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VL-Tone
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Posted on 01-03-09 03:13:27 PM Link | Quote
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Tomorrow I'm moving...

For years I've lived in pretty noisy apartment buildings, more specifically in the last few years in a "rooming house", which was kind of like an apartment building, but with shared bathrooms and showers (used one at a time of course!). This place is full of drug addicts and alcoholics, talking loudly and shouting in the corridors at any time of the day or night, fighting... I can't even count the number of time the police had to intervene over the years. I could rarely be assured of any tranquility.

Now that I have a better job and salary, I can afford to move to a better and bigger apartment. I actually got a pretty good deal. It's only 150$ more than where I am now, but it's a big 3 1/2 instead of a small room (it must be at least 4x as big overall), and I'll be living at the second floor of a triplex house, in a nice calm neighborhood. It's much farther from a subway station and from my job, but I don't care much, at least I'll be able to relax and not be ashamed of inviting some friends for dinner.

I still have to continue packing my stuff all day before tomorrow morning, and clean the room so I don't leave too much of a mess

How about you guys? What kind of apartment are you living in? I guess that most of you are still living at your parents house, but anyone else got his own apartment?

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Posted on 01-03-09 03:28:49 PM (last edited by Fate Testarossa at 01-03-09 12:29 PM) Link | Quote
I'm pushing down a two-bed, one-bath apartment (around 800 sq. feet or so) to the tune of about 445 bucks a month. The community here isn't bad. There's been the usual spurt or two every so often for people being retarded but overall it's actually not half bad of a place to live in.

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Posted on 01-03-09 03:44:53 PM Link | Quote

I live in the middle of nowhere, and I'm still living with my parents (primarily because I'm 14 and that's my only option.) I'll try to move somewhere north later on in life. I've recently moved here, but it wasn't a very distant one. It was basically starting over, in the same nowhere - different house. New people - same attitudes.

In all cases, I hope your move goes well!

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Posted on 01-03-09 04:50:34 PM Link | Quote

I live down the street from Joe in a house my family built not long ago. I've lived here for a years so far, and the community is good with the occaisional jack-ass race down the street at top speed at midnight with a broken muffler crap. That hasn't really happened since the snow though. More of my friends live closer to this house.

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Posted on 01-03-09 05:52:19 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Fate Testarossa
I'm pushing down a two-bed, one-bath apartment (around 800 sq. feet or so) to the tune of about 445 bucks a month. The community here isn't bad. There's been the usual spurt or two every so often for people being retarded but overall it's actually not half bad of a place to live in.

Our place is a 1bedroom 1bathroom place, ~$450/m. Not too bad.

Except the staff here are idiots (habitually have a case of the stupids), and the neighbors have an annoying tendancy to THUD CRASH at random hours.

But yeah, good luck with a new place. That one you were living in sounded like a real winner

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Posted on 01-03-09 06:08:21 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Gig (kinda)
That one you were living in sounded like a real wiener


Hooray, misreading! (Except this time it actually works, since... yeah.)

I used to live in a fairly decent apartment, except we'd had bugs for quite a while, and mice even soon before we moved out. The landlord was a nice guy to talk to, but he was too focused on his money it felt like.

I actually own the place I live in now (was left in my name when my aunt died), and it lacks all those problems.

Good to hear you can move to a nicer place, anyway. Hope everything goes well!


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Posted on 01-03-09 07:09:00 PM (last edited by VL-Tone at 01-03-09 04:09 PM) Link | Quote
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Thanks for all the encouragements!

My god I got too much "useless" stuff... Tons of old electronic gadgets, vintage computers and synthesizers, computer and video-game magazines from the 80's and 90's, most of which I never use or even look at (it was all already in boxes because of the size of my current room). According to the "rules" of "house makeover" shows on tv, I should put all of this in the trash... I won't because I know I would regret it the rest of my life and eventually scour ebay to try to get everything back someday.

I'll have plenty of storage space in my new apartment, but it's kinda annoying to have to move all this when really the stuff I really use would fit in a couple of boxes.

BTW, since we're comparing prices, I'll be paying $460 (cdn)/month for 3 rooms (kitchen, bedroom and living room + bathroom and a shed at the back of the apartment). I'm currently paying $370/month for a small single room but that includes electricity. According to Hydro-Quebec, I'll pay around $45/month for electricity in my new place (but I suspect I may use more than the guy that was there).

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Posted on 01-03-09 07:17:11 PM Link | Quote
OMG it's so cheap where you guys live!!!!

I live in a 1/1 apartment and I think our rent is around 1K. It's a nice size apartment.

Only thing, is that the parking here blows. We just bought a garage today so we can insure that we will always have a spot to part. The garage is $75 a month, but we are splitting it with my father-in-law since he wants to put some of his items in the garage,

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Posted on 01-03-09 07:20:32 PM (last edited by VL-Tone at 01-03-09 04:22 PM) Link | Quote
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Montreal is one of the cheapest big city in terms of renting in Canada (and probably in North America), in Toronto I would be paying twice as much. Still I had a good deal, my sister works at the Cirque du Soleil and the apartment was advertised on the billboard there by someone else working there.

Now, back to packing!

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Posted on 01-03-09 08:24:56 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Anya
OMG it's so cheap where you guys live!!!!

I live in a 1/1 apartment and I think our rent is around 1K. It's a nice size apartment...


You're in Tamarac, Florida...duh? Since when was living in or around that area of Florida cheap?


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Posted on 01-03-09 08:56:09 PM Link | Quote
Actually, Tamarac was cheaper! We've since moved from there to Coral Springs. Can't complain about the location either. We have a Best Buy and a Circuit City...course the Circuit City looks like it was beaten up and spat out....plus its not that far from a major highway that takes me to work. Sure, its a 30 minute drive, but if I didn't live so close to the highway, it would be longer.

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Posted on 01-03-09 08:58:11 PM Link | Quote
Yea but location versus double-spend on the rest/house payment a month? I dunno...

I can bike to get groceries, worst case scenario, and I pay half what you do.

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Posted on 01-03-09 08:58:56 PM Link | Quote
Still Living with my parents while I attend University in town, since it'll be less than half the cost of attending Univ. where I'd need to use lodgings. Apartments around here are a couple hundred dollars a month, I think my stepbrother and his wife are paying ~$700 for a two bed one bath apartment with a pet and (in a couple days) baby.

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Posted on 01-05-09 10:07:52 PM Link | Quote
I just moved from a semi-detached house paying $100 (cdn) when the usual rent is $1k, due to us having virtually no income. However, now we pay $600 for rent, we moved from a three bedroom to a one bedroom, my brother has the bedroom, my mom sleeps on the couch in the living room, and I sleep behind a few large wooden things by the kitchen. Half of what we own is still in boxes. We moved because we were going from town to town every day, and we're generally in this town more than the one we moved from.

Also, no dishwasher. Got the cups out recently, and they're gonna be an ass to clean. Good thing I don't use too many dishes.

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Posted on 01-05-09 10:17:23 PM Link | Quote
I'm still living with my mom. She's renting a small house with my stepdad and his mom pitching in.
The house is behind a laundromat, so luckily enough, we're covered for water. Also, we get some of the price taken off the rent because we have the laundromat on the same Dish Network plan as us, so they got one of the receivers.

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