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  1. So great to hear that you're loving it, 'geographyrocks'! I'm doubly excited to hear about how bikeable ABQ is. I'll be moving there in just under 2 weeks, and I do expect to be biking a LOT once I arrive. What part of town did you end up in? Any other insider tips/highlights, now that you're already there!
  2. I don't know much about the 'northeast quadrant', other than that my initial scouting (via 'walkscore') indicated that it was less walkable than other neighborhoods. Nob Hill is a walkable, pleasant, more upscale neighborhood; housing is more expensive than elsewhere, but it comes with close proximity to a lot of ABQ's retail and dining. If you have a chance to check housing in either place out, I would love to hear your impressions!
  3. I made a cross-country move from the east coast to the Bay Area two years ago.. for clothes and books, I highly recommend shipping via Amtrak. It is the cheapest option you'll find ($65 for the first 100 lbs, then 57 cents per pound after that; keep each box under 50 lbs), and got all of my stuff from coast to coast in a few days, well intact. The following post is an incredibly useful, cohesive aggregation of info on shipping with Amtrak: http://batmanimal.com/post/38797869104/using-amtrak-to-ship-everything-you-own. The problem arises when you won't be around for a month to pick up your packages. If you can't make an extra flight out to the Bay to move your things into a storage unit, perhaps you could find/pay a mover (ie: from Craigslist) to do so, though I would be sure to have a trusted coordinator around. Or, you could always ship your belongings twice; once from Boston to home, and a month later from home to the Bay Area. Good luck with the big move, and (an early) welcome to the Bay!
  4. I will be re-locating to UNM for graduate school in the fall as well, and as an avid bike-commuter who has really enjoyed being car-free for the last few years, I have been looking for any bit of hope that I could get by without a car in ABQ... When I visited campus I asked ~8 different grad students about getting around by bike / without a car... 8 of 8 INSISTED that it was impossible, or at least a terribly unsafe idea, despite the growing bike infrastructure (new bike lanes, etc.) in downtown/old town and near campus. At the moment I'm still stubbornly insisting on attempting to bike commute and rely on public transit or ZipCar (there are 2 cars located south of campus) when necessary. I would love some company in bike advocacy/solidarity when we get to ABQ. I've read that there is a monthly Critical Mass ride, too. PS: If you're looking at apartments downtown, my brief experience was that downtown becomes a ghost town on the weekends (excepting the bar and restaurant strip on Central between 2nd and 7th). In the small sample of grad students to whom I spoke, most live and socialize either just south of campus, or in Nob Hill.
  5. @ cicoree: Congratulations on your husband's acceptance! The Bay Area is an incredible place to live... but also incredibly expensive. Unfortunately, one would have a very difficult time even renting a room within half an hour from Stanford for less than $1000/month; studios and 1 BR apartments would definitely be out of that price range. If you haven't used PadMapper.com yet, I highly recommend it; it's a fantastic map-based aggregation of rental listings. If you're willing to live about a 30 minute drive away from Stanford in the even more suburban East Bay (ie: Hayward, Castro Valley), you can find a 1 BR for about $1000, though one should note that this is across the Dumbarton Bridge, with $5 toll (or if carpooling during peak hours, only $2.50). Closer to Stanford, as you toggle the 'rent range' up from $1000 to $1500 or $1600, you'll finally start to see 1 BRs appear in the vicinity of Palo Alto (namely in Redwood City and Mountain View). It looks like $2000 before you find your own 1 BR in Palo Alto proper. With all of that said, Stanford obviously has many grad students, a large number of whom I imagine are surviving solely on their stipend; there must be some way to do it! Does his program offer on-campus below-market housing for grad students?
  6. re: CUNY, same here; late last week my POI asked me to re-send a missing transcript, but I haven't heard anything since.
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