The Bubbaland Community in Professorville, Palo Alto is looking for new folks to join us! We are located near downtown Palo Alto, right behind the Town & Country Plaza. We are around the corner from Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, a quick walk to the Palo Alto Caltrain station, close to multiple farmers markets, and a quick bike ride to Stanford’s main quad. We are a community of around 8 graduate students, post-docs and young professionals (mid-20s-30s) who value sustainability, social justice, and communal living split across three units in a single big home; the current opening is our whole upstairs 2-bedroom, 1-bathroom unit. The entire home engages in weekly house dinners and bi-monthly house meetings and 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 community, and have tons of permitted street parking as well as a driveway with 3 parking spots and a covered bike shed. The three total units (the 2-bedroom available, a studio, and a 5-bedroom) are distinct indoor COVID pods and we've been practicing social distancing in our common outdoor spaces. However, we still find ways to spend time together; we are happy to share more about COVID policies. We all love building community both in and outside of the house. Before COVID, we 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 recycled construction supplies) and Bay Natives (incredible California native plants for landscaping!) in SF, elaborate outdoor dinner parties, mushroom foraging trips and more. Now for the nitty-gritty details! The apartment features a living room with a nook (perfect for a slightly secluded office or reading area), a large kitchen (with dishwasher), and a huge amount of storage area in the crawl space. Rent is $3300/mo; utilities include high-speed internet, electricity, gas, and water, and often come to roughly $60 per person per month. The lease typically starts as 1-year, but then transitions to month-to-month; the apartment is available on June 13th. The set-up is truly ideal for folks looking for community, but with your own private space–historically, the unit has housed everyone from couples to groups of friends to small families. We are looking forward to meeting our new community members! If you think this would be a good fit for you, please reply to our Craigslist ad here: