Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] OT: Apartments

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Neil Bradshaw wrote:

> Eh, I'm $550 and I have FOUR BEDROOMS!

In San Diego, a three-bedroom apartment in a neighborhood where you should
budget about $500 per year in car vandalism expenses runs about $1200.
Thus, I tend to scoff at attempts to make 3-figure rental prices sound
expensive. :-)
 
> Wait, I have no pool. Damn you! But that Columbia Rec Center place
> will be right up the street. I'm wondering if it will have a pool.

Yup, although a family membership for a year will run $300-something
bucks.  Still, I'm *very* happy with my current situation; within two
years, I will be living two (long) blocks from the Rec Center, two (also
long) blocks from the local elementary school, an easy bike ride from the
new library and/or campus, within 3 blocks of 3 different grocery
stores...

> The Village is close to the mall and all that other stuff, also. 

Uh, do you mean the new Barnes & Noble, which I hear will have an attached
mall? :-) 

> We do have a tennis court...sort of. We could get DSL, but Verizon
> likes to violate its customers. Cable modem seems faster anyway.

It's certainly plenty fast where I live, although we had an outage
earlier this week that was pretty annoying. (First one in several months,
though.)

[I re-ordered stuff here by accident; I think the below refers to the
location of the mall.]

> That's the one thing I didn't like about living down on South
> Providence by Green Meadows. That and riding a bike to campus meant
> pedaling up a huge hill.

Yes, but if that were the only huge hill in town, I'd be a happy guy. :-)
Also, the weather here totally sucks for the casual biking life.  It's
tough to maintain a professional appearance after you've biked into work
on one of those lovely "heat index is 100 at 9 am" days like we've been
having...

jking

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