mark@cbosgd.UUCP (06/25/83)
If you ever log in at Berkeley and read msgs, you'll find that nearly half the messages are of the form "I need a place to live". Every once in a while you see "house to sublet for summer costing $1000/month". I don't know if these people get any replies, but I know people with apartments to rent don't have any trouble finding tenents. The vacancy rate in Berkeley is always under 1%. If you are looking for housing for next fall at UCB, I urge you to go out there NOW and find some. September will be too late, and you'll wind up scrambling with large numbers of other people. The housing office keeps listings, but you have to show up in person and present proof you're a student or will be to look at them. The listings from any given morning are often all gone by noon. If you happen to be married, apply in April for married student housing. It's a good deal (or was before they started raising the rents to subsidize the new single student dorms) but has a long waiting list. If you apply now I don't know if you'll get to the front of the list by fall. As to a newsgroup, there is already a ucb.housing, but this doesn't help new people trying to get out there. I doubt the rest of the net would be as interested, since other campuses aren't nearly as hard to find housing. Of course, if I'm wrong and there is interest, great. I wonder if some impoverished student at Berkeley wants to make a few bucks and do some local legwork for people who can't go out there? Mark Horton
govern@houxf.UUCP (06/28/83)
When I went to Berkeley, I went out in August to find a place. The basic impression I got was that the quality/price of housing available doesn't change much from June - August, but you have to look farther away as time slips. I ended up paying $25 to Homefinders (cost depends on your price range), and getting a decent apartment that was only advertised through them. At least in Berkeley, they seem to provide good service; here in NJ they're mostly a ripoff. If you're interested in sharing a room, there is some sort of roommate-finding service around; I've forgotten its name.
jdd@allegra.UUCP (06/28/83)
From inmet!tower Mon Jun 20 22:18:39 1983 Subject: Re: Re: Berkeley housing info wanted - (nf) (inmet.120) Newsgroups: net.followup ... Keeping the number of news topics down maximizes the number of people who read each topic. Well, maybe. It sure increases the amount of cruft that any one person has to wade through! And while it might be nice to have a few groups that lots and lots of people read (hey, that was the reasoning that lead to posting to net.general!), I'd suggest that having more specific newsgroups is to the greater advantage of the Usenet community. Cheers, John ("Let's Have Exponential Newsgrup Growth") DeTreville Bell Labs, Murray Hill
jdd@allegra.UUCP (06/28/83)
From mit-eddi!rlh Sun Jun 26 13:35:16 1983 Subject: Re: Berkeley housing info wanted (mit-eddi.329) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.college Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site mhuxt.UUCP Message-ID: <329@mit-eddi.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Jun-83 23:55:16 EDT Altogether too many people had to read the first message. Any local subnets that care can set up <local>.[whatever]. Ah, but the poor luser wasn't \in/ the geographic area being posted to! Scenario: I need some picture postcards from Wyoming. These are hard to find in New York City. I decide to ask on netnews. Maybe there's a wy.all subnet? I have no way of knowing. If I found out there were, is there a wy.wanted, or have they named it differently? Even if there were a wy.wanted, I would have no way to post to it from New Jersey. So I wimp out and use net.wanted. Moral: Geographic subgroups are nice not not very general. Cheers, John ("In At Most One Place At Any One Time") DeTreville Bell Labs, Murray Hill