WTF happened to my beloved city over the past twenty years?
Okay, it’s nice, but $5K a month?!
When I left SF in 2002, I was paying $1300 for a very nice 60s-era one bedroom place on Twin Peaks with a view of downtown, and even that was a stretch financially.
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I lived in a Victorian like the one pictured on Herrman St. behind the Market St. Safeway, then to an apartment on Potrero Hill, and then at Fox Plaza on Market St. (Sending a photo to Mark under separate cover). That Studio Apartment was on the 16th floor and facing the skyline, Ferry Building and The Bay Bridge. In 1985 when I moved in, it was around $550.00 per month. I looked it up today, and it now would rent at $3,109.00 per month. I could never live in the city I loved ever again; and I’m glad I was there at the time I was!
“I could never live in the city I loved ever again; and I’m glad i was there at the time I was!”
My thoughts exactly. I almost wrote those exact words.
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$1,300 in 2002 is equivalent in purchasing power to approximately $2,386.20 in May 2026. This represents a total increase of $1,086.20, or an 83.55% rise in prices. Over this period, the average annual inflation rate was 2.56%, meaning a dollar in 2002 bought 83.55% more than it does today.
Key Points on 2002 Inflation Purchasing Power:
A dollar in 2002 has the same buying power as about $1.84 today.Alternative Value: Using PCE inflation data, the value is closer to $2,230.60.Context: Prices roughly doubled for many goods and services over the past 24 years.
Based on data from in2013dollars.com.
WeHo isn’t much better.