Housing - might be kinda boring
So i could really use everyone's advice about a new potential living situation. I've just lived in so many places in the last year and a half. I seem to have really good luck around places to live, give or take. One of the good things about living in so many places is that I know that I can create the kind of home I want in all different kinds of spaces.
So the place I'm looking at (and was just offered to me)is a medium sized one bedroom about a mile and a half away from work. It's a one bedroom for less than I'm paying now. I guess the big question is: Do I want to live alone again? I'm a little nervous about living alone because its about to be winter and you know how that seasonal depression already makes me feel isolated. The other side of that is that I don't really know who I would live with. My only other potential living situation is about $75 more a month and farther away from home for about the same size but with a roommate and a slightly better layout.
Maybe I should make a list:
Pros:
+Cheap one bedroom (ie i could live alone and not live in a studio which i really don't want to do)
+close to work
+non-corporate landlady and buildling where everyone knows each other
+cute neighborhood
+with how stressful work and social spaces can be living alone can be really nice because I know that I can have alone time when needed
+fell in my lap and I wouldn't have to apartment hunt anymore
+There would be a 2 week overlap and I would be able to move my stuff in slowly and not in one stressful weekend
+ now that I know more people in seattle I'm not as nervous about feeling isolated because I can construct social spaces for myself
+It's really nice to live alone when you're dating someone because you don't have to bug your roommate by having someone around the house all of the time
+It's only a six month lease so if I hate it I can move (even though I've moved every six months for the last year and a half)
Cons:
-not as convienent to bus to work
-living alone leaves me with some worries about seasonal depression and isolation/loneliness
- (the big one) I'm not in love with the set-up. It's a little awkwardly layed out
- the space is a little small for entertaining (something i love to do and have space for in my current house)
- I don't have any furniture so it would look a little said and barren for a little while
I guess the pros out weigh the cons. I'm just nervous about living in a space I'm not in love with and may never feel quite comfortable in. It makes me think about hillary's last place. About how I really don't like studios and her studio was so beautiful and well decorated, I loved it. With a little diy decorating any space can be beautiful.
ps- This also makes me think about how good so many of my denver friends are at constructing home spaces for themselves that feel really amazing to be in, are so beautiful and try and reflect their politial/social values. I'm thinking of how good it felt to be in anna's old one bedroom, hillary's old place, hillary and carolyn's new place, how I love brandi's new place (I keep thinking of us talking on the phone in our one-bedroom apartments and it feels very sex and the city. Which also makes me think about politics, isolation, capitalism and how we construct "young professional" as an island unto themselves which can make living alone seem "sexy", especially in what it says about class, the ability to afford to live alone, the term "bachelor pad" etc.)
So the place I'm looking at (and was just offered to me)is a medium sized one bedroom about a mile and a half away from work. It's a one bedroom for less than I'm paying now. I guess the big question is: Do I want to live alone again? I'm a little nervous about living alone because its about to be winter and you know how that seasonal depression already makes me feel isolated. The other side of that is that I don't really know who I would live with. My only other potential living situation is about $75 more a month and farther away from home for about the same size but with a roommate and a slightly better layout.
Maybe I should make a list:
Pros:
+Cheap one bedroom (ie i could live alone and not live in a studio which i really don't want to do)
+close to work
+non-corporate landlady and buildling where everyone knows each other
+cute neighborhood
+with how stressful work and social spaces can be living alone can be really nice because I know that I can have alone time when needed
+fell in my lap and I wouldn't have to apartment hunt anymore
+There would be a 2 week overlap and I would be able to move my stuff in slowly and not in one stressful weekend
+ now that I know more people in seattle I'm not as nervous about feeling isolated because I can construct social spaces for myself
+It's really nice to live alone when you're dating someone because you don't have to bug your roommate by having someone around the house all of the time
+It's only a six month lease so if I hate it I can move (even though I've moved every six months for the last year and a half)
Cons:
-not as convienent to bus to work
-living alone leaves me with some worries about seasonal depression and isolation/loneliness
- (the big one) I'm not in love with the set-up. It's a little awkwardly layed out
- the space is a little small for entertaining (something i love to do and have space for in my current house)
- I don't have any furniture so it would look a little said and barren for a little while
I guess the pros out weigh the cons. I'm just nervous about living in a space I'm not in love with and may never feel quite comfortable in. It makes me think about hillary's last place. About how I really don't like studios and her studio was so beautiful and well decorated, I loved it. With a little diy decorating any space can be beautiful.
ps- This also makes me think about how good so many of my denver friends are at constructing home spaces for themselves that feel really amazing to be in, are so beautiful and try and reflect their politial/social values. I'm thinking of how good it felt to be in anna's old one bedroom, hillary's old place, hillary and carolyn's new place, how I love brandi's new place (I keep thinking of us talking on the phone in our one-bedroom apartments and it feels very sex and the city. Which also makes me think about politics, isolation, capitalism and how we construct "young professional" as an island unto themselves which can make living alone seem "sexy", especially in what it says about class, the ability to afford to live alone, the term "bachelor pad" etc.)