Apartment living adapting

[Ginevive]

Hey; is anyone else an apartment dweller (I am sure that someone is!) I had been living on a farm in NY; now in Cali, we live in an apartment complex on the ocean. The rent is high and hard to afford, but there are some things (like a gym, and a nice location) that make it worth it to me.

Sure, it is different, living around people again, living underneath and beside other people. But not that bad.. not any bad kids in the immediate vicinity..

Space is an issue though!! We have a studio (with a seperate bathroom and a kitchenette.) In it, there is me, my husband, my cat and 6 snakes, and salamander! And my girlfriend and her boyfriend are moving in too. Yay for packing lots of people into a 300-square-feet space!

I noticed though. Back at the farm, we had bout 800 sq. feet of space.. but we never used half of it anyway. Paring down, selling alot of baggage, has really made me happier as a person.

I am adapting well though, I think. Home is just a place to crash between work and fun outdoor stuff.

How is your apartment life? Anything to look out for in the future? It's not a high-rise; more like, seperate buildings (and wowee, we even have a little patio!) Parking is an issue; not a huge one, but we only get one parking spot in the garage.. so we do have to joust for TIGHT parallell parking out on the street!

[Denial]

use to be an ill never go back lol. Hvaing stacks of 6 foot cages and racks cramed into your bedroom and not being able to sleep because the cages raising the temp in the room to over 80. Neighbors banging on the walls and running up and down and up and down. And I wouldnt be able to have my dogs there. It is so hard housing large constrictors in apartment buildings lol.

[Neal]

I don't live in an apartment, but I do rent the house I stay in. I am rooming with a chick I met on craigslist that was looking for a roommate, it works out great too. To some people they would say I live in the "ghetto" because some of my neighbors are black, but in all truth. This neighborhood is quiet, nobody messes with anybody, no cops come down here, no sirens and such. I think it's a great neighborhood. I wish I could live by the ocean though like you, I would go skinny dipping 24/7. lol

[2kdime]

Lived in an apartment once, hated it.

Neighbor kids always stomping around.

I kicked a hole in our wall trying to bang back at them.

I was forced to call the cops on them once for scaring my fiance one morning.....

Manager never gave a crap about nothin....

If your managing, congrats to you. It must be better than where I was at.

I'm homey, I like it nice and quiet

[spitfireashlea]

<- I has apartment. I has rage.

[mainbutter]

I live in an apartment and for the most I'm fine with it. My neighbors are perfect (quiet and I don't ever see them), I get left to my own devices by the management, and the one time I had a leak a quick call to maintenance got it checked out and fixed in a timely fashion.

I wish I had the money and time to buy and keep up a house on some farmland out in nowheresville county minnesota. I'd love to have a garage I could do work in, somewhere to keep a couple watercraft(at LEAST I wish I had somewhere to keep a canoe), and I wish I had the space to start a rodent colony and really begin to expand my reptile collection.

I want a garden, chickens, ducks, and a herd of alpacas.

Those things will come in time. For now I have it pretty good having a nice sized 2 BR apartment to myself, which lets me dedicate one room to my pets.

to the OP, I just want to say good luck with fitting two couples in a studio apartment.. I will never EVER live somewhere that would force me into that situation due ridiculous rent. I'd love to move in with my girl, but I would never want to share a single 300 sq foot room with another couple.

[SlitherinSisters]

Oh my goodness I'm SOOO glad to be out of apartment life! I couldn't image 300 sq ft and you're adding two more people! Oh man good luck!

I'll agree that we don't use a 1/3 of our house (900 sq ft +basement), but man I don't mind the space! The one thing I really didn't like about apartment life is you always had to worry about being quiet, making sure your pets were quiet, listening to your neighbors fighting and their 15 year-old-daughter, uh...having boys over, and dealing with landlords. I just love not having a landlord

+ our mortgage is only $50 more than we were paying for rent, so I really like having my own house.

[tweets_4611]

Wow... it looks like I'm the minority here. I actually have no problems with the apartment I'm in now. But I also spent a lot of time last year looking at places and finding a complex that wasn't managed by a big company.

I live in a college town (as a college kid) and the first apartment I had wasn't too bad. I didn't really hear my neighbors, and when I did it was still pretty quiet. They fixed things pretty promptly but it was too far away from campus and their pet policy was ridiculous.

The place I'm at now is much better. I haven't been here long enough to know how quick they are about repairs, but the landlords are great, and so are the neighbors. I live right next to campus and there is just a parking lot separating the complex from a bar, so it gets a bit noisy on Thrus-Sat nights. It's an older building so I hear the neighbors much more often, but they aren't loud people...it's just old insulation. (The upstairs neighbors are super sweet....they even came in to see me at work ^_^ ) I really enjoy it though while I'm in school. I don't have to worry about fixing things, I have just enough space for what I need, and it's a great location.

One day I'll be in a house, but I have no problems with apartment living...however I'm a pretty tolerant person ^_^

[MarkS]

I've lived in a lot of apartments, hated every one. The only way I'll ever go back to having the neighbors the thickness of a wall away again is if I'm either arrested or committed.

[Elise.m]

I love my little apartment! It's just my boyfriend and I, and of course Snickets. She doesn't take up much room though.

We have neighbors on the side and behind us. The ones on the side just moved out, and the ones behind us hardly ever make noise. The one time they did (Blaring loud music at 12:00am when my boyfriend had to get up at 3:00am) I called the cops to file a noise complaint and ever since then they've been quiet. I'm not sure what's going on over there though, they used to have multiple cars, used to be able to hear doors shut, now there's no car that parks in their spot and they hardly make noise. I don't really care, it's nice.

I like tight small places (No wonder I like BPs). Although I wish my kitchen were a bit bigger. Smaller places = Less stuff = no messes, no cleaning.

In California, apartments vary alot. We have a tiny one, we pay a pretty cheap price for it. Our friends just moved outside SF, their apartment isn't too much bigger than ours and they're paying over twice of what we are. Nice community though, ours is ok. Parking is such a pain though. We have one parking spot, and we use that for our Charger. Then we have my BF's work truck, and my little car. We have to park on the side of the road, which has been easier as of lately, I think more people are moving.

Anywho, I'd like a house to call my own and actually decorate, but I'm happy in my small somewhat secure apartment for the time being. It's much nicer on our bank accounts!