skenned7

I am considering moving from Houston Texas to San Francisco. Any expats living in San Francisco that can give me some insight into cost of living, job market and anything else that might be useful or interesting.

Poppy girl

Heres a start for you http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...=san+francisco

Just put San Francisco in the search tool bar there are loads of us out here are you any good at organizing piss ups

tonrob

Piss-ups that actually happen, that is...

Poppy girl

Well we need a reliable person to make this happen maybe Nick1y can do it or TracyM.....all too much for me!!

tonrob

Next time you're all in Boston, I'll sort you out. Honestly...

N1cky

We will do it, I'll sort it out

I was there recently you didn't sort me out

tonrob

That's because I was sat in bloody San Francisco waiting for Poppy Girl to show up!

traceym

Did someone mention piss up? Winter piss up = cheap hotel = Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Poppy girl

Not that kinda Piss Up have some class



Story of my life

zargof

Piss-up in Boston or San Fran? Why not meet up in the middle here in Iowa?

S Folinsky

You may want to define exactly what you mean by "San Francisco." Do you want to live in The City or will the "Bay Area" be sufficient?

Bob

Because that would be Iowa?

N1cky

At least there would be nothing better to do so everyone would turn up

Philgr

Job market depends on what area you are looking in. High tech seems to be picking up although there's lot's of competition, oil exporation, you're probably going to struggle.

Cost of living is MUCH higher in the Bay Area, starting with property and continuing with pretty much everything else. Plus, of course, CA has one of the higher state income taxes.

The last company I worked for (which was big and so spent money researching such things) paid Bay Area +15% over the rates for the same jobs in Texas. The differential wasn't enough - Texans made out much better than Californians.

md95065

Yes - the various online cost of living calculators suggest that a San Francisco salary would have to be anything from 150% to 175% of a Houston salary to give an equivalent standard of living.