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by sabat 5561 days ago
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.
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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.
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
There's a downtown area? Damn I was missing out!