We've now been in our new apartment for just a little bit more than a month, & it's safe to say that we love it. Did I mention that we signed a three-year lease?! It's so amazing to know that we're not moving again for awhile, that this is home - that we can just settle in & enjoy.
Here's a quick look at life in our new place.
The Good
- The space: This apartment is bigger than our old one, including a giant living room & a very big kitchen, plus a basement where we can store some of our stuff. More on some of the specific spaces later, but suffice it to say it's nice to have more space, period.
- The location: We're in the same neighborhood as before, an area we absolutely love, but now we're in a quieter, shadier part of town. Though there's more foot traffic, there's less car traffic, so it's closer to the action but also much quieter than our old place. Win/win!
- The sunlight: This place is so bright & sunny! Our old place was very dark, which was cozy but also sort of depressing. Now, I rarely have to turn on a light before it gets dark out, & it's just so pleasant inside.
- The front porch: How amazing is it to be able to sit on a front porch with a book & a beer, enjoying the weather & watching the world go by? Really amazing, lemme tellya.
- The lack of neighbors: We're in a duplex with neighbors above us & no one immediately on either side. It's pretty sound-proof, too, so we can really only hear the upstairs neighbors when they're walking heavily or playing loud music, which is rarely.
- The laundry: We have an in-unit washer & dryer off our bedroom! Nothing makes me feel more like a boring adult than my level of enthusiasm about this development, but I'm not ashamed.
- The air conditioning: Another top-notch element of the new space is the fact that it's fully summer-ready with central air, which is tied for The Best Thing™, given how sweaty I am.
Whew, that's a lot of stuff - but seriously, doesn't this place sound lovely? Of course, not everything can be perfect, so here are a few of the less-lovely elements of our new apartment - which, yes, we'll also be dealing with for the next three years:
The Bad
- The bugs: 'Tis the season for gross bugs, especially since we're on the first floor & under some trees. Most distressing are the house centipedes, which I kill by trapping under a cup & flushing down the toilet. Cuz I'm a wuss.
- The yard: Ugh, we have a yard. Other people would be pumped about this, but I'm not, mainly because we're responsible for maintaining it, & yard work is tops on my list of least favorite things to do in life.
- The passersby: We're on the first floor and in the center of the neighborhood action, so it's sometimes awkward to have our windows open and/or our blinds up. Too close for comfort!
- The closets: There are only two of them, & man, are they small - but we're making do by paring down, staying organized, & using the basement for extra storage.
- The distance to my favorite coffee shop: Look, this is a very whiny complaint because my go-to cafe is still only .5 miles away - but it used to be 20 steps away. Now I have to plan better if I want to grab coffee before a meeting. The horror!
Just kidding. I'm comin' up empty on this one!There's literally nothing ugly to report, except maybe that I found a decaying bird skeleton underneath our back porch - but that's not the house's fault, now, is it?
In other words: We're happy here, & I'm happy to be happy here.
Tell me: What's the best/worst thing about wherever you live?
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