<p>My friend’s 20 year old son landed a great summer intership at Google in Mountain View, CA. He needs to find housing from mid-June to mid-August. Does anyone know whether any of the area colleges offer summer housing, or what message boards to check for summer sub-lets?</p>
<p>It was my understanding that Google provided some type of service for housing for interns…unless something has changed over the past few years…</p>
<p>What a great opportunity though!!!</p>
<p>Obv, Craigslist…but if your friend can contact the off-campus housing offices of the local colleges, there may be sublets</p>
<p>I don’t know the geography…but it looks like Stanford is not excessively far.</p>
<p>I agree with rodney - your S should check with Google first to see if they have any provisions or recommendations. </p>
<p>I don’t know if Santa Clara U allows non-SCU students to stay in their dorms during the summer but your S could check with them -
[Santa</a> Clara University Housing - Housing Summer Session](<a href=“http://www.scu.edu/housing/Summer-Housing.cfm]Santa”>On-Campus Living - Santa Clara University)</p>
<p>San Jose State has dorms they use for the summer but I don’t know if it’s open to non-SJSU people but it s/b easy to check -
[Overnight</a> Student Housing Options](<a href=“University Housing Services”>University Housing Services)</p>
<p>If none of that pans out he can check for sublets by SCU, SJSU, (both in San Jose) and Stanford (in Palo Alto) students (Mt. View is between Palo Alto and San Jose).</p>
<p>Finally, he can check for apartments in Mt. View, Sunnyvale (right next to Mt. View) and other nearby areas to see what it’d cost for the summer. It’d be less expensive and perhaps less lonely if he can find another Google intern to share the apt with and the internship dept at Google might be able to help with this.</p>
<p>Good luck to him.</p>
<p>My H works (for now) at Google Mt.View.</p>
<p>There are generally a slew of interns and Google doesn’t just throw them out into the world to find housing.</p>
<p>I can go into geography and locations if you want to PM me. Off the top of my head, I’d echo UCLA dad, although San Jose St. doesn’t have much in the way of housing as far as I know.</p>
<p>If your S decides to go it alone, just warn him away from anything in East Palo Alto.</p>
<p>Oh, and CONGRATS to your S. He will probably have a great time.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. It’s not my son, it’s my friends son, but I’ll pass on the congratulations to her.</p>
<p>Google does not provide housing. He has found potential room-mates but has been having trouble finding a sublet.</p>
<p>Last year my son used the list google gave him and it worked out fine. In fact he liked the housing well enough he’s using the same place for his real apartment now that google has hired him. My son chose something within walking distance because he doesn’t drive, but it turned out he could take the shuttle. Google may not provide housing, but they definitely sent my son a list of landlords.</p>
<p>Definitely try Craig’s List. He’ll need to search both the Peninsula and South Bay sublets because Mountain View is in both areas (according to CL anyway). Include Los Altos and Sunnyvale. Palo Alto is workable too if he has a car.</p>
<p>[SF</a> bay area sublets & temporary classifieds - craigslist (MV and Los Altos)](<a href=“SF bay area for sale - craigslist”>SF bay area for sale - craigslist)</p>
<p>[SF</a> bay area sublets & temporary classifieds - craigslist (MV and Sunnyvale)](<a href=“http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sub/sby?query=&srchType=A&minAsk=&maxAsk=&bedrooms=&nh=35&nh=44]SF”>http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sub/sby?query=&srchType=A&minAsk=&maxAsk=&bedrooms=&nh=35&nh=44)</p>
<p>Alternatively, Google runs a shuttle every day from San Francisco, not sure where the pickup location is, probably somewhere South of Market. It’s very popular among the employees who want to live in the city. It takes about an hour each way and the bus is equipped with wifi.</p>
<p>^The shuttle goes to Berkeley too, but I can’t imagine an intern wanting to commute that far.</p>
<p>Google is very responsive to folks who need some support with housing, as their competitors in some cases have on-site housing. S1 does not drive and found when he was out there for training that he could make a car-free life work for him.</p>
<p>My apologies, in advance, for derailing this thread.</p>
<p>Fascinating to learn that Mathmom and CountingDown have sons who don’t drive. Don’t you both have S2’s at Tufts? </p>
<p>Also have a 1st child who doesn’t drive who has a number of similarities to what you’ve posted about your S1’s.</p>
<p>Why don’t yours drive?</p>
<p>2boysima,
S1 refuses to drive because he’d rather read in the car. 
Given that many of his friends didn’t drive til college or later leads me to think that they learned so much physics in HS that they know the risks all too well! He is also the classic absent-minded professor and knows that paying attention behind the wheel would be a challenge. Fortunately, Chicago and Boston both have excellent public transit.</p>
<p>S2 got his license in January but has yet to drive solo. We all agree he is a good driver, but needs more seasoning. (He will not have a car at Tufts, either. Not in our family’s FA package, given where they are both going to school.) Neither went to our local HS, so they were used to riding the bus, and most parents around here don’t let their kids drive on the Beltway in rush hour, anyway.</p>
<p>We have excellent public transit around here and the guys are quite comfortable using it. OTOH, their cousins in Georgia and Kentucky think S1 and S2 are NUTS for not driving. The cousins all got their licenses the second they turned 16.</p>