your points are all well taken, and there's too much going on at NBL for me to have anything to say that's any more constructive than this: San Bruno is a suburb - and not an especially interesting one - immediately south of San Francisco. It's between South San Francisco ("The Industrial City") and Colma ("City of the Dead"). San Bruno gets no parenthetical enquoted nickname. And "starter" means you need to do a lot of work to it, just to have a crappy house in an ugly neighborhood directly under the SFO flight path.

damn I hate renting...except for the alternative...