shyt is retarded all over....but NYC prices and S.F prices are just dumb....I just don't see that as being sustainable for too long...and if you can afford that you hustling backwards too because you're just burning $$$ every month
i agree to an extent, but NYC has always been comparatively expensive during every point in time. to me, Manhattan is the only US city that warrants the premium paid to live there. there's so much to do and see (broadway, clubs, museums, etc), places to shop and eat, so many types of people and history, and tons of industry + 4 seasons.
SF being more expensive than NYC is bullshyt, the average restaurant is till closed by 10, drinks stop at 1 - nightlife is weak AF in SF, the homogeneity of the people (pretty much only whites and asians) mixed with shytty ass weather ("but we don't get snow"...yea, you also don't get sun

ol 62 degree and cloudy ass summer...) topped off with rampant homelessness (dangerous belligerent homeless folks at that)...i don't get why people are knocking themselves out to live in SF, and them running up the COL and housing shortage in the city has led to the gentrification of Oakland, another reason i won't forgive the fukk ass high prices of that city