I'm from the bay area, but I lived with my parent's until last year when I transferred to school in HI. It's pretty expensive to find a place like a lot of people have said. Everything is fairly close tho. I lived 20 minutes from the city, not bad at all depending on traffic. There's also BART...
Like, it doesn't show the camera screen, rather a decoy webpage that you can pretend your reading? Why yes, those do exist... Try facespy, good luck trying to aim your phone and not look like you're taking a pic tho.. hahaha
My dad works at BMW so I'm sort of keen to them haha. I loved my e36, if I needed parts it wasn't too bad. Congrats OP, bimmerforums is a great site. I wish I could afford to buy new ones. I hate buying a car and finding out what's wrong with it after the fact... Good luck with your purchase.