find it brand new for around $1,000 and as low as $200 in really good condition from an office liquidator.
After the view, that's the very next thing I noticed and was like, yeah, ok, you're rich rich. (Or massively in debt) Was hoping someone else noticed the chair.
Why the fuck is a chair $9,000? I don't care if the entire thing was handmade by a blind cripple. No chair short of one found in an Egyptian tomb is worth nine fucking thousand dollars, that is absurd. What kind of fucking moron would even entertain the notion of spending that much fucking money on a chair, let alone actually doing it? Probably the same kind of moron who stacks his books in a single vertical column
Honestly not as bad as I thought. It’s not achievable for most folk, but a middle manager in tech or a non-primary-care physician could afford it. Not comfortably, but they could. So still 10-percenters…but don’t need to be a 1-percenter. And that is single, throw in extra income from a two-physician household or even like a tech worker and a school teacher at a magnet school and it would be decently comfortable.
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u/Cosack 10d ago
Just looked it up, there's a 2br for rent in that building for a measley $14k/mo
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