Originally Posted by
winovin
Well, everything in SF seems to be cheaper than NYC, so not an issue!
Whoa! Not really, particularly if you're looking to buy rather than rent.
Just trying to find a quality of life comparable to that of NYC (which means bars, restaurants, etc). When I went out on a Monday nite in SF recently, pretty much everything was dead. I asked a couple of hotel concierges, and the only place that had more than 2 people present was the Redwood Room, but that was not exactly busy.
Monday is a slower night in SF, and the Redwood Room is usually packed, though you need to remember, too, that the population of SF is 750,000 versus the 8,000,000+ in New York. Restaurants in SF are scattered all over though, of course, there is a concentration of them in and around the Union Square area which corresponds, very roughly, to the Broadway and the theater district (though the Redwood Room is also adjacent to the Tenderloin, which is definitely
not an area in which you wish to live. You'd probably like the Haight or Hayes Valley. Both are kind of "villagy." North Beach might be another possibility. SF is more neighborhood-oriented than NY, and the neighborhoods are really quite small.