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I think someone else mentioned it, but BART doesn't go to Redwood City. Caltrain does. As a daily BART rider from the East Bay, occasionally needing to be in Palo Alto, I don't recommend combining a BART and Caltrain commute. If you want to live in SF, and commute to Redwood City, your best bet is to ride the 8:44 or 8:59 baby bullets on Caltrain. The one at 8:59 gets you in Redwood City in a scant 30 minutes. Pick a…
http://housingmaps.com/ is the granddaddy of them all. IIRC, it was one of the first such mashup apps with the newly launched Google Maps API (well, it was one of the first to become popular, at least (for the pedantic crowd who hasn't had their morning coffee yet ;-) ) ) Also: Redwood City is in the Peninsula (i.e. directly South of San Francisco). BART does not serve RWC; Caltrain does. Assuming you meant Caltrain,…
You don't have get an apartment in SF if you'll be working in RWC. Remember: SF is not the Bay Area. The Bay Area is a large metropolitan area with three major cities. You'll be working about halfway between two of them (SF and San Jose). You might very well want to stay in Mtn View or Palo Alto -- much more hip in the tech sense than SF.
I was going to recommend the South Bay, but I wouldn't say MV/PA since Santa Clara is right there and much cheaper in my experience in terms of rent.
This is what I did when I was in the city for an internship last summer and again when I moved to the city in January.
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I was going to recommend the South Bay, but I wouldn't say MV/PA since Santa Clara is right there and much cheaper in my experience in terms of rent.
The South Bay is certainly cheaper but has no where the amount of culture and fun that living in Mountain View and Palo Alto has. If you're only in the Bay Area for 3 months, I'd shell out some more dough to live in SF or PA rather than be bored in San Jose.
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The South Bay is certainly cheaper but has no where the amount of culture and fun that living in Mountain View and Palo Alto has. If you're only in the Bay Area for 3 months, I'd shell out some more dough to live in SF or PA rather than be bored in San Jose.
Oh, right, forgot about San Jose. Guess that shows how much time I spent there. But I definitely meant the MV/PA area; Santa Clara is 5-10 minutes from Mountain View, if that.
I think someone else mentioned it, but BART doesn't go to Redwood City. Caltrain does. As a daily BART rider from the East Bay, occasionally needing to be in Palo Alto, I don't recommend combining a BART and Caltrain commute. If you want to live in SF, and commute to Redwood City, your best bet is to ride the 8:44 or 8:59 baby bullets on Caltrain. The one at 8:59 gets you in Redwood City in a scant 30 minutes. Pick a…
http://www.caltrain.com/riderinfo/Proposed_Service_Changes.h...
I stayed in motels as I got to know the area and decided where I wanted to commit to staying. Some offer weekly rates that are competitive with local rents. Sequoia Inn was nice, and it's in Redwood City:
Padmapper.com puts listings on a map, and includes a lot of useful features like remembering listings you've already viewed.
Thanks for the suggestion. Padmapper indeed is pretty great, but the one problem I'm having is that most of the listings are for 12 month leases (or similar). Is there anyway to narrow the results to just sublets or listings just over the summer?
I'm looking to stay in Berkeley from mid May to August so I've been browsing padmapper and this made the searches much more efficient.
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Oh, right, forgot about San Jose. Guess that shows how much time I spent there. But I definitely meant the MV/PA area; Santa Clara is 5-10 minutes from Mountain View, if that.
Opposite direction than PA/SF, and a snoozeworthy downtown area to boot. :P