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Silicon Valley single mom lives in one-car garage for $1,000 a month:

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The housing crunch is so bad in Silicon Valley that Nicole Jones, a single 29-year-old with a toddler and another baby on the way, paid $1,000 a month to live in a single-car garage in San Mateo. And she felt lucky. CNN highlighted her story recently in the  child poverty installment  of its  Change the List project , a series focused on trying to help places rise from the bottom of various misery lists ( worst rape rate ,  most endangered river ,  most unequal place ). Click image for slideshow. Jones was raising her little girl — 18 months old when CNN visited — in a converted garage space with a tiny bathroom, including "a stand-up shower that's way too small." The Daily Mail  estimated  its size at 250 square feet, but it looks like it may be even smaller. "My living room, kitchen, bedroom, dining room — this is everything," she told CNN. Her "kitchen" was a mini-fridge with a small microwave on top, and a to

How-To: Move Safely:

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Just as you always strive to keep your family safe and secure during a long moving trip, your friends at Mont-Rose Moving Systems put the same care and attention into the transport of your belongings. Whether you’re moving your first apartment, a 5-bedroom home, or even an entire office building, our team goes to great lengths to ensure that all of your items arrive at their new destinations in the same condition that they were left in. For larger items… As an agent of Mayflower, we not only have the support of moving and storage professionals all over the world, but we have access to the latest equipment and specialized machinery, too. From fleets of air-ride trucks to forklifts, specialty crating and rigging services and much more, we have everything you need, conveniently at our disposal. You can rest assured that no matter how large, unusual, fragile or unique your items are, the Mont-Rose Moving Systems team can help get them wherever they need to go, safely and securely.