Yes. Which is all of SF all of the damn time right now. I was doing this from Jan-August. I made no mistakes. Still moved to Oakland. You're arguing the wrong thing here. You found a cheap spot, you got lucky, good on you this doesn't work out for most other people. You're also touching on a thing that is a hella sensitive issue for a lot of people in the bay nowadays, and being rather obtuse about it, I might add.The biggest mistake people make is trying to rent when everyone else is as well.
I don't know what everyone else is doing wrong then, because my place certainly wasn't an outlier in my search. It was the best deal I found, which is why I took it, but there were plenty of other, even cheaper units I was looking at. Had I not gotten the place I did, I'm sure I would have wound up in one of the other, equally reasonably priced places I was looking at.