Do you absolutely need to live in Palo Alto itself? PA is very expensive due to its proximity to not only the big tech companies like Google, Facebook and others, but it borders with Stanford, causing it to be incredibly expensive for what you get. I live in San Francisco and pay quite a bit, but honestly, compared to living in downtown PA, they're fairly close. Also, for the love of God don't live in East Palo Alto. You will get shot. Use mapliv.com (or a similar site) to find good deals.
Food/utilities/etc:
I rarely cook for myself anymore (job perk) but I remember spending around 200-300$ a month on food when I lived in San Jose with a worse job. Utilities never ran me more than 50$ a month by myself. Cable/internet will run you more, baseline usually around 70-80$ combined.
Mass transit is... eh. Not great in my opinion. Cal-Train is not always on time, sometimes just cancels trains, can be awful. Busses in the south bay are alright. Salvageable. I would just suggest driving because it's easy. Neville will disagree. You shouldn't need to worry about BART and such because you're looking so far south.
Do you absolutely need to live in Palo Alto itself? PA is very expensive due to its proximity to not only the big tech companies like Google, Facebook and others, but it borders with Stanford, causing it to be incredibly expensive for what you get. I live in San Francisco and pay quite a bit, but honestly, compared to living in downtown PA, they're fairly close. Also, for the love of God don't live in East Palo Alto. You will get shot. Use mapliv.com (or a similar site) to find good deals.
Food/utilities/etc:
I rarely cook for myself anymore (job perk) but I remember spending around 200-300$ a month on food when I lived in San Jose with a worse job. Utilities never ran me more than 50$ a month by myself. Cable/internet will run you more, baseline usually around 70-80$ combined.
Mass transit is... eh. Not great in my opinion. Cal-Train is not always on time, sometimes just cancels trains, can be awful. Busses in the south bay are alright. Salvageable. I would just suggest driving because it's easy. Neville will disagree. You shouldn't need to worry about BART and such because you're looking so far south.
While I am a dual citizen with Canada, I can't offer you any advice on the duality of taxes and such there.
Thanks for the info. Strictly speaking, no I don't actually have to be in Palo Alto, I just don't really drive, so unless there's somewhat reliable regional transit between the cities it would get difficult
And it is an engineering job, I'm just trying to figure out how much to add to my current salary to maintain my current real income, so I can judge any offers
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My boss just basically told me I needed to work more or get fired
"I know you have personal issues but other people here have kids too"
Yeah, and their kids are old enough to watch themselves, or they have wives that don't work
I'll just hire an after-school babysitter with all the money I don't have so I can stay at work longer, and I guess the sitter will also be cooking us dinner and cleaning the house
My boss just basically told me I needed to work more or get fired
"I know you have personal issues but other people here have kids too"
Yeah, and their kids are old enough to watch themselves, or they have wives that don't work
I'll just hire an after-school babysitter with all the money I don't have so I can stay at work longer, and I guess the sitter will also be cooking us dinner and cleaning the house
Im assuming the kid isnt old enough for something like preschool or some kind of after school program?
Or possibly a split shift or work from home solution? Dunno what you do but maybe something those line.
That is if you really like/want to keep your job.
Could just try and find another, more accommodating workplace.
Now that I'm set up a little, I started the email bombs today... starting with game companies that might need an Audio/Music Production/Music composition team member around Vancouver. After that if no fish have bit it's on to performance/production at the studios, then theaters, then orchestras, then bars, restaurants, and clubs, then stores and whoever might possibly hire me.
Already got one rejection, but it was just because there weren't any positions available, and they said they'd contact me about future opportunities. So far I'm midway through the E's. Of course part of that is that I'm sending applications with personalized cover letters and resumes to pretty much anyone that can be contacted, even if they don't list any open audio positions. Thank god for my little war chest from ships that gives me a little breathing room.
Anyone here know of anyone who needs, like, anything musical in or near Vancouver?
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Do you absolutely need to live in Palo Alto itself? PA is very expensive due to its proximity to not only the big tech companies like Google, Facebook and others, but it borders with Stanford, causing it to be incredibly expensive for what you get. I live in San Francisco and pay quite a bit, but honestly, compared to living in downtown PA, they're fairly close. Also, for the love of God don't live in East Palo Alto. You will get shot. Use mapliv.com (or a similar site) to find good deals.
Food/utilities/etc:
I rarely cook for myself anymore (job perk) but I remember spending around 200-300$ a month on food when I lived in San Jose with a worse job. Utilities never ran me more than 50$ a month by myself. Cable/internet will run you more, baseline usually around 70-80$ combined.
Mass transit is... eh. Not great in my opinion. Cal-Train is not always on time, sometimes just cancels trains, can be awful. Busses in the south bay are alright. Salvageable. I would just suggest driving because it's easy. Neville will disagree. You shouldn't need to worry about BART and such because you're looking so far south.
Do you absolutely need to live in Palo Alto itself? PA is very expensive due to its proximity to not only the big tech companies like Google, Facebook and others, but it borders with Stanford, causing it to be incredibly expensive for what you get. I live in San Francisco and pay quite a bit, but honestly, compared to living in downtown PA, they're fairly close. Also, for the love of God don't live in East Palo Alto. You will get shot. Use mapliv.com (or a similar site) to find good deals.
Food/utilities/etc:
I rarely cook for myself anymore (job perk) but I remember spending around 200-300$ a month on food when I lived in San Jose with a worse job. Utilities never ran me more than 50$ a month by myself. Cable/internet will run you more, baseline usually around 70-80$ combined.
Mass transit is... eh. Not great in my opinion. Cal-Train is not always on time, sometimes just cancels trains, can be awful. Busses in the south bay are alright. Salvageable. I would just suggest driving because it's easy. Neville will disagree. You shouldn't need to worry about BART and such because you're looking so far south.
These questions may also be better answered by moriveth janson simben "everyone else in the south bay but not santa cruz that's not the south bay you jerks".
While I am a dual citizen with Canada, I can't offer you any advice on the duality of taxes and such there.
I'm assuming you meant me because Simben totally lives in Canada.
But yeah @Phyphor, it's expensive here. Rents are crazy.
Where specifically is the company you're interested in? You post in the programming thread so I'm assuming you're getting a tech job. Most of them will pay you enough to be able to afford to live here. And by "here", I don't really mean Palo Alto because it's crazy expensive compared to even everything elsewhere.
If the job is actually in Palo Alto, then you can look at Mountain View, Menlo Park, Redwood City, or Sunnyvale. (You can look even farther if you want as well, depending on how you feel about commuting versus your rent payments.) VTA sucks and I've never used it, and the light rail doesn't run to Palo Alto anyway. If you live and work within walking distance of a station you can take Caltrain. Otherwise you're going to need a car, and really I couldn't imagine not having a car unless I lived in worked in San Francisco, which is really the only area here with dense enough transit networks and local enough shops to make it possible.
Utilities depend entirely on what sort of things you want. I have TV and Internet which costs money but probably about as much as it does anywhere else. Water is currently included in my rent so I can't judge that (this is common with most apartment complexes built before 1990, which here is most of them). PG&E sucks ass and electricity and gas are expensive, though my roommate currently pays the bills so I don't know exactly what they cost right now. (The one upside of Palo Alto (or Santa Clara) is that they have co-op electric utilities which are cheaper and more reliable than PG&E.)
I guess I should say something positive about here. Well, um, the weather's nice? Also like I said with a tech job they will be aware of things like cost of living and you should be compensated accordingly.
Do you absolutely need to live in Palo Alto itself? PA is very expensive due to its proximity to not only the big tech companies like Google, Facebook and others, but it borders with Stanford, causing it to be incredibly expensive for what you get. I live in San Francisco and pay quite a bit, but honestly, compared to living in downtown PA, they're fairly close. Also, for the love of God don't live in East Palo Alto. You will get shot. Use mapliv.com (or a similar site) to find good deals.
Food/utilities/etc:
I rarely cook for myself anymore (job perk) but I remember spending around 200-300$ a month on food when I lived in San Jose with a worse job. Utilities never ran me more than 50$ a month by myself. Cable/internet will run you more, baseline usually around 70-80$ combined.
Mass transit is... eh. Not great in my opinion. Cal-Train is not always on time, sometimes just cancels trains, can be awful. Busses in the south bay are alright. Salvageable. I would just suggest driving because it's easy. Neville will disagree. You shouldn't need to worry about BART and such because you're looking so far south.
These questions may also be better answered by moriveth janson simben "everyone else in the south bay but not santa cruz that's not the south bay you jerks".
While I am a dual citizen with Canada, I can't offer you any advice on the duality of taxes and such there.
I'm assuming you meant me because Simben totally lives in Canada.
But yeah @Phyphor, it's expensive here. Rents are crazy.
Where specifically is the company you're interested in? You post in the programming thread so I'm assuming you're getting a tech job. Most of them will pay you enough to be able to afford to live here. And by "here", I don't really mean Palo Alto because it's crazy expensive compared to even everything elsewhere.
If the job is actually in Palo Alto, then you can look at Mountain View, Menlo Park, Redwood City, or Sunnyvale. (You can look even farther if you want as well, depending on how you feel about commuting versus your rent payments.) VTA sucks and I've never used it, and the light rail doesn't run to Palo Alto anyway. If you live and work within walking distance of a station you can take Caltrain. Otherwise you're going to need a car, and really I couldn't imagine not having a car unless I lived in worked in San Francisco, which is really the only area here with dense enough transit networks and local enough shops to make it possible.
Utilities depend entirely on what sort of things you want. I have TV and Internet which costs money but probably about as much as it does anywhere else. Water is currently included in my rent so I can't judge that (this is common with most apartment complexes built before 1990, which here is most of them). PG&E sucks ass and electricity and gas are expensive, though my roommate currently pays the bills so I don't know exactly what they cost right now. (The one upside of Palo Alto (or Santa Clara) is that they have co-op electric utilities which are cheaper and more reliable than PG&E.)
I guess I should say something positive about here. Well, um, the weather's nice? Also like I said with a tech job they will be aware of things like cost of living and you should be compensated accordingly.
It's at Google, they're trying to recruit me it seems. The cities in there look like they run together, just a few km apart; I just picked a nearby one that showed up when zoomed out. Any one of that cluster would be fine, worst case, under 10km I can probably bike it (maybe, do you have bike lanes down there?)
I'm glad I brought my laptop in today because its freezing in here despite it being scorching outside. That little bit of heat from the battery is keeping me going. Not quite the same to work from, but its not an issue.
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Have not posted in here in a while but im still unemployed and looking for work. But today i received 2 bizarre replies. The first one is for a commission based home improvement job. I do not recall applying for this, and all of these jobs seem to be scams.
The 2nd was not really a job offer, but an apology from my old boss who fired me. He is apologizing for letting me go and asking to network with me on linkedin. He is openly admitting fault and saying he feels bad about it. He is saying that my replacement isn't working out and he feels bad about that too. What the fuck? This was sent at 2AM, so im assuming he was drunk or something? If i read this out of context it would read like he broke up with me and wants to get back together after sleeping around.
Do you absolutely need to live in Palo Alto itself? PA is very expensive due to its proximity to not only the big tech companies like Google, Facebook and others, but it borders with Stanford, causing it to be incredibly expensive for what you get. I live in San Francisco and pay quite a bit, but honestly, compared to living in downtown PA, they're fairly close. Also, for the love of God don't live in East Palo Alto. You will get shot. Use mapliv.com (or a similar site) to find good deals.
Food/utilities/etc:
I rarely cook for myself anymore (job perk) but I remember spending around 200-300$ a month on food when I lived in San Jose with a worse job. Utilities never ran me more than 50$ a month by myself. Cable/internet will run you more, baseline usually around 70-80$ combined.
Mass transit is... eh. Not great in my opinion. Cal-Train is not always on time, sometimes just cancels trains, can be awful. Busses in the south bay are alright. Salvageable. I would just suggest driving because it's easy. Neville will disagree. You shouldn't need to worry about BART and such because you're looking so far south.
These questions may also be better answered by moriveth janson simben "everyone else in the south bay but not santa cruz that's not the south bay you jerks".
While I am a dual citizen with Canada, I can't offer you any advice on the duality of taxes and such there.
I'm assuming you meant me because Simben totally lives in Canada.
But yeah @Phyphor, it's expensive here. Rents are crazy.
Where specifically is the company you're interested in? You post in the programming thread so I'm assuming you're getting a tech job. Most of them will pay you enough to be able to afford to live here. And by "here", I don't really mean Palo Alto because it's crazy expensive compared to even everything elsewhere.
If the job is actually in Palo Alto, then you can look at Mountain View, Menlo Park, Redwood City, or Sunnyvale. (You can look even farther if you want as well, depending on how you feel about commuting versus your rent payments.) VTA sucks and I've never used it, and the light rail doesn't run to Palo Alto anyway. If you live and work within walking distance of a station you can take Caltrain. Otherwise you're going to need a car, and really I couldn't imagine not having a car unless I lived in worked in San Francisco, which is really the only area here with dense enough transit networks and local enough shops to make it possible.
Utilities depend entirely on what sort of things you want. I have TV and Internet which costs money but probably about as much as it does anywhere else. Water is currently included in my rent so I can't judge that (this is common with most apartment complexes built before 1990, which here is most of them). PG&E sucks ass and electricity and gas are expensive, though my roommate currently pays the bills so I don't know exactly what they cost right now. (The one upside of Palo Alto (or Santa Clara) is that they have co-op electric utilities which are cheaper and more reliable than PG&E.)
I guess I should say something positive about here. Well, um, the weather's nice? Also like I said with a tech job they will be aware of things like cost of living and you should be compensated accordingly.
It's at Google, they're trying to recruit me it seems. The cities in there look like they run together, just a few km apart; I just picked a nearby one that showed up when zoomed out. Any one of that cluster would be fine, worst case, under 10km I can probably bike it (maybe, do you have bike lanes down there?)
Ah, nice. Yeah, they'll probably pay you enough Bike friendliness varies but people are aware of it. If you live in Mountain View you could definitely do it. I actually live about a mile from the Googleplex and while Rengstorff and Shoreline are busy streets there are bike lines on most of 'em. (Also, check out bike path mode in Google maps.)
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It's an interesting time, because I've left my job and I'm looking for biology/naturalist work in the Portland area, as well as a room to rent. After nearly two years of humdrum workaday life, I've upended my own shit in favor of radical change.
Feels exciting, man
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Do you absolutely need to live in Palo Alto itself? PA is very expensive due to its proximity to not only the big tech companies like Google, Facebook and others, but it borders with Stanford, causing it to be incredibly expensive for what you get. I live in San Francisco and pay quite a bit, but honestly, compared to living in downtown PA, they're fairly close. Also, for the love of God don't live in East Palo Alto. You will get shot. Use mapliv.com (or a similar site) to find good deals.
Food/utilities/etc:
I rarely cook for myself anymore (job perk) but I remember spending around 200-300$ a month on food when I lived in San Jose with a worse job. Utilities never ran me more than 50$ a month by myself. Cable/internet will run you more, baseline usually around 70-80$ combined.
Mass transit is... eh. Not great in my opinion. Cal-Train is not always on time, sometimes just cancels trains, can be awful. Busses in the south bay are alright. Salvageable. I would just suggest driving because it's easy. Neville will disagree. You shouldn't need to worry about BART and such because you're looking so far south.
While I am a dual citizen with Canada, I can't offer you any advice on the duality of taxes and such there.
Thanks for the info. Strictly speaking, no I don't actually have to be in Palo Alto, I just don't really drive, so unless there's somewhat reliable regional transit between the cities it would get difficult
And it is an engineering job, I'm just trying to figure out how much to add to my current salary to maintain my current real income, so I can judge any offers
Favlaudjust straight up awfulRegistered Userregular
nev! it's been a while! and yeah, it is. scary because of so many unknowns and factors beyond my control, but it's something I've been wanting to do for a long time now and I have the savings to really make it work, I think. it's just a matter of finding a place and a job (because it's that easy)
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Through word of mouth, I found a leather store. Guy doesn't have a fetlife or facebook page, just a webpage with one minimalistic page and not much else. While it's well out of my area of expertise, I'm going to see if he needs help growing his business with a better online presence. If it turns into work, good. If not, well, maybe I can get a discount on some stuff.
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nevilleThe Worst Gay(Seriously. The Worst!)Registered Userregular
nev! it's been a while! and yeah, it is. scary because of so many unknowns and factors beyond my control, but it's something I've been wanting to do for a long time now and I have the savings to really make it work, I think. it's just a matter of finding a place and a job (because it's that easy)
So my department head has "plans" for me and feels like I'm too smart and overqualified for my current position. So yay, assuming any of it actually happens. Transferring to a different department was my ultimate goal, but being promoted from within would work just as well.
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nevilleThe Worst Gay(Seriously. The Worst!)Registered Userregular
that's the american dream, right there. I tell you what
Pretty sure that was a euphamism.
also: gross
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Yay, got called about availability for work! Passed the security check Soon I will find out if I can swing another job or not. Is it inane of me to not want to consider jobs with a lower pay than I would be getting with the library? And I am probably all spoield on expecting federal holidays and a monday to friday workweek. I just dont think I could work retail now.
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Do you absolutely need to live in Palo Alto itself? PA is very expensive due to its proximity to not only the big tech companies like Google, Facebook and others, but it borders with Stanford, causing it to be incredibly expensive for what you get. I live in San Francisco and pay quite a bit, but honestly, compared to living in downtown PA, they're fairly close. Also, for the love of God don't live in East Palo Alto. You will get shot. Use mapliv.com (or a similar site) to find good deals.
Food/utilities/etc:
I rarely cook for myself anymore (job perk) but I remember spending around 200-300$ a month on food when I lived in San Jose with a worse job. Utilities never ran me more than 50$ a month by myself. Cable/internet will run you more, baseline usually around 70-80$ combined.
Mass transit is... eh. Not great in my opinion. Cal-Train is not always on time, sometimes just cancels trains, can be awful. Busses in the south bay are alright. Salvageable. I would just suggest driving because it's easy. Neville will disagree. You shouldn't need to worry about BART and such because you're looking so far south.
These questions may also be better answered by @moriveth @janson @simben @everyone else in the south bay but not santa cruz that's not the south bay you jerks.
While I am a dual citizen with Canada, I can't offer you any advice on the duality of taxes and such there.
don't live there
Thanks for the info. Strictly speaking, no I don't actually have to be in Palo Alto, I just don't really drive, so unless there's somewhat reliable regional transit between the cities it would get difficult
And it is an engineering job, I'm just trying to figure out how much to add to my current salary to maintain my current real income, so I can judge any offers
"I know you have personal issues but other people here have kids too"
Yeah, and their kids are old enough to watch themselves, or they have wives that don't work
I'll just hire an after-school babysitter with all the money I don't have so I can stay at work longer, and I guess the sitter will also be cooking us dinner and cleaning the house
Nah
Im assuming the kid isnt old enough for something like preschool or some kind of after school program?
Or possibly a split shift or work from home solution? Dunno what you do but maybe something those line.
That is if you really like/want to keep your job.
Could just try and find another, more accommodating workplace.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying my boss has any obligations to me
This just sucks and I'm trying to figure out what to do
Not sleep, I guess
Any other family members in town?
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I can maybe negotiate the occasional evening or weekend time with her, but it's kind of unfair to her that she never has free time already
Now that I'm set up a little, I started the email bombs today... starting with game companies that might need an Audio/Music Production/Music composition team member around Vancouver. After that if no fish have bit it's on to performance/production at the studios, then theaters, then orchestras, then bars, restaurants, and clubs, then stores and whoever might possibly hire me.
Already got one rejection, but it was just because there weren't any positions available, and they said they'd contact me about future opportunities. So far I'm midway through the E's. Of course part of that is that I'm sending applications with personalized cover letters and resumes to pretty much anyone that can be contacted, even if they don't list any open audio positions. Thank god for my little war chest from ships that gives me a little breathing room.
Anyone here know of anyone who needs, like, anything musical in or near Vancouver?
Fuck right we're not in the south bay, way too awesome to be part of that shitpool
Our claims system is down so I literally can't do anything
Commercial, not residential
I'm assuming you meant me because Simben totally lives in Canada.
But yeah @Phyphor, it's expensive here. Rents are crazy.
Where specifically is the company you're interested in? You post in the programming thread so I'm assuming you're getting a tech job. Most of them will pay you enough to be able to afford to live here. And by "here", I don't really mean Palo Alto because it's crazy expensive compared to even everything elsewhere.
If the job is actually in Palo Alto, then you can look at Mountain View, Menlo Park, Redwood City, or Sunnyvale. (You can look even farther if you want as well, depending on how you feel about commuting versus your rent payments.) VTA sucks and I've never used it, and the light rail doesn't run to Palo Alto anyway. If you live and work within walking distance of a station you can take Caltrain. Otherwise you're going to need a car, and really I couldn't imagine not having a car unless I lived in worked in San Francisco, which is really the only area here with dense enough transit networks and local enough shops to make it possible.
Utilities depend entirely on what sort of things you want. I have TV and Internet which costs money but probably about as much as it does anywhere else. Water is currently included in my rent so I can't judge that (this is common with most apartment complexes built before 1990, which here is most of them). PG&E sucks ass and electricity and gas are expensive, though my roommate currently pays the bills so I don't know exactly what they cost right now. (The one upside of Palo Alto (or Santa Clara) is that they have co-op electric utilities which are cheaper and more reliable than PG&E.)
I guess I should say something positive about here. Well, um, the weather's nice? Also like I said with a tech job they will be aware of things like cost of living and you should be compensated accordingly.
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It's at Google, they're trying to recruit me it seems. The cities in there look like they run together, just a few km apart; I just picked a nearby one that showed up when zoomed out. Any one of that cluster would be fine, worst case, under 10km I can probably bike it (maybe, do you have bike lanes down there?)
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The 2nd was not really a job offer, but an apology from my old boss who fired me. He is apologizing for letting me go and asking to network with me on linkedin. He is openly admitting fault and saying he feels bad about it. He is saying that my replacement isn't working out and he feels bad about that too. What the fuck? This was sent at 2AM, so im assuming he was drunk or something? If i read this out of context it would read like he broke up with me and wants to get back together after sleeping around.
Ah, nice. Yeah, they'll probably pay you enough
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Feels exciting, man
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@favlaud It has! Come visit the bay area, sirrrr!
But good luck! Moving is fun and also scary.
that's the american dream, right there. I tell you what
Pretty sure that was a euphamism.
also: gross