Light Rail also takes you to downtown San Jose and downtown Campbell – finding an apartment within walking distance to light rail would make a lot of sense for your son.

He’ll need a car to see the other sights near MV, Carmel/Monterey/Napa/Sonoma/Berkeley – even getting to some of the local spots in San Jose, Sunnyvale or Santa Clara will require car/uber/lyft

Lots of food options in any of the downtowns for MV, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Campbell, Los Gatos, Saratoga, San Jose, etc – use Yelp

Forget the hotel option, hotels are way too expensive during the work week – probably $400 for a decent hotel and he’d have to keep moving. Only thing will be finding an apartment willing to lease for just the summer but google (hey that’s in MV) is his friend. AirBnB might be another option

Not bad 🙂

Looks like they found a decent and good priced place next to rail stop…which they ‘ll take to work.

Thanks.

Here’s the answer (only half joking):
I’d bet you anything that about half of your readers have recently picked up a Marriott 7 Night Travel Package and now they don’t know what to do with the 7 night certificate. There happens to be a category 5 Townplace Suites in Mountain View. And the suites include a full kitchen. Ask 12 of your readers to each book a week for your son, for maybe $350 per week (I think that’s a fair price to get for a certificate that they probably would have left unused). You don’t get elite status or anything, but your son gets free breakfast and maid services and probably a pool and gym for the summer for only $4200 all-in.

Congratulations on TBB NextGen’s proto-career success!

I read some more comments today. Tacolishish is ok… the real best fish Taco is at Dia De Pesca.

Despite what foolmoon is telling you, I lived there for close to 8 years just left in August. Lightrail is a joke sure you can ride it to Levis stadium, but watching the 49ers is waste of $. To get the SharkTank is brutal public transport trek, and yes a good amount of techies ride the lightrail to work, but only the ones who work for companies that are on the line. Luckily your son’s company is. The trip to the “heart” of SF is a train ride thats over an hour unless its express and dumps you in the China Basin area, great for going to the Giants game (a must do, one of the prettiest parks in MLB) but other than that you then need to transfer to lightrail in SF or take Uber.

I do think your son will learn a couple valuable lessons from not having a car in MV. He will appreciate cars even more, learn to enjoy walking, and learn that between google shopping and prime now he can get anything delivered.

The folks I know in MV who live within walking/biking distance to light rail stops hardly use their cars anymore. It takes an hour to get into the heart of SF, but it’s much cheaper than trying to park there. These are people who never used to commute before they moved to MV. But they’ve grown to love commuting and use the light rail to connect to work, the airport, sports, you-name-it; surprised you sound so against it.

yes genki ramen!

although newer (and more expensive) ramen joints are sprouting up all over the city. i mean, who doesn’t want to pay $18 for a bowl of ramen?

Fantastic info, thank you so much. Son read it, he wants a car he said, you get a bike I said 🙂

Great, thanks!

Love Hwy 1!

Genki Ramen…I love ramen! Wil make sure to hit this place!