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Old 08-12-2011, 05:47 PM
 
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My home is in NY - specifically a sleepy Long Island suburb, which I'm sick of, since I like night life and have no kids.

I spent this past year temporarily working in Berkeley, falling in love with the industrial arts scene in Oakland. And I really dig the kinds of neighborhoods along the Berkeley / Oakland border or a little further south. Small houses, walk to shops and restaurants, can be noisy and a little gritty as long as I can walk at midnight a few blocks and won't find spray paint all over my fence or whatever.

I have no prospects to switch to a job in Berkeley, but I do have a possibility at Stanford. Unfortunately, it's hard to imagine living in the Palo Alto / Menlo Park that I've seen. Driving from SLAC at rush hour, all I can remember is the crushing back-road traffic, it seemed to take forever just to get to the taqueria, never mind getting onto the highway!

My question is, if I take a day off to drive around Palo Alto and Menlo Park to check things out, where do I go to find houses that are not in swanky suburbs, and which shopping/restaurant areas should I check out? Is there a kind of Temescal equivalent down there?

I'm thinking that the way to handle Stanford is to buy a good bike, find a place < 6 miles from work, and suck it up when I want to do things in Oakland in the evening. I could hang in traffic a few nights a week for fun stuff, but commuting from Oakland out of the East Bay as a workday routine seems beyond ridiculous.

A more crazy question, how do people find those crazy industrial arts shop-spaces (live-in or not)?
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Old 08-12-2011, 06:01 PM
 
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A more crazy question, how do people find those crazy industrial arts shop-spaces (live-in or not)?
Try checking Open Studios events (they are all over the bay area). It's really cool to get a chance to visit the inside of artist studios.
Pro Arts organizes Open Studios it for the East Bay.

Here is the site for Open Studio San Francisco.
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