The “Full House” Tanner family lived in a gorgeous Victorian house in San Francisco with three kids, three adults and somehow made it work on the salaries of a TV host, a struggling musician and a stand-up comedian. That setup worked great for a sitcom in the 1980s and ’90s, but the math gets brutal when you apply 2025 San Francisco economics to their situation.
The question isn’t whether they’d struggle. It’s whether they could afford to live there at all without someone secretly being a millionaire. (One of them might be — after all, they lived in San Francisco! Maybe Uncle Jesse wrote a jingle for Google?) Here’s a look at how their finances measure up to the cost of living.
