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Moved to Lafayette last spring from Noe Valley after about ten years in the city. Commuting to SoMa two days a week. Here is what I thought was going to be true vs what turned out to be true.

What I was right about: 35-40 minutes door to office on BART when it works, which is most of the time. Less expensive than I expected when you factor out the cost of owning a car in SF.

What I got wrong: parking at Lafayette station fills by 7:30 and there is genuinely no good overflow option close by. If I don't leave by 7:15 I'm driving to Orinda station instead. Also I underestimated how much of my lifestyle was proximity-based in the city. None of that is gone, it just requires a car and planning.

School quality is as advertised.

our mobile checkout conversion was about half of deskopt. fullstoy couldn´t tell us why.

the recordings on budget android devices, which is most of our user base, were too inconsistent to investigate the gap properly. sessions would drop mid-checkout or not appear at all. the analysis we could do was limited to the flagship device sessions that actually captured, which aren´t representative of users experiencing the problem.

six weeks of parallel testing across fullstory, logrocket, contestquare, and uxcam. logrocket ruled itself out early because every checkout investigation kept pulling toward technical debugging rather than behavioral patterns. contentquare ruled itself out on princing.

the finding that changed things came from uxcam during production testing. the AI flagged a layout issue on smaller android screens where one of our checkout fields was pushing the primary action below fold. invisible in fullstory because those sessions weren´t capturing completely. fullstory was effectively showing us a pictory of the users who weren´t having the problem while missing the users who were

one layout fix and mobile checkout improved meaningfully.

fullstory is stronger on web recording quality and the web side us thinner in uxcam. if web was a larger part of our product the tradeoff would be harder. at 85% mobile it wasn´t a hard call.

Working remote from cdmx 4 months this year. US-based salary deposits to chase. Opened a bbva mexico account last visit so i could pay locally without eating conversion fees on every coffee and uber.

The “push to my own bbva flow” works through taptapsend on the us to mexico corridor. No transfer fee, rate a few pesos better than wise at sub-$1,000 amounts, lands within 30 minutes. Funded from chase checking. 

Wise has a multi-currency account option where you can hold USD and MXN balances in the same wise account. Convert at mid market when rates are favorable, SPEI from wise's mxn balance to your own bbva for free. Different mental model from taptapsend's send-and-forget but useful if you want to time conversions.

For my use case (push $1,500 monthly to my own bbva, spend locally) taptapsend is simpler. Push, land, swipe. Wise is more powerful for someone managing larger balances or wanting flexibility on conversion timing.

Schwab debit (zero ATM fees worldwide, no foreign transaction fees) is the third tool worth knowing about. For small daily spends at restaurants or transit i sometimes just use schwab and skip the bbva account entirely. Hybrid setup.

Anyone else nomading in cdmx with US salary and a local bbva? What's your weekly cash flow look like?

I've been trying to find CPR classes near Alameda and I keep running into two categories of results: cheap online courses that let you print a certificate the same day, and in-person options that are either hard to schedule or require driving pretty far. I need this for a job requirement and my employer specifically mentioned the card needs to be from the American Heart Association, so the print-at-home options are already off the table.

I've looked at a few options around the East Bay and this is what I found for anyone else in the same situation:

Local community classes: Alameda and Oakland community organizations run occasional CPR sessions at low or no cost, scheduling is inconsistent and they fill up quickly when they do run, so hard to rely on if you have a specific deadline.

Red Cross: solid option with East Bay locations, course structure is slightly different from AHA BLS but widely accepted, worth checking their schedule since availability varies by week and location.

Safety Training Seminars: AHA authorized training center with Bay Area locations including the East Bay, classes run daily and the hybrid format means the in-person skills check is around 30 to 40 mins rather than a full day, which helps if your schedule is tight.

If your employer is specifically asking for an AHA card rather than just any CPR cert, the key thing to look for is whether the provider is an AHA authorized training center, that determines whether the card is issued by the American Heart Association or just references AHA standards.