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This was exactly my experience living both in SOMA and in Noe Valley at two different times in San Francisco. There was never any sense that the place we lived would be the place we'd be living 5 years from then. There was no realistic chance we'd ever raise kids there.

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You echoed my thoughts exactly about Noe Valley. We absolutely loved living there, but when it came time to raise a family it wasn't even an option. That's coming from a couple who both worked at Google! Obscene indeed.

I absolutely love SF, but I never felt like home there. I think what we were missing was that sense of permanence, resulting from the high cost of housing (and therefore lack of future options).

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