San Francisco is great.  However, I have serious doubts that you'll want to pay for a three bedroom apartment and deal with parking for three cars.  Cost being a factor, I wouldn't recommend SF.<p>On that note, why do you need three bedrooms?  Why do you need three cars?  If you could cut your expenses down to two bedrooms and perhaps one car, you might have more luck finding a reasonable place in the city.  Since you're just out of college, I'd imagine that you're used to college style living -- is that an unsafe assumption?