That apartment.

[icarus]

You know, we're not sure we want this apartment.

- It's too dark. This is Seattle, it's grey, and we need light.

- It's ground floor so we'd have to keep the curtains shut since WG walks around naked all the time, so it would really be dark.

- WG is concerned about noise. The laundry room is right across the hall, and it's ground level, so he's concerned about street level noise as well.

- We both think our friends won't like how dark the place is and wouldn't want to spend time there, which negates one of the points of getting a new place.

It's a nice place, good location, but most apartments in Seattle have a better light situation, and that's important to us.

I think we've decided to call them and say no, we don't want it.

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[emeraldsword.livejournal.com]

My new accommodation is ground floor and I expect it's going to be very dark. Which will probably bother me a lot more than I realise yet as I'm used to living in light rooms, but even if my room's dark, maybe the rest of it will be light. The pictures she had of it showed light coming through the windows anyway...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Your new accommodation? Are you able to pick your room, is this an apartment you're renting or-?

[emeraldsword.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be renting a room in someone else's flat. At the moment, I'm renting a room in a shared house - there are four others here, it's a big house and only me and one other girl (who I don't get on with) actually do any cleaning so it tends to get steadily grubbier until I get fed up and give it my version of a proper clean (this occurs about once every couple of months, so you can see that I'm not a neat freak). Plus, the landlords are in Australia at the moment - they went for six months in January so naturally we've heard nothing from them since, until we emailed them to tell them about the letter we had from the bailiffs because they hadn't managed to set up a direct debit to pay the water bill. It will all be hilarious once I've actually moved out...

So, too many housemates I don't really like who never ever clean anything plus incompetent and long-distance landlords mean that I've decided to cut my losses and move on. From October 12th I will be living with one girl who is actually the owner of the flat and so has a vested financial interest in keeping it habitable. Fewer people to interact with = good, and she has a Bengal kitten which I will be able to play with but will not have to be responsible for! Instead of getting weird looks if I dare to mention science fiction, I will be able to borrow her sci-fi books and she's already invited me to join her book group (if one of my housemates weren't a journalist, I'd suspect the lot of them of being unable to read). Win-win.

the accommodation issue touches a nerve or two, could you tell?!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Er. Yeah.

*g*

[emeraldsword.livejournal.com]

*g* Sorry! I look forward to being a Proper Grown Up and not having housemates, but this day is still far off.