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[18:04] House Hunting
We had our rental tour with Jalayne today. A rental tour is when someone who has good local knowledge drives you around to look at rental places that they think will suit your needs. It was a bit disappointing, we looked at a lot of houses and we didn't really see anything great. I think that moving straight into luxury apartments kinda skews your view of what you're looking at. The other problem is that we've gotten used to London suburb placement (and public transport) and told everyone that we'd be happy to look for somewhere to live either in Mountain View itself or perhaps in the surrounding suburbs of San Jose, Sunnyville or Palo Alto. Turns out that's not such a hot idea since everything is (literally) miles away from everything else and this place isn't exactly bike friendly.
The other problem was that this was Jalayne's first rental tour and she was a little disorganised so we ended up flitting from one end of town to the other. On the other hand she had really awesome local knowledge and showed us around a fair bit so we got to see Shoreline Park, Santana Row (the local "strip") and as she's a knitter she also showed Shona a place called Commuknitty. Unfortunately, the hunt's not over...
[Posted at: 2006-09-17 18:04]