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Old 07-02-2011, 10:35 PM
 
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Hi All,
I am a management consultant and will relocate from Melbourne to the bay area in August with my family (stay-at-home mom and 2 y/o daughter). We are looking for something affordable not too far from Sillicon Valley as that is where most clients for my company are located (although I expect to be travelling quite a bit across West Coast as well due to the "nature" of my job).
We are looking for a 2 BR place with a pool and outside area (preferably close to shops, restaurants, airport, CAL or BART station and park in the area for my wife and daughter to hang out during the week) and we definitely don't plan to spend a lot more than $1800-$2000 a month on rent, in order to also have some money left to do anything fun in weekends.

Could anyone advise on best 'family friendly' areas to live around San Jose/Peninsula/East Bay which would hopefully help meet our requirements. So far we haven't been lucky, after numerous searches on craigslist and typical 'apartment living' websites. The other option we are currently assessing is to set up shop in Sacramento (i.e. more value for money) as most of my work is project based and across clients in California anyway.

Appreciate your advice on both options!

Thanks,
Martin
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Old 07-03-2011, 03:46 AM
 
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The Silicon Valley area is very expensive and I don't think you'll find many nice places to live for around $2000 or less. How far can you be from there, like an hour? 2 hours? (since Sacramento is like 3 hours from there) The Walnut Creek, Pleasanton and Fremont areas could work. Fremont would be an ok commute to Silicon Valley, the other areas less so, especially Walnut Creek which would be really rough.

Maybe check these threads for some info:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/san-f...-east-bay.html

http://www.city-data.com/forum/san-f...an-advice.html

Also ask on the San Jose board for Silicon Valley advice but again I think it might be out of your price range.
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