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Semi-poor guy wants to move to SF area

by Aaron
How expensive is it to live in SF (and East Bay, etc.) compared to places like Portland, Oregon?
I'd like to move to the SF bay area soon, but I've heard horror stories about the cost of living there and the competition for jobs. I'm thinking Oakland/East Bay area would be good to save money on rent, because SF proper has insane apartment prices. I am a semi-poor just-graduated-college guy with quite a bit of debt and late bills, so I need to know if I can hack it in SF or if places like Seattle would be a lot cheaper.

Here's my estimated budget for my looking for apartment / first two months trying to find a job phase. Can someone take a look please?

http://web.pdx.edu/~ashaver/moving2.html

Portland, Oregon (where I'm coming from) is pretty cool, but finding a job isn't terribly easy and the super cloudy weather makes me clinically depressed in the winters.

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