It’s a studio, so it’s smaller and cheaper and easier to care for, but that’s not it. The reasons so far:
My tiny kitchen has more cupboard space — and a pantry! — than the previous kitchen. So I’ve sacrificed some floor space; so what, it makes it that much easier to fill the cat’s water bowl.
The hot water stays hot for ages. In the previous place I was lucky if I’d get fifteen minutes of actual hot water in the shower with the super water-saver shower head I installed myself. Here I use the gusher that came with the apartment and I can stay in the shower as long as I want.
More reasons later, as I realize them.
Update: okay, one more reason — trains! I’m right next to the tracks here. Since the railroad runs right through the middle of Orlando there’s no complete escape from train sounds, but now I get them up close and personal. Call me crazy, I love the sound of trains
4 Responses to “Reasons why my new apartment is awesome, Part 1”
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May 9th, 2008 at 5:48 am
I live a block from the north-south Amtrak/CSX tracks. LOVE it. Much too quiet when I have to sleep somewhere else.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:13 am
Except for the trains, it’s actually pretty quiet here. At my old apartment I had traffic noise from I-4, which I didn’t mind, and the people chattering on their cell phones outside, which I did.
May 10th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I think the farthest I’ve ever lived from a railroad line was about four miles when we lived in North Pole, Alaska. Of course, when it’s really, really, really cold it can sound like the train’s running only about half a mile away.
May 12th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
You get used to the noise of trains.
My grandparents lived opposite the train tracks on the Boulevarde at Punchbowlistan, that’s between Lebkemba and Bankstan, in Sydney.
I loved the trains when I was a kid. Eventually you wouldn’t notice it.
I’m not used to it now, though.
Now I live 7kilomteres out of town and I can hear the diesel trains in town shunting in the winter.