Great place if you can afford it
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11/30/2005
I've lived in Oakland for 10 years. It is one of the most $$$ places to live in the US.
Yes we have great weather and it is beautiful, but it gets to be more and more expensive to live here every year.
The housing costs on this site for Oakland are woefully outdated.
The average cost of a home in Oakland when I moved here in 1996 was $350,000. That is without the bids over the asking price. The bids over asking price at the time ranged from $5,000-10,000 over the asking price.
Now the average cost of a home in Oakland is $750,000 without the bids over asking price. I don't even want to know what the range over asking price is these days for a house.
With housing costs being what they are and the Oakland school district being what it is (Awful), I don't know how anyone can afford to live here and have a family/raise a child in private school.
California just keeps getting more and more $$$. I don't know if it is worth it anymore.
beth | Oakland, CA