Sorry I haven’t been around much… Lately I’ve been putting myself through the living hell known as apartment-hunting in New York City. By now I feel like I’ve been inside almost every apartment building in the city. It’s funny how your logic works during this process. When I first began this search, I knew exactly what sort of criteria I had in mind: Located near subway with easy commute to my office and to the cathedral, must have a real view (as opposed to looking at a brick wall), must be a one-bedroom, must be in a decent neighborhood, must have a dishwasher, must be rent-stabilized, preferably an art deco apartment with a sunken living room, etc., etc.<\/p>\n
Yeah, right. After about a week of looking, you get to the point where you’re saying to yourself, “Well, that one apartment had a decapitated body in the bath tub, but at least it’s near an express subway.”<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, I’m in the odd position of being able to afford one of two possible scenarios:<\/p>\n
A) A nice apartment in a shitty neighborhood, or<\/p>\n
B) A shitty apartment in a nice neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, I found an rare-but-adequate middle ground, and just got approved for a studio apartment that’s only moderately shitty in a neighborhood that’s only moderately shitty. And it’s on the express subway. I means I’ll have to go back to studio living after several years of having a real bedroom, but at this point it’s at least a big step up from having to live with a roommate, and my commute time to work will be cut in half.<\/p>\n
Even more importantly, I’ll finally be able to pull all my stuff out of storage and\u00a0be in a living situation that feels at least somewhat stable since I left Chicago over a year ago. I’ll be in this apartment for at least a year; by the end of March I’ll know what my grad school plans are and be able to make housing plans accordingly. If I end up at Columbia or City College I’ll most likely stay in the apartment; if I end up elsewhere I’ll obviously have to move elsewhere. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n
Assuming all goes well, I’ll be moving in on the 16th. Anybody want to help me move?\u00a0Now if I can just stick it out in Bushwick for another week and a half…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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