Ric, if you are as desparate as you make yourself out to be, I would highly recommend checking out Euclid's offer. Depending on *where* in Affoltern, it could be only 5-8 minutes by direct bus from Oerlikon...
And no, I have no vested interests here - just noticed your profile says you are in Basel so you may not know exactly where Affoltern is... beyond thinking, perhaps rightly, that Kreis 11 sounds miles out on the fringes of Zurich.