The Bubbaland Community in Professorville, Palo Alto, is looking for a new housemate! We are located near downtown Palo Alto, right behind the Town and Country Plaza. We are a 10-min walk to the Palo Alto Caltrain station, a 3-min bike ride to Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, and a 10-min bike ride to Stanford’s main quad. We are a community of graduate students and young professionals (mid-20’s-30’s) who value sustainability and social justice, and strive to create a home that reflects these priorities. We are one house that is split into three different units. The downstairs of the house is a co-op and there are two upstairs apartments. The current opening is in the downstairs co-op. The entire house engages in weekly house dinners, house meetings, and bi-monthly outdoor work days. Together, we share and communally work to maintain (and beautify!) our outdoor spaces, including a back patio, several garden areas, and a raised bed for herbs/vegetables. We also split utilities/WiFi across the complex, and have ample permitted street parking as well as a driveway with 3 parking spots (allocation to be decided across the three units) and a covered bike shed. We've been practicing social distancing in our common outdoor spaces but still finding ways to spend time together; we are happy to share more about COVID policies. We also value opportunities to build community both in and outside of the house. In the before-times, our household has hosted potlucks, open mic nights, “ballot research parties” to research local issues before voting, chamber music concerts, board game nights, and movie nights in our basement home theater. Sometimes we will go off on a hike or out for a volunteering activity together. In COVID-times, we’ve enjoyed socially distant bonfires on our patio, house excursions to Building Resources (amazing lot of recycled construction supplies) and Bay Natives (incredible California native plants for landscaping!) in SF, elaborate outdoor dinner parties, mushroom foraging trips and more. If you have ideas for group activities or programs you would like to run, we would be happy to support them! The current opening is in our downstairs co-op, where we communally share chores and responsibilities as well as most of our dry goods and staple food items. The downstairs co-op consists of a five-bedroom apartment on the first floor, with in-unit washer/dryer that we share with our upstairs neighbors. The shared space is large and open, with a newly renovated kitchen, spacious living room with an upright piano, and two bathrooms. Rent is $1059/mo; utilities include high-speed internet, electricity, gas, and water, and often come to roughly $60 per month. Move-in time can likely be flexible. We are looking forward to meeting our new housemate soon! If you think this would be a good fit for you, please reply to this post to introduce yourself by answering the following questions: - Who are you, and what do you do for a living? - Why are you interested in moving to Bubbaland? - What is your ideal move-in date? - How long would you like to live here, ideally? - What is one way you enjoy building community?