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You can easily find a bedroom in Palo Alto for $1500 (maybe not right downtown, maybe as part of a bigger house/apartment, but a bedroom to yourself). It seems like ~1k is still achievable if you're patient and any part of PA will do. And it only gets cheaper if you're willing to go to Mountain View (only a bit cheaper), Redwood City, or really any other part of the peninsula.

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No,you can't. I assure you as someone who lives down here than downtown PA is very expensive, as is Mountain view - a decent 1b is 1,700 at least if not more.the peninsula is cheaper in our places - not PA/ MV

In Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area rents for 1BR's are approaching 2K. So I find it hard to believe that MV PA is $1500.

He said a "bedroom", not an apartment. That actually seems high to me - if you're willing to live with roommates you can find plenty of places for around $1K/month, or even a bit less.

Mountain View rents for a 1BR are running around $1700/month in a not-so-great neighborhood, or about $2k/month if you're close to the Googleplex or downtown (except for a few smaller family-owned apartments...owner-rented places tend to have smaller rent increases than manager-rented places, since usually a family just wants to find a good tenant and have them stick around rather than take the risk of getting a bad tenant).

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