Where will we go?
Jul. 15th, 2005 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaYou know, moving is an adventure and I should be treating it more like that instead of a burden.
As long as there's public transportation I can take to work, I wouldn't mind a long commute. Actually, since I convert back to 10hr days later this month, even a long commute by car wouldn't be too bad. Especially once I'm back in school. I'd becoming in at 6AM and heading home at 10. My commut from Santa Cruz took 45 minutes at those times and 2 hours at peak commute times.
So, I should think about this. Where do I _WANT_ to live? I mean I could ride the train up from Gilroy or down from San Francisco if I really wanted to. For that matter, I could take the Santa Cruz 17 express if I were so inclined.
I miss Santa Cruz a lot. Might be nice to move back there. Sun and beach. The city seems to isolate me from the woods. I need to wander as much as I need to paint and animate. Definetely a possibility. Stacey has friends there and my friends are always looking for an excuse to go there. No good korean markets though. No kimchee. But... surfing and hiking. Still a long commute but I could try out books on tape.
There's also the mystic appeal of 'THE CITY'. I've never lived in any real city. Always in the country or in the suburbs. It might be an interesting change to live actually _in_ San Francisco.
On the other hand, I'm likely to get the most space for my money with living pretty near where I am now. It's not all bad. There are lots of good supermarkets here and I like living somewhere with real actual cultural diversity. More practically, I like DeAnza and I'd like to actually get a degree in _something_ one of these days. *sigh* Stacey and I looked at a place yesterday. It met all of our technical requirements. I'm going to drop off a form today. It's a little run down. Also an apartment. Not even an end unit but one between others. At least it's upstairs/downstairs so only 2 neighbors but... I dunno. It's smaller than what we have but 200 less. No yard, of course. Not even a yardlet. No deck either. No outdoor space. If it were an end unit, I might be able to cope. I guess all I really worry about is being able to work on projects and noise when I'm recording sound. It's affordable and a middle unit. I know it'll be screaming kids on one side, loud TV sitcoms on the other.
I suppose since it's a 1.5 bath and the downstairs one was in the middle of the apartment and rather spacious that I can pad the walls and use it as a sound booth. That'll work. Also, it gives me the opportunity to have a darkroom again. That'd be nice too. So it's not the end of the world but it seems like I'm giving up a lot for $200/mo. (Although, realistically, that is 1/6th of my current rent, so it's not surprising)
As long as there's public transportation I can take to work, I wouldn't mind a long commute. Actually, since I convert back to 10hr days later this month, even a long commute by car wouldn't be too bad. Especially once I'm back in school. I'd becoming in at 6AM and heading home at 10. My commut from Santa Cruz took 45 minutes at those times and 2 hours at peak commute times.
So, I should think about this. Where do I _WANT_ to live? I mean I could ride the train up from Gilroy or down from San Francisco if I really wanted to. For that matter, I could take the Santa Cruz 17 express if I were so inclined.
I miss Santa Cruz a lot. Might be nice to move back there. Sun and beach. The city seems to isolate me from the woods. I need to wander as much as I need to paint and animate. Definetely a possibility. Stacey has friends there and my friends are always looking for an excuse to go there. No good korean markets though. No kimchee. But... surfing and hiking. Still a long commute but I could try out books on tape.
There's also the mystic appeal of 'THE CITY'. I've never lived in any real city. Always in the country or in the suburbs. It might be an interesting change to live actually _in_ San Francisco.
On the other hand, I'm likely to get the most space for my money with living pretty near where I am now. It's not all bad. There are lots of good supermarkets here and I like living somewhere with real actual cultural diversity. More practically, I like DeAnza and I'd like to actually get a degree in _something_ one of these days. *sigh* Stacey and I looked at a place yesterday. It met all of our technical requirements. I'm going to drop off a form today. It's a little run down. Also an apartment. Not even an end unit but one between others. At least it's upstairs/downstairs so only 2 neighbors but... I dunno. It's smaller than what we have but 200 less. No yard, of course. Not even a yardlet. No deck either. No outdoor space. If it were an end unit, I might be able to cope. I guess all I really worry about is being able to work on projects and noise when I'm recording sound. It's affordable and a middle unit. I know it'll be screaming kids on one side, loud TV sitcoms on the other.
I suppose since it's a 1.5 bath and the downstairs one was in the middle of the apartment and rather spacious that I can pad the walls and use it as a sound booth. That'll work. Also, it gives me the opportunity to have a darkroom again. That'd be nice too. So it's not the end of the world but it seems like I'm giving up a lot for $200/mo. (Although, realistically, that is 1/6th of my current rent, so it's not surprising)
