Can a local explain what is "wrong" with Sunset/Parkside as they are half the price? Surely there is some attraction to being able to observe the ocean, sunsets and being alongside a park?
In my experience, if you grabbed ten tech people at random, you'd find at most one person who could tell you anything at all about neighborhoods outside of the Mission and SOMA. The Googlebus picks people up from their home in those neighborhoods in the morning, and drops them off again at night. There is nothing else.
Honestly, the inner/outer richmond has better restaurants than SoMa.
[1] Not just distance. Thanks to the lack of freeways/BART, travel times to downtown are on par with being as south as Millbrae.