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Getting to SFO on BART is easy if you live near a station, and OAK is almost as easy (gotta transfer at least once).

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Originally Posted by freezingflyboy (Post 2029286)

If you are open to living in an urban but very "neighborhood-ey" environment then Chicago is without a doubt one of the best. Most of the neighborhoods worth looking at are an easy bus ride to the blue line or along the blue line itself. Oddly, the suburbs around O'hare are not as easily connected to the airport. Go figure.

If you are looking at the total package and not just the ride to the airport, Chicago is, without a doubt, one of the easiest cities to get around via public transit. Cheap, reliable (yes, even in the snow), efficient and reasonably clean.

ORD is probably your best bet. If you want a "Suburby" feel, you can live in Jefferson Park and actually buy a nice 3br home for $300,000. Safe area too because Edison Park, Jefferson Park and pretty much all the "parks" out towards O'Hare is where all the CPD and CFD people live, along with city workers. A requirement in Chicago, as a city worker, is you must live within the city boundaries.

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Originally Posted by CLazarus (Post 2029543)

Getting to SFO on BART is easy if you live near a station, and OAK is almost as easy (gotta transfer at least once).

Except the BART doesn't run 24 hours. The schedule:
BART Weekday Airport Service Hours
4:00 a.m. to 11:45 p.m.

BART Weekend Airport Service Hours
Sat: 6:00 a.m. to 11:45 p.m.
Sun: 8:00 a.m. to 11:45 p.m.

So if your flight gets delayed, you're spending at least $40 for an Uber. Which shouldn't be that big of a problem if your rent is already $3000/mo for a 1br

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Originally Posted by CLazarus (Post 2029543)

Getting to SFO on BART is easy if you live near a station, and OAK is almost as easy (gotta transfer at least once).

How about OAK to SFO? I end a trip in OAK on Saturday night and want to take an eastbound red eye home out of SFO.

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Originally Posted by FLY6584 (Post 2029575)

How about OAK to SFO? I end a trip in OAK on Saturday night and want to take an eastbound red eye home out of SFO.

BART station right outside terminal 1 in OAk.. No idea of the schedule or connections. But from what I've been told, very easy.

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Originally Posted by atooraya (Post 2029555)

True, however driving is a breeze during those off hours (I expect a number of other transit systems shut down as well). Like other things in the Bay Area, BART is a bit pricey - more than an hour and $10 one way from distant stations.

Fly6584 - OAK to SFO before midnight should be easy, just allow a solid hour to get there.

DFW and DAL aren't too bad. DART parking is free and it only costs $2.50 each way to ride the train in. You'll land at the A concourse at DFW and have to catch a connecting van to DAL or grab an Uber for a couple of bucks.

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Originally Posted by Macjet (Post 2029735)

I wouldn't recommend parking overnight in any of the DART parking lots. DART doesn't allow parking overnight at any of their park and ride lots except for the Parker Road Station.

I would say Detroit has the best trasnportation. Not near DTW but fly to city airport, go about 3 blocks any direction. You will be transported to a whole new world.

Narita or Haneda, both have a great public transport system....!