The devil you know
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"Hooray," I need to move sometime in the next several months!
My landlady has begun taking steps to assess and likely sell the condo I have rented from her since coming to Boston for this job 5 1/2 years ago. She said she would offer me right of first refusal to buy it, but since I probably can't afford its market rate, nor do I think I'd want to spend that kind of money on a ground-floor one-bedroom with a list of issues anyway, it's time to hunt.
Which means finding realtors/brokers, answering the "rent vs. buy" question—nothing like trying to gauge how long you plan on staying in one place when you are at the same time wondering how much you like your job anymore—recalculating budgets, navigating the fact that more than 70% of Boston-area apartments turn over on June 1 or September 1, paring down belongings in advance of packing...
Sigh. I like stability. I was not planning on shopping for a new home this summer—or sooner. Then again, this is an opportunity to improve some bothersome things, like not being able to arrange furniture in a satisfying way for company or park in a driveway.
The stop-motion cartoon Rilakkuma and Kaoru did not deliver the comfort I sought but did instead offer the counsel I needed when I watched an episode after the landlady's phone call. Rilakkuma befriended some snowmen only to wake up the next day to discover that they had melted. "It's impossible for them to stay the same forever," Kaoru soothed him as he cried. Then the closing aphorism said: THINGS CHANGE.
.
Speaking of cycles and change: friends seem to be going through a full range of experiences lately.
[talk of pregnancy, babies, grief]
I have a friend who just had a baby, a friend who just lost a baby, a friend who's recently pregnant, a friend who's wrestling with trying to get pregnant.
I have a friend who was fired unexpectedly, a friend who started a new job one year to the day after being fired, a friend who's afraid of being fired every day even though she keeps being given raises.
Etc.
Take care of yourselves out there, everyone.
My landlady has begun taking steps to assess and likely sell the condo I have rented from her since coming to Boston for this job 5 1/2 years ago. She said she would offer me right of first refusal to buy it, but since I probably can't afford its market rate, nor do I think I'd want to spend that kind of money on a ground-floor one-bedroom with a list of issues anyway, it's time to hunt.
Which means finding realtors/brokers, answering the "rent vs. buy" question—nothing like trying to gauge how long you plan on staying in one place when you are at the same time wondering how much you like your job anymore—recalculating budgets, navigating the fact that more than 70% of Boston-area apartments turn over on June 1 or September 1, paring down belongings in advance of packing...
Sigh. I like stability. I was not planning on shopping for a new home this summer—or sooner. Then again, this is an opportunity to improve some bothersome things, like not being able to arrange furniture in a satisfying way for company or park in a driveway.
The stop-motion cartoon Rilakkuma and Kaoru did not deliver the comfort I sought but did instead offer the counsel I needed when I watched an episode after the landlady's phone call. Rilakkuma befriended some snowmen only to wake up the next day to discover that they had melted. "It's impossible for them to stay the same forever," Kaoru soothed him as he cried. Then the closing aphorism said: THINGS CHANGE.
.
Speaking of cycles and change: friends seem to be going through a full range of experiences lately.
[talk of pregnancy, babies, grief]
I have a friend who just had a baby, a friend who just lost a baby, a friend who's recently pregnant, a friend who's wrestling with trying to get pregnant.
I have a friend who was fired unexpectedly, a friend who started a new job one year to the day after being fired, a friend who's afraid of being fired every day even though she keeps being given raises.
Etc.
Take care of yourselves out there, everyone.
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Date: May. 1st, 2019 11:35 am (UTC)If there's anything I can help with locally, let me know.
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Date: May. 1st, 2019 05:16 pm (UTC)