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Ahmfpmfsfff. Finding a nice place to stay is just too hard! Let me explain.

I am now still staying in downtown San Jose, with Vikram and Vidhur, but I have to leave by the end of this week. I have been looking to a lot of places and two weeks ago I had actually said yes to this one place not far from where I now live. But by the time I had gotten and returned his credit-check application he had already given it to someone else! I have seen maybe 12 places in San Jose (and around) of which most would just bore me to death. The people living there would mostly just be too old or a family. Other bad options include way far from downtown, no kitchen or dirty.

Right now I am in doubt. I have two options:

1) I can move to Santa Clara. Some people contacted me through my -housing wanted- posting on craigslist, they just signed a lease for a otherwise very nice house in Santa Clara (between San Jose and my work). They are friendly but already announced that they will be doing little else but studying law. The main issue is that if they dont become my friends I wont have any friends. Somehow it is really hard to meet -my kind- of people in San Joe. I actually already said yes.

2) I can move to San Francisco. Somehow it is very easy to make friends here and there are tons of nice bars and places to go. The downside is that it is hard to find an affordable room (think Amsterdam). I got this offer at this party yesterday for sharing a room in the sunset district, and it would be perfect; if the commute would not be so horrible (2hrs one way by public trans). There are districts with better access to the train, so I would need to look for something there. Cost for a room is ~ $ 900 !

On the party I was yesterday pretty much everyone agreed that I should move to the city instead.

What to do??