and then i realised i'd have buyers' remorse no matter what i chose ...
i have a place to live, and even someone to live with. (the lease starts on monday; decisions were made a while ago now.) awesome.
there are a number of extremely nice things about the place - greenery on the street, near a "cute little business district", an appropriately nice kitchen, close to the climbing wall, a landlord who treats me like a thinking feeling human being (<3) (hell, even a previous tenant who obviously poured her love into the place), near a park, ........
two things that i kind of had my heart set on i didn't manage to satisfy: it isn't immediately next to anybody else i know, and it isn't immediately next to a grocery store. i keep seeing these as some huge failure, even though it's a huge improvement over where i currently live, and everybody i talk to makes it seem that the location is just fine. (and it's five minutes to trader joe's by bike...) iono.
i went over to the place again a couple days ago to effect payment to the current tenant for some kitchen shelving she's leaving behind for us, and as i started biking home through shadyside all i could think of was how any of those slightly-better-located places around me i might've had if only i'd played the market differently. interestingly, as soon as i started getting into oakland, the world promptly turned around and i was thrilled at the idea of having an upgrade, however non-optimal, in all possible aspects from what i currently have.
is it right to think of the places that i looked at but couldn't get and was more enthusiastic about at the time now only in terms of their flaws, as though to trick myself into believing they were worse? or am i just supposed to hang on tight until i finish moving in and let the "new home" feelings settle in and slowly take care of that for me?
research is getting harder to motivate myself for and other assorted chores are getting easier. now that's a new one. (assorted chores seem not to take too much time that precludes me from packing, though it's not like i don't waste more time than i'd spend on research anyway.) i am a responsible adult and a helpless child all at the same time.
setting out to meet my new housemate in person for the first time tomorrow morning - excitement!
there are a number of extremely nice things about the place - greenery on the street, near a "cute little business district", an appropriately nice kitchen, close to the climbing wall, a landlord who treats me like a thinking feeling human being (<3) (hell, even a previous tenant who obviously poured her love into the place), near a park, ........
two things that i kind of had my heart set on i didn't manage to satisfy: it isn't immediately next to anybody else i know, and it isn't immediately next to a grocery store. i keep seeing these as some huge failure, even though it's a huge improvement over where i currently live, and everybody i talk to makes it seem that the location is just fine. (and it's five minutes to trader joe's by bike...) iono.
i went over to the place again a couple days ago to effect payment to the current tenant for some kitchen shelving she's leaving behind for us, and as i started biking home through shadyside all i could think of was how any of those slightly-better-located places around me i might've had if only i'd played the market differently. interestingly, as soon as i started getting into oakland, the world promptly turned around and i was thrilled at the idea of having an upgrade, however non-optimal, in all possible aspects from what i currently have.
is it right to think of the places that i looked at but couldn't get and was more enthusiastic about at the time now only in terms of their flaws, as though to trick myself into believing they were worse? or am i just supposed to hang on tight until i finish moving in and let the "new home" feelings settle in and slowly take care of that for me?
research is getting harder to motivate myself for and other assorted chores are getting easier. now that's a new one. (assorted chores seem not to take too much time that precludes me from packing, though it's not like i don't waste more time than i'd spend on research anyway.) i am a responsible adult and a helpless child all at the same time.
setting out to meet my new housemate in person for the first time tomorrow morning - excitement!