We're looking to fill a room immediately. We've had a lot of interest for summer housing but while we may have a vacancy then, people with immediate housing needs are our top priority

Unique house for woman seeking economy -- $ 550/ month. In house with friendly international group. You would share your room with one other person. a woman graduate physics student. The house has other professional men and women from all around the world (below and group picture) This room has the basics -- bed, wardrobe closet, your own desk, encrypted wireless, etc.. Otherwise the house has what most people would need ( washer/dryer, fully equipped kitchen etc) and house has what most would want otherwise. Many more details about this "international house", the room and our group below

We seek someone such as

(1) Someone requiring basic accommodation like bed, lamp and peace (thus costs very low for Palo Alto)
(2) Applicants from outside the United States - see below.
(3) A woman who could enjoy uniquely diverse people -- thoughtful men and women already here.

AND/OR possibly
(4 ) Someone who enjoys barbecues and potlucks and documentaries (NOT ESSENTIAL But we like these)

We would like to hear from people who enjoy things like science, the world scene, history, etc See more below.

AVAILABLE NOW

The setup has been surprisingly acceptable to professionals -- among them a woman physicist and a woman earning her MD as a developing country doctor (of the type who bravely works for Doctors without Borders) You would share the general area with other people like graduate students and interns at local companies who tend to be science oriented. It's unique and we will explain much more if you contact us

Nominal rent $550/month including utilities.

WE REALLY ENJOY HAVING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE U.S.-- we've had international people from all continents (except Antarctica). People here have included researchers, undergraduates through Ph.D's MD's etc and others from all around the world. Our housemates have been from Germany and EU, Latin America, PR China, Mexico, India, Belarus, Egypt, Peru and Mongolia. See more below.

Two month minimum. BUT we much prefer a longer renter stays, such as 4 months or more.

Deposit of $250 is refundable.

We hope for a person who while here, can enjoy our international and multicultural group. You might be one of our international visitors.

We can give you contacts with various people who have stayed here in the past.

Accommodation could work for (to repeat above)

1.Someone here part time, possibly someone for whom the daily trip to the Palo Alto area is too demanding

1. Interns at local companies (some nearby companies below) .

However the advertised accommodations have also worked well for

1. Impoverished (by Palo Alto standards) students, with limited budgets.
2. Scholars and/or researchers visiting from other countries (see who we are)

House has most things a renter will need. It has a shower, washer/dryer, encrypted wireless internet. For people who like to cook a little or a lot, there is full kitchen use with cookware, plates and utensils. Bicycles to ride. Plus many other features described below.

Stay of at least 6 months will receive priority although as short as 2 months could be negotiated.

These are preferences, not essential. Go ahead and respond if you think you fit

WHO ARE WE (in this "international house")?

We are 6+ people (see the group picture) w. various occupations: Scientists, international scholars/grad/medical students. Some of us toil in the local technological (and/or nontechnical) Salt Mines of the modern Silicon Valley Czars of Technology and Commerce.

We are greatly interested in the world, that storied global area outside boundaries of the USA, well known and understood by only a modest fraction of Americans.

COMMUTE DISTANCES TO LOCAL PLACES OF WORK AND STUDY

It's about 1 mile from here (a walk) to Bosch, Xerox PARC, VMWare, Roche, Veterans Administration Hospital/Medical Center, Stanford Blood Bank.

It's 2 miles or less to SAP software, Tesla, Varian, Stanford Research Parks, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Hewlett Packard, Box, Cloudera, Theranos and etc .

3-5 miles, depending (Nice bike path, bus or Foothill Expressway) to Stanford University and Foothill college. 4 miles to Google and about a hundred other similar work places.

There is ample nearby street parking along a greenery lined section of our street. Or we can provide you a bicycle An image of the bike path to Stanford, and its surrounding area is shown

MEDICAL STUDENTS Since 2005 we have had over a dozen medical students/ professionals (Stanford, and including many international attendees of Stanford's Physician Assistant program. Also medical staff at the Veterans' Administration Hospital and Stanford Blood Bank ).

(You can check mileage from Pomona Avenue and Arastradero, Palo Alto to your destination on Google or Mapquest, etc.) See map below showing bicycle path that goes from our house location through woods and on to Stanford: The bike path goes through woods tree lined streets, and avoids heavy traffic.

NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSE

Quiet neighborhood, abundant trees. See bike route on map Near Terman Park. One block from free tennis courts (in Terman Park).

House has Washer/Dryer, Cable TV. Wireless DSL internet. The house has an Apple TV with infinite-seeming film library and even more available on Amazon Prime on which we watch re-runs of things like PBS NOVA . The house also has e-systems computer with Linux OS and software (MS office, Adobe Acrobat etc etc) free for use by all in the house.

Also free for use by all in the house -- FREE INTERNATIONAL CALLING to most land telephones worldwide as well as USA via Skype (Don's Skype). People here have recently called rural Nepal, rural China (People's Republic) India and northern Russia near Murmansk. And all European countries.

SOLAR ELECTRICITY. This is also a solar electric house -- "blackout proof", by means of a 6 kilowatt peak power photovoltaic (sun powered) electric system and backup. We can go mostly off the local electric supply if we wish. Or if local power fails (as California power often did under delusional free market guidance exacerbated by corporate piracy [eg Enrons and the like] a decade ago).

Your housemates, who are grad students, professors,scientists, and thoughtful people from several continents, can be very interesting to talk with about many things.

THINGS WE ASPIRE TO:

Enjoy talking. But not about US football (at least much). Discuss our countries. Some of us are very interested in US foreign policy (perhaps a better term is the lack of understandable/ consistent and coherent policy). Several who are here also discuss "lofty and highfalutin" topics including science, energy and environment, biology, medicine, cosmology, artificial intelligence and the long term implications, etc. and blah blah.

We occasionally have multi-national pot-lucks (meals, social events with people bringing foods typical of different countries) and barbecues. These have been fun. And we sometimes have parties: See pics on the link at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonzi-us/sets/72157605233507551/. As a consequence of our international makeup the captions happen to be in Italian. But you can pretty much figure them out.

Watching TV series and documentaries . Good movies. We already have "infinite channel" TV that comes to us courtesy of the US Media Oligarchy (Comcast/NBC) . Some good stuff gets through to us, though we acknowledge that what you'd call "good stuff" is a low fraction of the total from Comcast/NBC cable oligarchs. We can access an enormous range of movies via Apple TV and Amazon Prime (see next)

We also recently got an Apple giant screen TV. We can watch virtually anything via web links. Some of us recently watched (for example) "Dr. Strangelove" and the Public Broadcasting NOVA series on the time course of Astronomy and the development of telescopes since the time of Galileo Galilei. And the fascinating rccent discovery that the Neanderthals disppeared by becoming ancestors ancestors of present humans -- us.

And we discuss black holes. And Borat. And some of us actually know a little about Kazakhstan and President for Life Nursultan Nazarbayev, (appointed by himself - - - [three times, just in case]) and Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome Space Port (world's largest space port if you haven't been there).

EXPLORING NEARBY AND FARAWAY (USA) PLACES

If you like this sort of thing, some of us hike and go sightseeing to places like San Francisco and local attractions. People here can sometimes give you a ride. We have maps of many local and distant places (worldwide) and can get travel help for you from memberships of some of us in the American Automobile Association. People have come from (for some examples) Germany, Peru, Sweden, Belarus, Russia--Siberia and PR China and traveled widely while lving here.

You can hike around here in the woods or around big companies like Google, Intel, Facebook, Intuit etc and marvel at the billionaires' world-famous corporate palaces. Talk to us about the more inspiring local tours you can take .

OTHER -- MONEY / LEASE

$ 250 deposit, refundable. There is a limited (less than 1 page) lease, not restrictive but 30 day notice required..

WE SEEK

People commuting from distant permanent housing o local work. Or local researcher. One recent and typical occupant was a surgery resident at the nearby (1mile away) Palo Alto Veterans Administration medical center.

BUT if it sounds interesting, and you are not fitting any mentioned category contact us anyhow; let's at least talk.

We hope for someone who can enjoy life and people.

People here now (or recently) include Ms. Alina (SETI = Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence/ planetary researcher from Germany), Lucia, (home nursing specialist originially from Costa Rica), Christopher (Nuclear physicist at SLAC.) Siddharth (engineer from U. Texas, and Chennai In.) Lucy, (from Xi'an, China researcher at Stanford) Ana (Peruvian intern and Ph D candidate robot science ) and Don. And often others.

You can find your commute distance from intersection of Pomona and Arastradero to your destinations at mapquest.com (or google)

Also please tell us at least something about yourself.

• • • We will not respond without something about your background and studies or work.
• • • We do not respond to "is the room still available?" inquiries. Presence of the ad indicates availability

Leave message, DON, LUCY or LUCIA . PLEASE leave an email WITH PHONE NUMBER where we can phone you. We can call you anywhere in the world and then we can discuss more.

We hope to hear from you.