Can You Afford To Be Comfortable In San Francisco? I Researched It And Here’s What The Numbers Have To Say

Taking into account this breakdown, I took it upon myself to see what the delivery prices are in the city using Uber Eats. Here is the breakdown:

Uber Eats:

• Wingstop delivery in 15-30 mins in Downtown San Francisco
• Order: $21.67
• Delivery fee: $0.49
• Taxes: $7.75
• Total: $29.91 

Now if you were to cook one meal for the day, assuming the bare minimum ingredients required, this is how much one would spend on groceries from Costco Wholesale:

• $7 for free-range eggs
• $24 for Kirkland Chicken thighs
• $8 for Cauliflour and Broccoli florets each ($16)
• $20 for Basmati rice
• Total: $67

But what would the actual cost for just that one meal of chicken fried rice?

• Say you used two eggs from the dozen tray for the fried rice, it would come up to roughly $1.20.
• You used two chicken thighs, it comes up to half a packet. This would round up to $6.
• If you used half a cauliflower and broccoli, the total of each half would be $4.
• Finally, for the fried rice, if you used 1 cup from the pound of rice you bought, it would cost $4.

So the total of that one meal for the day would actually cost you: $15. This would, of course, increase or decrease depending on the food you cook, the veggies you need, the quantity, and which store you visit. If you buy from Whole Foods, it may be more expensive.

Hypothetically considering that I have ordered from these apps for lunch, and groceries reuqired for one meal, living in downtown San Francisco, the money I’d spend in total on food is $44.91—which is within the $50 range as mentioned in the thread above, but reasonable given grocery shopping. If we were to add in the random snacks, drinks, and total grocery budget, it might just exceed well beyond $150.

Now, let’s move on to the miscelleanous expenses (phone data, grooming, activities):