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Old 05-25-2021, 11:56 AM
 
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I recently got an offer from Google and am moving to Mountain View.
I am looking for apartments that are not too costly. I am good with a $1000/month rent.
I can share an existing apartment.
Could anyone suggest where to look?
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Old 05-25-2021, 12:40 PM
 
Location: San Francisco, CA
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I am good with a $1000/month rent.
I can share an existing apartment.
Good thing you are willing to share. You can't live on your own here for $1K/month. Most people use Craigslist to find apartment shares. You might want to spend a little more to avoid having to share a room in addition to sharing an apartment.
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Old 05-25-2021, 12:49 PM
 
Location: Full Time: N.NJ Part Time: S.CA, ID
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I am good with a $1000/month rent.
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Old 05-25-2021, 11:07 PM
 
Location: Corona del Mar, CA - Coronado, CA
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Good thing you are willing to share. You can't live on your own here for $1K/month. Most people use Craigslist to find apartment shares. You might want to spend a little more to avoid having to share a room in addition to sharing an apartment.
Share a room, heck $1,000 a month is sharing a bed territory.
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Old 05-26-2021, 09:06 AM
 
Location: State of Transition
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OP, Google employees with your budget live in the parking lot in their cars/vans/camper trucks/whatever. Even renting a room in a shared apartment would cost more, but look at Craigslist under "shares" and see what you find. Maybe Google should rent a warehouse and set up sleeping cages for its employees, like they have in Hong Kong.
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Old 05-26-2021, 12:02 PM
 
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I recently got an offer from Google and am moving to Mountain View.
I am looking for apartments that are not too costly. I am good with a $1000/month rent.
I can share an existing apartment.
Could anyone suggest where to look?
The good thing is there are no shortage of nice neighborhoods surrounding Google. The bad news is they are usually quite expensive. Here is my experience when I worked at Palo Alto.

Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Menlo Park cost an arm and a leg to live there. So I'd skipped them. Stay away from East Palo Alto; no, EPA is not the same as PA.

North of Menlo Park is only just slightly less costly. So basically almost the entire Peninsula was out of my budget.

I found Sunnyvale to have the best combo of price and distance; and this is where I ended up living for a couple of years. But it's getting expensive fast.

For those on a budget, they usually live in the East Bay or San Jose. For East Bay, check out Fremont, Newark, and Milpitas.

You may get more responses in the San Jose forum.

Welcome to the bay.

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