A Local’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area

🏠 Discover the best places to live in the SF Bay Area with Spencer Hsu, your Bay Area native and real estate expert!

In this video, we'll explore San Francisco, Marin County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Alameda County (East Bay), and Contra Costa County. Learn why Bay Area home prices are the way they are, and get insider tips on commuting in the Bay Area. 🚗

We'll also help you find the perfect city to call home based on your unique criteria. Don't miss out on these valuable insights!

00:00 Introduction
00:17 Bay Area Overview
01:55 San Francisco
07:00 Marin County
08:32 San Mateo County
11:00 Santa Clara County
13:06 East Bay (Alameda County)
14:27 Contra Costa County
17:15 Bay Area Home Prices
18:37 Bay Area Commutes

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Spencer Hsu is a Bay Area Real Estate Agent, a Residential, New Home Construction and Relocations specialist with eXp Realty LLC. Serving the entire Bay Area. He aims to help busy professionals in the Bay Area tech industry find their dream homes by leveraging tech, data and local insights.

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[reidyoshida]

Great video Spencer. Incredibly informative. Love your take on each area.
Stay awesome and keep up the great video🙌

[OceanfrontChalet]

Hi Spencer, Love the podcast (my normal method of listening). In this video and your other recent videos delving into individual cities, you asked what cities your listeners would like you to cover. I would love to hear your take on Sausalito, Mill Valley, Tiburon and Belvedere. Thanks.

[keyone]

I live in Contra Costa, I hop on the BART in Lafayette station and get off in Downtown San Francisco, not too bad for a commute. But I will only focus on downtown SF jobs or remote jobs. Can't drive 2 hours to get a job in Santa Clara County for example :D

[DrWenChannel]

Please do a deeper dive on San Francisco. Thanks!

[marceloleon]

I work in the mid peninsula (redwood shores) and a year ago I moved to Vallejo as a homeowner. I personally think that the real state industry is really missing big letting this city out of the scope of big tech workers as myself, it has so much potential that's being eaten by bad rep. There are huge & very nice homes around here for pennys compared to the rest of the bay and the commute to SF is doable with a flexible work schedule. I personally own a motorcycle and commute twice a week to my work place at rush hour. It takes me about an hour, but I agree that's not something most people are willing to do.

[OceanluvOC]

Friends of mine recently moved from San Francisco to San Diego. Houses are slightly more affordable but prices there are much higher now. They decided not to stay in SF area due to all the crime that has affected them. They didn’t want to go inland because it’s too hot and San Diego coastal has nice weather. Never gets hot and gets fog and marine layer. I love Marin but you really pay a high price to live there. My roots are in the Bay Area but I’m in Dana Point and I really like it! Far enough from LA and much nicer! One day I’d like to move north but I have to be coastal.

[AR-rnok]

Walnut Creek. 15 miles east. Warm weather and for the price of the SF home, you get lots of land and a pool. Plus schools are rated 10

[felixthecat]

Thanks man I never knew what “the Bay Area “ consisted of 👍🏾

[alexmariemartin]

Looking to move to San Fran area and want the ability to walk to a train station that has some culture / nightlife and not far from wilderness (2 hrs or less).. me and my girlfriend are in the social work industry and are renting a place for 1400$ in st Pete Florida. Do you know any cities that could fit a $1600 budget for a studio / 1bd where I could easily get to San Fran or Berkeley, a neighborhood that is cheap to live in?

[alexandersushko]

One year later, downtown San Jose has become a ghost town

[MilochanzyVR]

Great video Spencer. I'm looking to move to California with a job opportunity in Burlingame. We are family of 3 with 5.5 year old kid. What is the good place to move for good commute time to office, great schools, and still affordable renting. May be consider buying a home but it's least of the priority for now.

[nimaiiikun]

if I work in downtown Oakland, where should I live nearby that's safe for families and kids? also maybe with a lot of asian-american communities?

[daviddong]

I work in SF for a tech company and make 400K (TC) a year. Instead of living in SF and pay $3000/month rent, I live 15 miles southeast of SF and only pay $750/month for a 1B1b private suite in a 3B3b Town home built in 2010 in San Leandro since 2015

[nothinleader]

Are there neighborhoods where the nightlife is good? I've visited SF a few times a year for the past couple years and the nightlife is really dead. The nature is great but having lived in the area for a while it does get old. I'm still trying to figure out what the lifestyle in SF people are talking about is as I want to move there but every time I visit I'm just let down.

[LMiraculous]

I’m moving to San Francisco I know what neighborhood I want to live in

[markn]

Did this man just say Orinda, Lafayette, Walnut Creek, Alamo, and Danville are affordable?

[corsair]

Marin = New England by the Bay. Parochialism abounds with higher household incomes, higher levels of education, higher ratio of private/exclusive schools and heavy support of NIMBYism with many land trusts and other protected properties.

No North Bay love:...? With the South Bay and East Bay getting over-priced, lots of first-time home owner/commuters in Novato, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Vallejo, Fairfield and Vacaville.

[karenwaddell]

Alameda, Alameda County, ca 95401 please

[alext]

Appreciate the info but the bay is just way too expensive for what you get in return. Went to Dublin 4 years back for a 40 year old townhouse with a shared backyard and brick wall in the living room for $850K. Yeah no thanks lol