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SEP 20, 2007 06:25 PM
SEP 20, 2007 08:10 PM
Subrosa said:
nonbillable said:
The best advice is to get a significant other and make it serious--it may or may not be healthy for the relationship, but it definitely gets you more square footage for your $.
I'll second this. I'm importing mine from the midwest, actually. Saves me the hassle of having to get rid of all my stuff when she gets here.
Yes, but in your case, at least, you'll be adding the hassle of moving in with someone who will never, ever believe that whatever you end up paying for rent in that city isn't absolute, insufferable robbery, and who will bitch and moan to that effect on every first day of the month when rent is due, and who will remind you on not-infrequent occasion that in certain other glorious cities, you could get twice the space in twice the neighborhood for half the price.
SEP 20, 2007 08:16 PM
Necia said:
Subrosa said:
nonbillable said:
The best advice is to get a significant other and make it serious--it may or may not be healthy for the relationship, but it definitely gets you more square footage for your $.
I'll second this. I'm importing mine from the midwest, actually. Saves me the hassle of having to get rid of all my stuff when she gets here.
Yes, but in your case, at least, you'll be adding the hassle of moving in with someone who will never, ever believe that whatever you end up paying for rent in that city isn't absolute and insufferable robbery, and who will bitch and moan to that effect on every first day of the month when rent is due, and who will remind you on not-infrequent occasion that in certain other glorious cities, you could get twice the space in twice the neighborhood for half the price.
Well ya, but you have to factor in the cost of the car, license, insurance and chauffeur fees that you won't need here. So it's more like twice the house in twice the neighborhood for 7/10ths the price. To be fair.
SEP 20, 2007 08:29 PM
Subrosa said:
Necia said:
Subrosa said:
nonbillable said:
The best advice is to get a significant other and make it serious--it may or may not be healthy for the relationship, but it definitely gets you more square footage for your $.
I'll second this. I'm importing mine from the midwest, actually. Saves me the hassle of having to get rid of all my stuff when she gets here.
Yes, but in your case, at least, you'll be adding the hassle of moving in with someone who will never, ever believe that whatever you end up paying for rent in that city isn't absolute and insufferable robbery, and who will bitch and moan to that effect on every first day of the month when rent is due, and who will remind you on not-infrequent occasion that in certain other glorious cities, you could get twice the space in twice the neighborhood for half the price.
Well ya, but you have to factor in the cost of the car, license, insurance and chauffeur fees that you won't need here. So it's more like twice the house in twice the neighborhood for 7/10ths the price. To be fair.
I repeat: ROBBERY! INSUFFERABLE! SERIOUS!
SEP 20, 2007 09:41 PM
Necia said:
Subrosa said:
Necia said:
Subrosa said:
nonbillable said:
The best advice is to get a significant other and make it serious--it may or may not be healthy for the relationship, but it definitely gets you more square footage for your $.
I'll second this. I'm importing mine from the midwest, actually. Saves me the hassle of having to get rid of all my stuff when she gets here.
Yes, but in your case, at least, you'll be adding the hassle of moving in with someone who will never, ever believe that whatever you end up paying for rent in that city isn't absolute and insufferable robbery, and who will bitch and moan to that effect on every first day of the month when rent is due, and who will remind you on not-infrequent occasion that in certain other glorious cities, you could get twice the space in twice the neighborhood for half the price.
Well ya, but you have to factor in the cost of the car, license, insurance and chauffeur fees that you won't need here. So it's more like twice the house in twice the neighborhood for 7/10ths the price. To be fair.
I repeat: ROBBERY! INSUFFERABLE! SERIOUS!
He's stealin' our wimmens!
SEP 20, 2007 10:44 PM
I just moved to Colorado Springs from Boston, and let me just say, my rent here for a 2 bedroom 2 and 1/2 bathroom with a fireplace, amazing kitchen, jacuzzi tub in the master bath, its own courtyard, etc is the same as my rent for a tiny ass studio apartment in a shady neighborhood by Fenway Park.
Granted, I'm not within walking distance of anything out here, but it's nice to drive around by the mountains and be able to breathe pollution free! 
But yeah, everything is cheaper out here. In Boston I could barely make $100 stretch for a week, and I didn't even have a car there, so I couldn't blame gas. It's just hard to live in an expensive city without a decent job. Even when I was working in Boston, my entire check was going to utilities and my internet/cable bills. All that is so much cheaper here. I'm amazed!
SEP 21, 2007 05:57 AM
Sid said:
but it's nice to drive around by the mountains and be able to breathe pollution free!
Not for long, apparently!
jason
USA
August 2002
SEP 20, 2007 05:28 PM