given the talk of expensive trains, a resident would infer i live on the peninsula. bart is awful but not that pricy.
Berkeley is part of the core urban area on the other side, although as long as you don’t want to cross the bridge I’d argue east bay’s public transit has almost no value given the ubiquity of parking and abundance of freeways.
I tried transit up to berkeley once and it took 2 hours, so now i drive and my worst case time frame is 55 minutes. Bridge costs make it roughly the same as transit but at least twice as fast.
no shit about the bay bridge, though. I’ve not driven across that hellhole since 2018.