Move from Portland, OR to San Francisco? Programmer / Technologist needs to decide...what do you think?

So I have a very young family, my partner has a job she can walk into in SF and I am am a technology worker who works on new products. Portland is cool, cheap and full of nice people but bad for technology career. SF is great with good weather, culture, startups ,cool people but is ludiscrously expensive, urban and decaying.

Getting great job offers in SF poor ones in PDX. PDX better to raise a family. What do you think?

Asked by Furgat 57 months ago Similar questions: Move Portland San Francisco Programmer Technologist decide Local > United States > San Francisco - CA.

Similar questions: Move Portland San Francisco Programmer Technologist decide.

Local > United States > San Francisco - CA.

San Francisco is lovely, but it's awfully expensive My cousin had a really high-salary job, a husband and two kids. She was living in Sausalito and the cost of living there was just so high, that she ended up moving back to Atlanta. I love San Francisco.It really is a great city with tons to do and it is so scenic.

I have great memories of visiting that town and working there briefly. But I just can't imagine living there. You're right that you'll have more job opportunities, but it's so expensive.

And I think Portland is a better place to raise a family, too. I'd have to suggest staying in Portland. Take a look at this online cost-of-living calculator.

You basically have to make 50% (48.33%) more in order to maintain the same standard of living in San Francisco compared to Portland. bankrate.com/brm/movecalc.asp?a=0&d1=500... say it again, I love that town. But take a good look at your current income level and your potential income level.

Unless you really expect to make a lot more in San Francisco, you're better off in Portland. Good luck no matter what you decide! Sources: My Opinion .

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Portland is the greatest city in America - you'd move OUT of it? To go to SAN FRANCISCO of all places?!

No. Go take your medicine, pound your skull against the nearest wall until you've mashed this idea out of it, and go back outside and look around at how beautiful your city is. Talk to some you do not know; notice how they do not tear your face off and spit in it before dropping it on the side walk.

You have a family, and you'd expose them to the cultrual toxins rampant in San Fran? I should call child services.No. You have safe(r) schools, much safer neighborhoods, roads, malls, streets...Portland is heaven for young families.

Now go for a drive. Stop and pull out a map. Use a stopwatch that measures tenths of seconds so you can tell exactly how long it takes for someone to stop and offer to help you find your way.

Now try this in San Francisco. After you finish giving a description of the carjacker and leave the police station, go back home to Portland - and stay there! Sources: experience .

Are you sure PDX is better for raising a family..? I would have to question your general assumption that PDX is a better place to raise a family than SF. Think of all the cultural and educational opportunities for you and your family that you might not have in PDX. Weren’t those things you dreamed of when you were young?

: ) I think it’s cool to raise a family in an urban environment where they grow up with people from all walks of life and will be savvy about the world. It also sounds like SF would provide more opportunities for you and your partner for employment and, thus, more ways to support your family. Of course, I concur with the cost of living argument.My biggest "con" for you would be the risk of catastropic earthquakes.

But don’t think of that right now.

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