Landscape Design Berkeley
What are the pros/cons, your likes/dislikes of living in San Francisco Bay Area?
I’m interested in going to UC Berkeley for a Masters in Urban Design. I’m currnetly a 4th year Landscape Architecture student @ NC State University, and I’ll be graduating next year (2011) and also when I will be apply to UC Berkeley.
Even if I don’t get into Cal after immediately after graduating due to lack of X-years of professional experience, It’d still be nice to move to the area and work for a firm in order to prepare me for the licensure examination and so I’ll be an in-state resident of California in the event I do get into Berkeley.
For me the perfect city would have:
Excellent transportation system and pedestrian friendly
Lots of culture (night life[everything doesn't close @ 9pm], museums, concerts of all genres, great architecture, parks)
I’m from the southeast, so it’d be nice to be surrounded by “friendly folk” lol
Near water
Safe
Nice apts/houses with affordable rent (I’m ok with having housemate)
Decent cost of living
Cal 08 Graduate of College of Environmental Design
Got my Bachelors in Architecture, also live in Bay Area for the last 11 years.
Berkeley sounds like your Perfect City! One thing is that Nice places in Berkeley cost a lot! A friend of mine is paying $2000 for a tiny 2 bedroom and that is considered cheap. There are much cheaper places but they are not very nice, old buildings, run down, smells funny… these are a few things that I was faced with on a budget looking for a place in Berkeley.
Besides that, it is an awesome city! Lots of culture, friendly, lots of good places to eat! Good public transit system and so forth
Qik – Berkeley Hills Front Landscape Design Build by Taylor Schultz