lochead
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I’m going to make a counter offer tomorrow. The 8% increase won’t cut it because I’m due for a step and col increases in a few months.
Job offer in Oakland
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Worth looking at the BART lines near your job and where they lead - almost assuredly better to rent outside the city and take the train, but that difference is price is going the drop the longer time goes on, because those BART-adjacent properties gonna start high-ish and get higher.
lochead
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getting around the bay is easy, really dont need a car honestlyThe position is with BART. They offer free public transportation
FruitOfTheVale
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Hey Fam. I need y’all insight. I was offered a position with an Agency in Oakland Ca. There’s an 8% bump from my current salary for the new position’s starting salary.
Any and all feedback from current and past Bay Area folks is greatly appreciated.
I know taxes are a bytch 9.3% for my bracket…
I was told gas is a mfer
If I make the move I will be renting. Any suggested areas? I know it’s gonna cost me
If I move the goal is to live near a BART station. The Agency is offing free public transportation.
I currently own a home in Annapolis, MD but work in DC.
Yeah gas is crazy rn, that might not be the biggest factor since you're looking at transit anyway though.
As far as relocating here & where, if you can afford to live near the lake its definitely more going on there than on the other sides of town. There's next to no difference in rental prices for a 1 or a 2-bedroom between Temescal/Longfellow (the bottom of North Oakland) and the lake areas. When @dora_da_destroyer says avoid downtown/uptown, I'm guessing she means JLS/Uptown which have pricier rentals than the rest of the area. I agree that you're not really gonna get much more out of those for how much you're gonna spend, you're paying for location at the end of the day and there's a lot of more affordable options right next to the lake which is where the energy is at anyway. Adams Point/Cleveland Heights/Lakeside are what I would look at, Lakeside has more low-income housing than the other two but minus some small homeless camps and early morning fukkery its pretty quiet and better-located for BART.
Its true that Oakland is highly gentrified. Gentrifiers took over the North and most of the West, and they've set up shop in the East from 5th all the way into the 40's. Houses in the lower avenues are going for 1 million+ now
That being said, Oakland still has a larger black presence than anywhere else in the Bay Area, and the cultural scene for the arts and the culture in general is more energized than anywhere else in the Bay period. As an Oakland native who runs a black film production business here, you can definitely network here and make moves, but you'll need to be prepared to deal with a lot of flaky types who will follow you on social media but little else.
dora_da_destroyer
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Disagree here. BART stations are pretty spread out once you get out of Oakland and SF, and of course in SF they only run along the east side. If you plan on spending the majority of your time in Oakland or SF, and are content with being in the same 4-5 oakland neighborhoods in Oakland’s core, then you don’t really need a car, but once you start wanting to do more - hiking, wine tasting in Napa, late dinner and drinks in SF, anything in the north bay, getting to some of the shopping or restaurants in concord, Walnut Creek, San Jose, Livermore, etc or just want freedom to get places when you you want vs shytty BART/Bus scheduling on weekends or expansive ass Ubers (Uber/Lyft in the Bay/California is on crack right now, they wanted $120-140 to go from SFO to north Oakland) , I’d consider a car.
between bart, bus, uber, rail its easy to get around. in oakland. if your in cutty spots yeah it might take longer
lochead
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Thanks for the much needed info. I currently live in Annapolis so I have to drive to DC and B-More when I want to have fun. I plan on bringing my vehicle with me if I take the position.
lochead
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Yeah gas is crazy rn, that might not be the biggest factor since you're looking at transit anyway though.
As far as relocating here & where, if you can afford to live near the lake its definitely more going on there than on the other sides of town. There's next to no difference in rental prices for a 1 or a 2-bedroom between Temescal/Longfellow (the bottom of North Oakland) and the lake areas. When @dora_da_destroyer says avoid downtown/uptown, I'm guessing she means JLS/Uptown which have pricier rentals than the rest of the area. I agree that you're not really gonna get much more out of those for how much you're gonna spend, you're paying for location at the end of the day and there's a lot of more affordable options right next to the lake which is where the energy is at anyway. Adams Point/Cleveland Heights/Lakeside are what I would look at, Lakeside has more low-income housing than the other two but minus some small homeless camps and early morning fukkery its pretty quiet and better-located for BART.
Its true that Oakland is highly gentrified. Gentrifiers took over the North and most of the West, and they've set up shop in the East from 5th all the way into the 40's. Houses in the lower avenues are going for 1 million+ now
That being said, Oakland still has a larger black presence than anywhere else in the Bay Area, and the cultural scene for the arts and the culture in general is more energized than anywhere else in the Bay period. As an Oakland native who runs a black film production business here, you can definitely network here and make moves, but you'll need to be prepared to deal with a lot of flaky types who will follow you on social media but little else.
Good looking on the info.
vibes there..