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I'm trying to assemble folks for a Bay Club membership! Here's all the info upfront:

- Bay Club Executive South Membership (includes Redwood Shores and all the south bay / peninsula facilities)
- $197 per month (if we fill the pod with 8 more members), and $205 (if we just get 3 more members). There is an initiation fee which is discounted for the next 3 days of the month. Without a pod, you would be paying $290-350 a month as an adult.

If you're interested, please DM me your email address and I will add you to a Google Sheet where I'm coordinating everything!

I’m making trip in November to Tokyo and planning to take the train to Hiroshima for one night, Miyajima for one night, and then returning back to Tokyo. Wondering if this will feel too rushed or if anyone has done it before with it still feeling manageable. Thanks!

Hey everyone - my wife and I are Bay Club members and looking for up to 8 more people to join our membership (the rates are almost $100 lower per person than normal if you are in a full pod).

DM me if you’d be interested in joining! This would be for Peninsula / South Bay membership (my main clubs are FiDi SF and Redwood Shores).

Mods - this is not an ad; just trying to save people some $$ for a gym membership.

I’m making a trip to Tokyo around Thanksgiving time. We are planning for 8 nights in total. Will arrive Tokyo late, have our second night there, then the plan is Shinkansen to Hiroshima for one day/night, then Miyajima for one night, then the following morning back to Tokyo for four nights.

Is this too cramped? We’ve never been to Hiroshima and have heard wonderful things. We’ve traveled in Japan before many times, enjoy the Shinkansen etc. I just don’t want to make things way too rushed.

Thanks and any tips to make this work are appreciated!

We are a married couple living in VHCOL here are the rough numbers:

$1m annual income (with bonus and RSUs not counted). Both stable jobs but subject to changes in the broader tech market.

$2m in pre-tax brokerage accounts

$1m in combined 401k accounts

$200k in private investments (can just assume it goes to zero)

We own a $1.2m townhome we purchased for $800k in 2021 (planning to sell at the end of this year for the favorable tax treatment as we lived in it in 2022-2024). We also own a $2.9m main residence with a $1.75m mortgage 7/6 at 4.875% interest.

Annual spend is around $250k including the mortgage and taxes. Does anything about this seem risky or off? I think ideally we would no

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I am considering taking a job that requires 5 days a week in office located in the SF financial district. I live in San Mateo a short drive from the Hillsdale Caltrain station. Currently working in Redwood City. Is this a brutal commute between driving (I would have a parking spot in SF) and the Caltrain?

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Doesn’t seem that updated and is pricey relative to the area. https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Mateo/406-Heather-Ln-94403/home/745139

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A few weeks later I noticed that some of the nails are now protruding and sticking out from the underside. Also that the spots where I could previously see nailheads are now more like deeper holes. The house was mostly empty as we haven’t moved in yet but we have gone up and down the stairs a few times.

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