<p>Okay you guys are being silly about “looking for a roommate now”. No one is checking craigslist for the summer semester housing for at least 3 months or so…it would be fruitless. Also, I think maybe some of you have no experience with CL. It’s a very popular site and most people these days use it to find housing so I’m not to concerned about the “options” aspect. I guarantee you that I will put the add and get an obnoxious number of calls in just a matter of days. I will interview people of course, I’m not naive and have had to get a number of roommates in the past so I know how the process works. And about the neighborhood being sketchy? Yeah, not so much. It’s a really decent neighborhood where I’m not even scared to walk around at night. In fact I thought a lot of the neighborhood directly around the school seemed sketchy so maybe we are just from different places and have different definitions of what is dangerous and not. Also those calculation on how long it takes to get to school are a little of, the N. Berk bart station is a 5 minute ride to downtown berk bart station and then its a 15 min walk to campus from there. Totaling your travel time to 20mins which is not long. It’s about 5 minutes longer than someone living a mile from campus would be. Besides if a student can’t manage their time enough that the “extra 10 minutes” a day would affect their “studies” then I probably don’t want someone that irresponsible as a roommate. Sorry for this rant but half of you are being really ridiculous in your reasoning.</p>
<p>you seem to be angry at everyone who is telling you the most common way people at Cal think about distance, neighborhoods and desirability of commutes. You leased a place and want it to be easy to find a roommate, thus anyone that made the mistake of responding to your question “will I have trouble. . .” is getting a rant from you (unless they post what you seem to want to hear). </p>
<p>Therefore - - - No problem, you should have a ton of students lining up to rent your room at that price and location. Don’t sweat it, don’t think about adjusting the price and certainly wait until all the other places are listed before finding a roomie.</p>
<p>I am very irritated but not angry. I’ve lived in large cities before and never had I heard of such laziness. It’s astounding and yet just plain interesting. I didn’t mind those that that gave the “i think it would be an inconvenience because I’m lazy” type of response because that’s straight forward and honest but a lot of people were just tossing up random points that were irrelevant to my posting such as “the neighborhood is sketchy” or “the ride is 40 minutes a day”. Neither of those are true or make sense. That made me irritated because it just seemed like someone was looking for a negative thing to post whether it was true or not.</p>
<p>Also, you chose to read that as angry and not in a “matter-of-fact” kind of way. I was embarrassed after you posted that because I thought that I accidently made it sound like I was yelling, but I just re-read it and that was all you that decided to add the emotion to it. There was no anger behind it.</p>
<p>OP, this is not about laziness. If it was, for whatever reason, impossible for Cal students to live within a 3 mile radius of campus, then they would suck it up and live farther away. The thing is, it is just plain STUPID to get a place 3.5mi from campus when it is definitely possible to find one way closer to campus for a reasonable price.</p>
<p>Is the preference of many people ‘laziness’ just because it makes your lease less marketable? If you act similarly judgmental and intolerant of other personal choices and differences, quiz potential roomies to make sure they conform to the right mores, customs and attitudes.</p>
<p>OP even if you think the advice is ridiculous, you probably wana keep that in your own head. Telling us that just makes people less willing to give you advice. And honestly, if you think everyone is driving the wrong way, it might just be you.</p>
<p>to seniors or older folks, 3.5 miles is probably nothing, but for freshman who are used to living in the dorms so close to campus, 3.5 miles is far.</p>
<p>Rider: You’re being really extreme, nothing in my statement was judgmental on someones character, and no where did i specify that someone had to have the same “morals” or “views” as me in regards to other aspects of their lives…lol…I mean yes, they would have to be cool with taking the bart to school and/or driving, but that doesn’t have to do with their character and I assume they wouldn’t be interested in the room if they weren’t already aware of this. </p>
<p>JBreak: I never said I was looking for freshman. My ideal would be someone 21+ since I am 24 and dont want children in my apartment. I understand I didn’t specify that but I didn’t know I had too and had you asked what type of roommate I was looking for I would have mentioned that and perhaps your perception would have changed…</p>
<p>Okay if you’re looking for 21+ then that does change my perception. I, a freshman, have no idea how juniors/seniors/grad students think so I can’t speak for them.</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>@OP: are you sure it’s 3.5 miles?? Google maps shows that from Shattuck and Ashby to the south west side of campus is only 1 mile.</p>
<p>Well I’m on the corner of Essex Street and Shattuck Ave which is just one street up from Ashby. I just said Ashby/Shattuck because that is the nearest recognizable main street. When I typed in my home address into google maps and then typed in “UC Berkeley” it says 3.5 miles, however I just realized that that is measuring it to the center of campus. I didn’t think about that before though…I guess just to Sproul hall its only 1.4 miles so that certainly makes a big difference! lol. Thank you for bringing this to my attention! I knew it didnt seem far when I walked it, but I just assumed my perceptions were off somehow.</p>