Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose

Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by malandrew on Sunday July 31, 2011 @06:06PM (#2829790)

I'm looking for a hacker house in the Bay Area at the moment, but I wish there were more hacker houses in a more reasonable price range. $1100 is a lot for anyone trying to bootstrap and keep their burn rate as low as possible.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by jackowayed on Sunday July 31, 2011 @07:02PM (#2829960)

$1100 is cheap for the Bay Area ... You might be able to do better in Oakland/Berkeley. Not ideal, but more and more things are in SF these days, and they're a quick BART ride from SF.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by malandrew on Sunday July 31, 2011 @07:28PM (#2830031)

$1100 is cheap for a nice room or studio with your own bath, but there certainly are many options cheaper than $1100. I've stayed with friends spending $400-600 in SF in the Mission, Downtown and Tenderloin areas, and these aren't people that have been living there for years under rent control. A search on Craigslist shows a lot of options in SF for under $800.

Hacker Houses of course have the added benefit that they are also a productive place to work and thus don't require you to pay for an open desk in a co-working space.

Artist houses are a much better example of how low you can go insofar as living costs are concerned. I wish there were more hackers that were interested in the approach artists take.

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