Comments on: Places I’ve Lived: An Attic, Immigrant Housing, And Valet Views

By: oldflame

oldflame — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:38:57 +0000

My last house had a whiteboard that was not a disaster, but that was because it mostly just had drunken drawings on it. I like these features too, it makes my apartment experience feel more normal and less insane.

By: highwaysofgold

highwaysofgold — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:52:58 +0000

i was so surprised/thrilled to see the jump from iowa to MA, since i can literally see both Colborne and Egremont from my apartment and walk by both of those buildings on a daily basis!

By: werewolfbarmitzvah

werewolfbarmitzvah — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:25:17 +0000

@myrna.minkoff ZOMG I want to write one of these, too! These things are fun. And there are few things more captivating than discovering what everyone on earth pays in rent.

By: whaaat

whaaat — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:44:42 +0000

@wallsdonotfall I’m 29 and I’ve lived in 15 apartments, so it doesn’t seem like all that many to me, either…

By: kellyography

kellyography — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:23:30 +0000

I love these features, but mine would be so boring. It would consist of two apartments in three years, some couch crashing, and then six years of one apartment, within which is three years of looking for another apartment but never being able to find one as good as mine. What is super weird is that I have lived in my current apartment longer than I ever lived in any of my childhood homes.

By: shoot

shoot — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:38:15 +0000

@KatNotCat When we were living in Denmark, couples with one immigrant partner had to either buy (which we could not afford), sign a three-year lease (which no one will give you b/c that’s insane; nor did we want one!), or sign an open-ended lease, which gives the renter an incredible amount of power and few landlords are willing to do that.

(Do not get me started on the mandatory language classes or assimilation agreements the Danish government forced me to sign.)

New political party alliance gained parliamentary majority right after we left, so change is afoot but too late for us. I have no idea how the rules for other immigrants (entire non-native families with no Dane in the mix) or refugees compare/d. But because of how poorly Denmark treats its own when they love/marry foreigners, we’ll never move back and find out. Wah wah.

By: myrna.minkoff

myrna.minkoff — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:36:51 +0000

NO WAY! I Know what I am doing at work tomorrow…

By: Mike Dang

Mike Dang — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:34:44 +0000

@myrna.minkoff Nobody gets chosen—people just send them in to us!

By: myrna.minkoff

myrna.minkoff — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:30:11 +0000

First, that first apartment sounds like a dream come true for me.

Second, how do you get chosen to do one of these? It sounds like fun, but I’m not internet famous.

By: realtalk

realtalk — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:27:32 +0000

@Megano! that’s pretty standard for SF, unfortunately.