Tonight I am finally starting to look at a prospective apartments. It's been an up and down discussion with Fiance, but I think we've finally decided to appease his uberreligious parents and live in separate apartments until we're married, despite the fact that we've been together for more than eight years and have basically been living together (for safety reasons) since I moved here. So, while we were originally looking for a starter home to invest in, I now have to begin the arduous search for a lower-rent apartment, in hopes that I'll find a perfect place for both of us to live a year an a half from now when we're finally married.
I'm by no means a picky person, especially when it comes to living accommodations. I spent the majority of my childhood in a century-old farmhouse out in the boondocks, so just about anything has that beat. For the past year, I've been living in a newly-renovated, overpriced one-bedroom which regularly gets tagged by the local gangs. My guy friends always have suggestions about where I should move, but for some reason their idea of perfect living always involves a roommate. I lived with a friend for three years prior to graduation. Since then, I've pretty much resolved never to live with another human being again until forced to do so by marriage. Realistically, I think I just needed some time to myself. Post-Roommate, I moved into an apartment which was literally down the street from Fiance. People constantly asked why we didn't just ignore his parents and move in together, but in my mind, the negatives outweighed the positives. The positives were that we'd both save a ton of money and we'd get to spend a lot of time together. The negatives were that I might have to kill him.
The apartment I'm looking at tonight is an amazing compromise for us. Fiance's current roommate is moving back to our hometown, so now he's looking for a cheap place (with roommates!) and will most likely be moving in with our guy friends in a lower level apartment in a decent-looking colonial house. With any luck, I will be moving into the two bedroom apartment upstairs. Now, if only the place is a not a total dump, I'll save a few hundred bucks a month and be within a 10-second walk of most of my friends in a much, much better neighborhood. It's a good thing that a place would have to be pretty awful to fall below my standards.
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good luck with the apartment hunting. I hope you get that two bedroom and that it turns out to be awesome! i know how stressful apartment hunting can be!! Hopefully it all turns out for the best,