San Fran's rental market, which took a major spill after the dot-com bust, has regained strength--and costly price tags.

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As for the job market, bleak seems an accurate description in both cities: San Fran comes in at No. 23, while New York ranks dead last.

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Mariposa is cocooned into only a few markets right now ( New York, Chicago, Boston, San Fran, and Miami) but look for it to go nationwide in 2013.

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The cab industry is, in fact, far more technologically advanced that your average local transit system, limousine industry, or any other industry sector carrying people on the streets of San Fran.

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Its now been replicated in San Fran and London.

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Fran is describing her terrific luck in finding the apartment, falling into it, desperate, after fleeing San Francisco with Matilda and a few pieces of luggage.

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