My partner and I are moving from a major northeast city to the Bay Area this summer and are looking for input on the commute/quality of life balance.
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posted by sidewalkchalk
on Jun 4, 2013 -
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What are the best resources/avenues/contract agencies to get hooked up with regarding getting a marketing job (digital/online) within the Bay Area (California).
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posted by pakora1
on Feb 28, 2013 -
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Hi everyone,
I am looking for recommendations for therapists in or around San Jose, CA (San Francisco would be too far) who take Kaiser insurance, or if this is even possible. I cannot change insurance, and the Kaiser therapist I talked to a year or two ago said they are allowed to prescribe medication and see patients a maximum of once a month, and I would prefer something weekly.
If anyone knows of any therapists that somehow are allowed to take Kaiser or have reasonable rates for out-of-pocket pay, I'd be very grateful. Also want to add that I don't need a specialty therapist; this is just general life ennui stuff (some days worse than others).
Thanks!
posted by madonna of the unloved
on Jan 23, 2013 -
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For those with experience in both the Vancouver and San Francisco real estate markets, how would you compare the two? Can you offer any examples of similar neighborhoods?
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posted by thewalrus
on Dec 5, 2012 -
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Please list your best, favorite, most interesting object that could be used as a unit of measure for one of the following: area, volume, or temperature. For your answer to be useful I require the object and its measure. The ideal object is unusual but relatable at the human scale.
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posted by safetyfork
on Nov 19, 2012 -
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What are your suggestions for a casual, inexpensive restaurant close to a Bart station in San Francisco?
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posted by shesbookish
on Aug 29, 2012 -
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Please give me recommendations on good Bay Area cancer treatment centers.
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posted by pluot
on Aug 15, 2012 -
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Off lease in Oakland, CA. Our landlord bumps rent 8% citing banked rents and capital improvements. Legal justification provided but how can this be challenged to lesser amount without getting courts involved?
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posted by ezekieldas
on Jul 31, 2012 -
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Cheap wine county hotels/motels/ B&B's? I am planning a romantic getaway in August. We want to check out an area 1-2 hours away from San Francisco, and preferably in Napa or Sonoma. But, if you know of other romantic weekend getaways, we are open to exploring! We have been to hot springs that were also amazing. We are on a budget, but sifting through Kayak and hotels.com is a chore and not always accurate, so we would love your recommendations. Thanks so much!
posted by tessalations999
on Jul 30, 2012 -
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Looking for cool and cheap day trips accessible from Oakland. Preferably things like hot springs, nature/hiking, cheap wineries, etc. Any recommendations? Thanks for your help!
posted by Equiprimordial
on Jun 13, 2012 -
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Bay Area Housing Filter: Partner has been offered a great job in Santa Clara (Hooray!) Where might we live that would not reduce our quality of life and/or suck up all the extra income?
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posted by paddingtonb
on Mar 16, 2012 -
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I'm looking for super-safe, reasonably nice, boring places to live in the Bay area, specifically a location that would allow me to walk to an Amtrak station and use Amtrak to commute daily to a work location that's next to the Amtrak Station in Emeryville, CA.
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posted by StrawberryPie
on Mar 7, 2012 -
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Help an older couple move to the bay area-My parents are interested in moving to the bay area and are visiting this week to check out some possibilities. Do you have recommendations for areas/communities that might be a good fit for them?
They are in their 60's and like quiet, peaceful places, natural beauty, the ocean, slower pace, and they don't have a lot of money. They are spiritual and into alternative medicine, holistic health and gardening. Thank you!
posted by tessalations999
on Feb 5, 2012 -
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We have five area managers who look after a number of sites each (about 10) spread throughout the UK.
How can I visually represent this on a map that shows the illogical (or logical) spread of their site distribution (from a distance perspective)
Sub comment: I'd also like to be able to esimate the distances travelled if they visit each site x days per year and show the most efficient site per manager. Suggestions for this would be great too.
posted by trashcan
on Jan 23, 2012 -
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Fun things to do on a Sunday in the Durham/Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC area for parents with a 17 year old son?
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posted by maxg94
on Oct 7, 2011 -
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Best practices for moving computer and printer into living area without it looking terrible?
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posted by Fairchild
on Sep 27, 2011 -
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So I've lived in beautiful San Francisco, California since 2005, but I've recently started a job down in Sunnyvale. I can take Caltrain down there, but it's an hour's trip plus half an hour on either end to get from home/work to the Caltrain station in question. This is not sustainable, so I'd like to move south. I'm 31, single, and a city boy from way back, so moving to The Suburbs gives me pause. Also, I sold the only car I've ever owned back in '05 shortly after I moved here. So I have two questions:
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posted by anonymous
on Sep 19, 2011 -
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Need new friends in Silicon Valley after a long drought. Where to begin? What works? How do I reboot my life?
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posted by veryblue1
on Sep 10, 2011 -
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Calculusfilter. A man is led to the center of a valuable field which he does not own. He coats his feet in blue paint so that his path can be traced. At dawn he begins walking. At a randomly selected time he will be told to stop walking, whereupon he will walk in a perfectly straight line back to the starting point. Then he will be given all the land that has been circumscribed by his blue path.
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posted by foursentences
on Aug 30, 2011 -
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I'm considering an apartment in the Cleveland Heights area of Oakland, CA, specifically near Hanover Ave, not far from Lake Merritt. I'm new to the area and I'm wondering what the general safety of the neighborhood is?
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posted by starpoint
on Aug 28, 2011 -
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SF Bay Area: Please recommend a school (vocational, community college, extension university, etc) for someone (age 27) to begin training for a second career in IT.
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posted by KimikoPi
on Jul 24, 2011 -
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Boston & surrounding area: What is the best neighborhood for affordable (under 400K) single family homes with a small yard?
Safe, family/kid friendly, near public transit, good schools.
posted by flesti
on Jun 2, 2011 -
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My friend and I are going on a driving tour of awesome/strange/compelling Bay Area libraries and we're looking for recommendations. The only one on the list so far is the Mills College rare books room. We're open to special libraries, public libraries, academic . . . . the only criteria is that it is not actually in San Francisco (since we have use of a car for the day we don't want to waste it on things she can access via public transportation). Recommendations?
posted by gingham
on Apr 25, 2011 -
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Posting for a friend in Tokyo who is concerned about health effects of radiation. Am seeking referrals for medical doctors in the San Francisco Bay Area who specialize in diagnosis and/or treatment of radiation exposure.
posted by Napoleonic Terrier
on Mar 23, 2011 -
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How do I find a good technical recruiter in the Bay Area? Of course, the catch is that I want to maintain my confidentiality due to current job.
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posted by anonymous
on Dec 13, 2010 -
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Can anyone recommend a talented public speaker in the NYC/Boston/Philly/DC/NJ area who can talk to our audience (an NYC non-profit usability professionals' association) about usability, who would be available from March of 2011 onwards? I'm particularly interested in finding people who specialize in designing things like cockpit controls for aircraft, nuclear plant dashboards, radar systems for the military and/or meteorological systems, and the like. I'm a big fan of author and researcher Gary Klein and have asked for his help as well. I'd be grateful for any leads. Thank you.
posted by uxplanner
on Nov 22, 2010 -
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My wife's birthday is coming up and I am looking for recommendations for a horseback riding stable in the S.F. Bay Area.
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posted by joyride
on Oct 19, 2010 -
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During a recent trip to the Mission District in San Francisco, I kept hearing a Spanish-language song with a pronounced violin section. What was it?
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posted by ciocarlia
on Sep 28, 2010 -
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I am looking for the best vintage/used-clothing store in the San Francisco Bay Area to SELL used clothes to.
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posted by serunding
on Sep 1, 2010 -
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The Bay area, a pivotal center of technology, finance, home to CAL, Stanford, and many, many literate folks does not have a semi-decent local newspaper. How and why? Can anything be done?
ps: the local "news" blogs are really no better (SFist, beyond chron, etc)
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posted by macadam9
on Mar 18, 2010 -
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Can you refer me to a non-profit industries career consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area? I am not so much looking for a headhunter but a career coach.
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 20, 2010 -
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I want to figure out how much a bunch of snow weighs. If I have a relatively even distribution of snow two-feet high and spread evenly across a twenty-four foot circle, where do I start?
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posted by bode well carapace
on Jan 13, 2010 -
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Dear Metafilter Community,
I live in a house full of roommates and I am trying to share my phone’s internet connection on our network so that everyone in the household may have an internet connection. Currently, I am capable of getting my phone to give my own computer internet access (via a Bluetooth Personal Area Netowork under ‘Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers’ in Windows 7), but I have not been able to share this internet connection using the Internet Connection Sharing feature.
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posted by thallium205
on Dec 31, 2009 -
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Is there anyone who has experience living in San Francisco and can give me advice about moving there?
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posted by bananaskin
on Dec 12, 2009 -
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Surveying 101: How is acreage measured on hilly ground? Is the acre a measure of the surface area of the ground, or of the area inside an imaginary box that is superimposed over the ground?
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posted by Orinda
on Aug 18, 2009 -
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Where can I see professional or amateur boxing and/or fighting in the Bay Area?
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posted by prior
on Aug 13, 2009 -
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New Yorkers seem to have an incredibly detailed implicit and explicit knowledge of their city. I want to know more.
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posted by milqman
on May 28, 2009 -
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Amazing girl I meet at a show gives me her phone number, but forgets to give me the area code. Main problem: I barely know anything about her - not even her name. How can I get in touch?
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posted by Risiko
on Mar 5, 2009 -
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How much US land does not fall under the jurisdiction of US laws? Diplomatic missions such as embassies and consulates enjoy
extraterritoriality, as do military bases. Is there any kind of accounting of how much land those places take up?
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posted by Plutor
on Feb 11, 2009 -
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I would like to watch
Stage 2 of the Tour of California. What can we expect? Where would the best places to spectate from?
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posted by clearly
on Feb 4, 2009 -
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Please recommend a local tax preparer in the SF Bay area (San Jose preferred). I have a fairly straightforward situation: single, 401(K), charity donations that need to be itemized and some interest income from a money market account.
posted by JDC8
on Jan 5, 2009 -
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I'm looking to get a new pair of ski boots in the SF Bay Area, preferably in the South Bay/Peninsula area. Since boot fitting isn't an exact science I'm looking for suggestions for
great, not good boot fitters.
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posted by laradar
on Jan 2, 2009 -
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