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<blockquote data-quote="Swack-Iron" data-source="post: 365277" data-attributes="member: 511"><p>Palo Alto has a pretty good gaming shop: Gamescape. Gamescape has a board you can post on if you're looking for local games. Palo Alto is also where you find Standford University (universities are always bastions of gaming) and is an important part of Silicon Valley, a huge area with a higher-than-average quotient of geeks. Finding a game shouldn't be a problem for you.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Living in Palo Alto... be prepared for sticker shock. The northern end of Silcon Valley (Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton) is one of the most expensive places to live in the world. Where you live in the Bay Area is going to be dependent on how much money you have; the less money, the further from Palo Alto. For example, we live in one of the nicer apartments in Mountain View (one city south of Palo Alto) and we pay $1700US for a 2 bedroom/2 bathroom apartment. And what with the economic crash, prices have actually come *down* to this level.</p><p></p><p>As for hanging out, locally Palo Alto has it's downtown area (centered around University Avenue), Menlo Park's downtown (around Santa Cruz avenue, and near to Kepler's Books, an awesome bookstore), and Mountain View's downtown (around Castro Street). Palo Alto and Mountain View are especially known for the excellent quality of ethnic food. All the downtowns are home to many excellent coffee shops and bookstores.</p><p></p><p>For cool things for the newbie in town, you can obviously spend days and days in San Francisco. And when you get tired of SF, you can move on to Berkeley and San Jose. The entire bay is ringed with lovely hills. The ocean and redwood forests are within easy driving distance of Silicon Valley. And the Sierra Nevada mountains can be reached in 4 hours for summer camping or winter skiing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Getting programming jobs in Silicon Valley right now is a lot tougher than it was a couple of years ago. In fact, getting *any* kind of job is tougher.</p><p></p><p>Good luck, and enjoy the Bay Area!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Swack-Iron, post: 365277, member: 511"] Palo Alto has a pretty good gaming shop: Gamescape. Gamescape has a board you can post on if you're looking for local games. Palo Alto is also where you find Standford University (universities are always bastions of gaming) and is an important part of Silicon Valley, a huge area with a higher-than-average quotient of geeks. Finding a game shouldn't be a problem for you. [B][/B] Living in Palo Alto... be prepared for sticker shock. The northern end of Silcon Valley (Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton) is one of the most expensive places to live in the world. Where you live in the Bay Area is going to be dependent on how much money you have; the less money, the further from Palo Alto. For example, we live in one of the nicer apartments in Mountain View (one city south of Palo Alto) and we pay $1700US for a 2 bedroom/2 bathroom apartment. And what with the economic crash, prices have actually come *down* to this level. As for hanging out, locally Palo Alto has it's downtown area (centered around University Avenue), Menlo Park's downtown (around Santa Cruz avenue, and near to Kepler's Books, an awesome bookstore), and Mountain View's downtown (around Castro Street). Palo Alto and Mountain View are especially known for the excellent quality of ethnic food. All the downtowns are home to many excellent coffee shops and bookstores. For cool things for the newbie in town, you can obviously spend days and days in San Francisco. And when you get tired of SF, you can move on to Berkeley and San Jose. The entire bay is ringed with lovely hills. The ocean and redwood forests are within easy driving distance of Silicon Valley. And the Sierra Nevada mountains can be reached in 4 hours for summer camping or winter skiing. [B][/B] Getting programming jobs in Silicon Valley right now is a lot tougher than it was a couple of years ago. In fact, getting *any* kind of job is tougher. Good luck, and enjoy the Bay Area! [/QUOTE]
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