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I’ll chime in here. I’m FT and didn’t summer in SF but talked to our SAs about this. North Beach is the easiest and most popular spot. You can walk to work which is nice. Marina/Russian Hill area is nice too but farther from FiDi. AirBNB is the most common for the 10 weeks but you could try to sublet I suppose. Stay away from Civic Center and Tenderloin at all costs. Union Square area is a little sketchy but some make it work.

TLDR: North Beach, Russian Hill, Marina in that order. No to Tenderloin. Hope this helps!

 

So, I currently am an intern for a company in SF under their M&A. I got my offer a little too close to the starting date so I got kinda fucked. But, as someone in the thread mentioned, North Beach is great. Lots of action, pretty open when it comes to being able to explore, etc. I live in Berkeley right now and got lucky that the company has a shuttle that picks us up or else I would have been expensing BART rides all summer (annoying). 

Marina is also great like someone mentioned. But, if youre trying to pocket some of that stipend money and you do get expensed travel, I currently only pay around $700 for my own room. and a shared bathroom in Berkeley and pocket quite a sum of my stipend haha. So, really up to you in terms of flexibility and accessibility. Lastly, a hard no on tenderloin ;)

 

Nob Hill, North Beach, Russian Hill are decent areas in the northern part of the city. Marina, Cow Hollow, and Pacific Heights are very nice but a bit further away from FiDi. I lived in Soma when I first moved to SF and it was okay. I really like the buildings in Rincon Hill but they're expensive. I currently live in the South Beach/Mission Bay area near the Giants baseball stadium and it's pretty nice over here. I ride a bike around the Embarcadero to work everyday and its an easy 10-15 bike ride. 

 

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