San Francisco parents may not be surprised to learn that they're paying more than their suburban counterparts, but a new report courtesy of Care.com and Zillow, childcare and real estate websites, respectively, has put an average figure on the cost differential for us to bandy about, and it's $12,560 a year.

The report's comparison, covered here by the Business Times, accounts for childcare expenses, property taxes, and housing costs in US cities and their suburbs, contrasting the two to write that "city-dwelling families nationwide spend around $9,073 more per year to cover basic housing and child care costs than ‘burb-dwelling families." That puts our differential above average, but it's a fraction of the size of the margin between New York City living with kids and the cost of raising them in the suburbs. That difference was $71,237 a year, per the report.

San Francisco made the cost/savings ranking at number five after NY, Chicago, Dallas, and DC (in that order). By contrast, there were many metropoles where living within the city proper was actually cheaper with the kids than setting up shop in the suburbs would be. Philadelphia, for example, topped that list, with suburban families paying $13,849 more, on average, than they would to raise kids in the city.

Though it's unlikely to shock Bay Area parents in the city or suburbs, much less cause anyone to run screaming in one direction or the other, the report provides some reasoning as to San Francisco's reputation as a city of adult children with no children themselves. That impression was recently borne by reporting from the New York Times in January, who named us again the most childless city in the country, an account preceded by a planning report on "the challenge of keeping families in San Francisco." Maybe provide them $12,000 or so in benefits and they'll stick around?

Related: Ask A San Francisco Native: Is It Hard To Raise A Kid In SF?

In Olivehurst, California, a Yuba County suburb North of Sacramento, one local taco truck was apparently supplementing its income with some narcotic secret menu items. According to the local paper of record, the Marysville Appeal-Democrat, the taco truck in question was stocked with over $10,000 in meth, weed and drug money. "They were dealing both tacos and drugs," said Martin Horan, commander of the local NET-5 narcotics task force.

During the sting operation hilariously dubbed "Operation Dirty Taco," agents with NET-5 stalked the rolling taco kitchen for three months like some kind of hungry foodie/meth addict after learning that crystal and weed were among the items for sale. On Wednesday, agents served warrants at four addresses connected to the taco truck, only to discover a larger network of drug trafficking going on behind the scenes.

At a home on the 4300 block of Evelyn Drive in Olivehurst — a street not unlike your typical suburban cul-de-sac — agents found four ounces of methamphetamine buried in a hole beneath a chicken coop. The 160 marijuana plants seized by the task force were also found growing out back of the chicken coop. In addition to the drugs, cops seized around $8,500 in cash — not your biggest meth operation, if Breaking Bad has taught us anything, but nothing to sneeze at in suburban Sactown.

Brothers Juan and Ernesto Paez-Olague, ages 22 and 25 respectively, were booked into the Yuba County Jail on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance for sale, possession of marijuana for sale, conspiracy and sale of drugs near a school. They are currently in custody with bail set at 50 grand apiece. 40-year-old Saturnino Rodriguez was also busted in the case, but will dodge jail time for medical reasons.

Agents told the local CBS affiliate that the tacos were not very good. Although the truck's homebase at the Taqueria El Jaliscience, where the truck is currently parked and the rest of the family may not have known what the two brothers were up to, got high marks on Yelp.

The local CBS affiliate in Sacramento has the video report:

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The couple believes the peahen may still be alive and walking around, but they seem worried about how the bird will get along with that an arrow sticking through it. As Judy told CBS, "You would expect her to lay down and die, and she’s just walking around with this thing sticking out of both sides of her."

The Reeds apparently keep the muster of peacocks on their twenty acres of property outside Vacaville because they help keep the rattlesnakes away. As an incentive to anyone who might be able to help them avenge the death of their beloved avian snake deterrent, the couple is offering a modest $500 reward for any information that leads to an arrest and conviction.

CBS5 has video from the evening news.

Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. gentrification spawned a fantastic debate amongst SFist's readers. Finally, from the sublime to the ridiculous: video of a man that confused a Board of Supes meeting with "open mic night" and sang a custom version of Madonna's "Borderline" to a much-beleaguered board member.

Phillyist has had a busy week, looking for power outlets while liveblogging the First Annual BlogPhiladelphia "unconference." (Here's day 1 and day 2 of their coverage, and a video from the event.) They also interviewed Chris Funk of the Decemberists (since those guys are in town this weekend to play with a local orchestra), reviewed that little indie film about the wizard child, and helped out with tips on how to act if you run into that annoying ex of yours. Finally, they warned the suburbs to Beware of the Blob!

For LAist, it was a week of new beginnings. Soccer Star, David Beckham, made his official move to Los Angeles just in time for LAist's Neighborhood Project, which will cover the 170+ neighborhoods in the city. They interviewed the Los Angeles Fire Department and found that they may be the most Web 2.0 savvy government office in the world. In other government fun, a bill in the state senate is being pushed through to ensure that a particular person remains in office indefinitely. Speaking of things that remain forever, you have probably seen TV shows and movies that were shot at the rickety-almost-alling-over Lacy Street Studios.

You might have Duck Tours in your city by now, Bostonist has been watching them roll the streets and rivers for years -- now there are two, and a court case. A couple weeks ago news came out that former governor, now presidential hopeful Mitt Romney strapped his dog to the roof on family vacations, now blogs have gone to the dogs. A new name for a subway stop has Bostonist coming up with their own suggestions. They said goodbye to a beloved by some, hated by others, personality. Oh, and, as usual in Boston, Sox fans believe.

After the jump: monkey business in Toronto! Dragon fruit in N.Y.C.! Naked shopworkers in London! And why shouldn't you swim in D.C.'s Potomac River?

Video of man singing Madonna's "Borderline" during a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting from CUIP-SF via SFist.

Of course the real culprit is one Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a 23 year-old U.S. Citizen. We would like to blame the freewheeling, anything-goes, if-it-feels-good-do-it mentality of people in the hellhole of amoral liberalism known as Falls Church, VA. All those pot-smoking, nudist hot-tubbers raise nothing but directionless youth who look to groups like Al Qaeda for the spiritual guidance and sense of purpose that they can't find amongst the Godless heathens known to live in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Not like our forthright young Christian households up in Marin County. Of course Abu Ali says that evidence that will be used against him was beaten out of him while he was detained in Saudi Arabia, and accused the United States of using their influence to have Saudi authorities arrest and torture him. He says he has the scars to prove it, but we're sure they're probably from some kinky orgy or naturalist healing practice that he participated in while attending school in modern day Sodom, Alexandria, Virginia.

Photo from Muslim American Society via AP.