It's not like we're going to easily find a place this size, at a similar (or better yet cheaper) price, near here or closer to the city. Especially not if we were to start looking for a place that has one more bedroom than this place does.
And then we might have to contend with crappy landlords (ours at least are nice people who fix stuff immediately), or crappier properties (and I refuse to live in areas that are nasty, or places that are dirty or roach motels) and then you still run the risk of shitty neighbours too.
Plus moving in the third trimester, or with a newborn, is also not exactly going to be an option.
For all the little drawbacks this place has, it's not like we're easily going to find something that's as good or better for a similar price. We live a very short walk from good public transport into NYC. It's also much better than our previous place, being nicer, much bigger (1.5-2x) and cheaper (by several hundred if we factor in bills too) than the apartment we rented in one of those housing communities like the one you live in right now. And there we had some asshole neighbour downstairs who'd play rap, hip hop and r&b music crap on weekends (and many weekdays) starting at 8am, with the windows open.
The vacuuming and laundry stuff is a lot less annoying than hours and hours of that rap crap several days a week.
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Date: 2005-04-14 06:41 pm (UTC)It's not like we're going to easily find a place this size, at a similar (or better yet cheaper) price, near here or closer to the city. Especially not if we were to start looking for a place that has one more bedroom than this place does.
And then we might have to contend with crappy landlords (ours at least are nice people who fix stuff immediately), or crappier properties (and I refuse to live in areas that are nasty, or places that are dirty or roach motels) and then you still run the risk of shitty neighbours too.
Plus moving in the third trimester, or with a newborn, is also not exactly going to be an option.
For all the little drawbacks this place has, it's not like we're easily going to find something that's as good or better for a similar price. We live a very short walk from good public transport into NYC. It's also much better than our previous place, being nicer, much bigger (1.5-2x) and cheaper (by several hundred if we factor in bills too) than the apartment we rented in one of those housing communities like the one you live in right now. And there we had some asshole neighbour downstairs who'd play rap, hip hop and r&b music crap on weekends (and many weekdays) starting at 8am, with the windows open.
The vacuuming and laundry stuff is a lot less annoying than hours and hours of that rap crap several days a week.