Bay-area bound

[trochee]

[ETA: Unlocked post now (and specifics removed); please feel free to point your Bay-area friends here!]

It's official as of Monday afternoon: we're going to the Bay Area. imtboo has been admitted to a San Francisco school for her chosen field.

School starts August 21 for her, so we'll be moving out of Seattle and down to the Bay Area in that first week of August, more or less.

I will be finishing up my dissertation at a desk in a research lab in Menlo Park. But D's school is downtown -- right by the Civic Center BART stop. Unfortunately, this means that one of us will be commuting a long way on the CalTrain and/or the BART. At the moment, it looks like it might be her, since at at least for the first semester she'll only have classes two (very full) days a week, while I'll be at ResearchLab five days a week.

Any suggestions or comments, from people who live in the Bay Area (or who have lived there) about places to live -- or to avoid? I think the East Bay is out for us -- the commute to Menlo Park is insane -- but we're considering paying more to live in the city, or paying less to live on the Peninsula. Any recommendations?

Bay Area roll call:
apollinax or bicoastal?
lunacow?
evan?
xaosenkosmos -- you've already sent us comments, thanks!
damidnara?
cleverpig?
I'm sure I've missed people in this roll-call. Anybody else?

Comments

[trochee.livejournal.com]

isn't Mountain View where the Googleplex is? so yes, things may have changed.

And thank you for connecting the dots with the various alumni-ish contacts. that's a great place to start!

[tulip-tree.livejournal.com]

Yup, Google is in Mountain View, so it's probably safe to say things have changed in that area.

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

Actually, even so, I think there may be a lot more apartment buildings in MV than in Palo Alto. There were banks and banks of them. Maybe you could find a cute mother-in-law apartment in Menlo Park... I know someone who did that. I'll send her name on to you since she's another dot to dot.