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the importance of picking your neighborhood - by Ava

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Last year I moved back to San Francisco and ended up in the Lower Haight. I didn’t put a huge amount of thought into it. I had gone to my friend R’s housewarming a couple of months prior and noticed the area seemed nice—there were parks, which was convenient for my dog Akko, and there were several coffee shops. I looked at a couple of houses and exactly one apartment, and signed the lease a week later. During my first stint in San Francisco from 2015-2020 I lived in many different parts of the city. Since I never signed a proper lease and was usually in a group house, I was free to bounce around as much as I wanted. I’ve lived in Nob Hill, Glen Park, SoMa, Potrero Hill, NoPa, the Mission, and Cole Valley from anywhere between a month to a year. I liked most of those places perfectly fine. There were things that bothered me about them, and things that I really liked. So I was really surprised to discover that I loved my new neighborhood. I like that it’s very walkable, it’s close to the

the importance of picking your neighborhood a convo with Phil Levin, part 1 Ava Jun 05, 2024 159 15 15 Share Picture provided by Phil :) Last year I moved back to San Francisco and ended up in the Lower Haight. I didn’t put a huge amount of thought into it. I had gone to my friend R’s housewarming a couple of months prior and noticed the area seemed nice—there were parks, which was convenient for my dog Akko, and there were several coffee shops. I looked at a couple of houses and exactly one apartment, and signed the lease a week later. During my first stint in San Francisco from 2015-2020 I l

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