...and it's yours for just $1,181.01 a month!
Day three of house hunting finds me camped out at the Natural Cafe in the borough of Chiswick, using their free internet (the only place in a radius of three kilometers) and drinking cup after cup of mint tea in the hopes of dispelling the ticklings of a sore throat (and ensuring I remain camped at the Natural Cafe.) But they're closing up now, so I'll have to head for 'home' and hope tomorrow's hunt is more fruitful.
It's really difficult, this house hunting thing. I would like to stay in Chiswick, as it's a trendy fun place, but when I read adds like this:
Larg [sic] room in lovely flatshare all inclusive (£130 pw)
Very large room in a clean and tidy flat in Chiswick.
All bills inclusive.
10 minutes walk from Turnham Green tube station.
Such a detailed add! Really makes me want to take it - oh yeah, especially when that works out to be $1,181 CDN a month. Remember: that's one room in the house. You'd be sharing the bathroom, living room and kitchen with other people.
(How's my sarcasm? I've never been particularly good at identifying or applying it, but in
I have no patience for waiting out for the perfect house (or wasting time with vague adds), not when places like thegumtree.com has added 1,000 new rooms to let today alone! I've been doing this house hunting thing almost every four months in the last two years and I'm so so over it. I want to find somewhere to stick down roots (small ones) for the next six months.
Six months... that's how long I'm able to stay in the
Okay, so positive visualisation, and all that. What exactly do I want in a house? What's my ideal place right now?
- Ground floor flat, close to the toilets, kitchen and backyard (so as to not hear the door opening and closing in the middle of the nights as other housemates come home)
- Hardwood floors, central heating and newly renovated (most houses in
- A view of either the backyard or pretty street
- Bathtub for soaking after long days of working (many houses don't have a bathtub)
- Landline so I can call home without using my mobile
- Easy-going, non-fussy housemates. No bizarre or aggressive, either. And non who smoke.
Sadly, it's not possible to gauge all that from the above add.
Well, fingers crossed - I want to move by Sunday - wish me luck.
posted by Lightfooted @ 1:14 p.m.
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5 Comments:
that doesn't sound like much fun :( and I nearly died at the price - ack!
good luck!
wow, you don't ask for much. Sarcasm? Good luck. I'm sure something will pop out for ya and you can settle a little more and relax in your tub.
Ack, ack! Splutter! Hey! I just asked for easy-going, non-fussy housemates!
...Okay, so perhaps I've been freaked out one too many times by drunk aggressive men from certain parts of Africa; ...and I might of had a problem with certain housemates who yell at me in broken English "You - problems, always problems!" after only three days of living with them; and perhaps I've been turned off by religious fanatics... or whinging Brits, but Ryan... you're not supposed to go around telling the truth!
Sheesh...
Whoops... by "truths" I mean gross generalisations based on singular incidents which, by trial of induction, cannot rationally or logically support the premise that the above group of defamed people, as a whole, are difficult to get-along with or fussy.
I would certainly be open to living with any one who will live with me, a now-marked woman of prejudice.
(And I DO like Polish cooking - especially from Na Zdrowie, The Polish Bar. Devine food! And the choices of vodkas - rosewater vodka shot... mmm!)
She desperately splutters while attempting to remove one of her feet from her mouth!
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