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[tomh009]

It is worth a lot of foregone salary to live in a place where one can avoid the cost of a car.

At least one of the neighbours in our building is going without a car.  So is a friend who lives three blocks away.  Bicycle, bus and transit -- and car rental/share when needed. It's not as easy as in a bigger city but it certainly can be done here, too.  The biggest challenge is groceries, but Sobey's is a 20-minute walk away, and hopefully J&P will open soon, too.

And it's worth noting here that if you decide to accept a job at, say, Google, you will likely be driving.  And probably not living in a downtown environment, either.  Downtown SF to Googleplex is a two-hour commute each way, whether by car or train.  So "Google" and "SF" are really two separate conversations, even if they are only 60 km apart -- kind of like "DTK" and "Toronto".