When I first moved to the Menlo Park/Palo Alto area two years ago, rent on a decent two-bedroom apartment was around $1400-1700 per month. Currently (two years later roughly), it's $2350+ a month and still climbing.
In fairness, a lot of that has to do with Facebook moving into Menlo Park and the crazy demand for space in Palo Alto / proximity to Stanford University.
I'd move farther south, but there's too much urban sprawl which makes it inconvenient at best to get around unless you drive everywhere. Mountain View is going up too thanks to Google.
The last place of refuge is pretty much Sunnyvale and San Jose. But the rent there is still a few hundred higher per month at least than it was two years ago.
When I first moved to the Menlo Park/Palo Alto area two years ago, rent on a decent two-bedroom apartment was around $1400-1700 per month. Currently (two years later roughly), it's $2350+ a month and still climbing.
In fairness, a lot of that has to do with Facebook moving into Menlo Park and the crazy demand for space in Palo Alto / proximity to Stanford University.
I'd move farther south, but there's too much urban sprawl which makes it inconvenient at best to get around unless you drive everywhere. Mountain View is going up too thanks to Google.
The last place of refuge is pretty much Sunnyvale and San Jose. But the rent there is still a few hundred higher per month at least than it was two years ago.