Ah, we have finally reached the part one of the blog about the move. I thought we'd never catch up, and yet look how far we've come so quickly! Hello again.
Logan and I are now current residents of Boston, Massachusetts. Not official I guess, since we haven't gotten driver's licenses yet or even moved into our apartment, but we've been here for about 2 weeks so that counts for something, right?
We came out here a couple months ago to search for a place and it was pretty much a nightmare. You can't just go look at places to rent here, you have to go through a realtor, which is a huge hassle. They take you around to these ridiculously crummy places that no one should ever even consider living in, all the while feeding you the same lies about how "this is actually a really nice place. This is the nicest place you are going to find in this area, for sure!" Nevermind that the rent is like, quadruple what you would pay for a house payment in other states, it's cool. I like the idea of paying literally thousands of dollars for this quaint little closet of an apartment with mold coming through the ceiling and rats living by the heater. Juuuust swell. I'll just buy a nose plug and breathe through my mouth so I don't have to smell what I can only assume are the decaying remnants of the tenants who lived here when this place might have been acceptable back in the early 1900s when it was built. super! Sign me up for some of that scummed bathroom with the broken toilet!
Whew. Now that we have that out in the open, we'll just say we had a rough week or so here apartment searching and things were looking pretty dim (literally- I don't think some of these places had working electricity). This was us:
Logan and I are now current residents of Boston, Massachusetts. Not official I guess, since we haven't gotten driver's licenses yet or even moved into our apartment, but we've been here for about 2 weeks so that counts for something, right?
We came out here a couple months ago to search for a place and it was pretty much a nightmare. You can't just go look at places to rent here, you have to go through a realtor, which is a huge hassle. They take you around to these ridiculously crummy places that no one should ever even consider living in, all the while feeding you the same lies about how "this is actually a really nice place. This is the nicest place you are going to find in this area, for sure!" Nevermind that the rent is like, quadruple what you would pay for a house payment in other states, it's cool. I like the idea of paying literally thousands of dollars for this quaint little closet of an apartment with mold coming through the ceiling and rats living by the heater. Juuuust swell. I'll just buy a nose plug and breathe through my mouth so I don't have to smell what I can only assume are the decaying remnants of the tenants who lived here when this place might have been acceptable back in the early 1900s when it was built. super! Sign me up for some of that scummed bathroom with the broken toilet!
Whew. Now that we have that out in the open, we'll just say we had a rough week or so here apartment searching and things were looking pretty dim (literally- I don't think some of these places had working electricity). This was us:
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| woo! first subway ride in Boston! we're off to find our new place to live! |
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| get us out of this horrible, wretched wasteland. I don't wanna sleep with rats! So that was that. But then, on one of our last days here before we were flying back to Utah, we met up with a realtor who showed us these really great places! Just when I had lost all hope and resorted to thinking all Massachusians must live in smelly dirty holes! It was a miracle. We found a place, and in another week or so it will be ready to move in to. That's the downside- it wasn't ready to move in to until like, 3 weeks after we had to be here. But we're living in a cute little home for the time being, and it's not bad. I'm just ready to get my stuff out of storage and start unpacking! Anyway, on that last trip, once we'd found our apartment and breathed a HUGE sigh of relief, we did some fun things. We found the Necco World Headquarters...  We went to a free concert in the park and watched poncho sanchez in our ponchos.  This opening act's equipment was powered by the bikes these people on stage were riding     And we went to the park and saw swan boats and beautiful weeping willows So the trip wasn't totally a bust :) I'm excited to move into our new place and get settled. It feels strange that we moved here, but we don't have any of our stuff. I was going to just include the whole trip out here and what we've done since we've been here in this post, but I think I'll save that for next time. To be continued and all that.... |
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