Places I Have Lived

Places I’ve Lived: A Whole Lot of Campus Apartments

by May 9th, 2013

Three years of student housing to coincide with my last three years of undergrad. We were packed in like sardines and the walls were so thin we could hear the people across the hall sometimes, but it was a ton of fun.

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Initially Nice But Later Incompetent And/Or Crooked Landlords

by April 30th, 2013

Any elisions in this timeline represent long stretches without unpleasant interactions with landlords, and uneventful tenancies make boring stories. I rented many apartments throughout Iowa City and Chicago before my first full-scale landlord-induced meltdown, which set into motion a series of motifs I’d revisit over the next eight years.

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Places I’ve Lived: Oh I’ve Been to Prague

by April 26th, 2013

Where have you lived, Emma McCullough?

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Places I’ve Lived: 10 Houses in 10 Years in London

by March 19th, 2013

The year is 2003, and two fresh graduates from Southampton roll into London to take it all on. Unfortunately they have no idea what they’re doing, which is why they’ve ended up in Acton, West London.

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Places I’ve Lived: Is Heat Included?

by March 12th, 2013

Pearl Higgins has lived in some places.

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Places I’ve Lived: California, Ukraine, and Back Again

by March 8th, 2013

Katie Peoples has lived in some places.

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Place I’ve Lived: Broken Leases, Okay Credit Score

by March 6th, 2013

Liz Goodfellow has lived in some places.

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Places I’ve Lived: Some Okay Places, And Then The Eighth Circle of Hell

by February 28th, 2013

Where have you lived. Danielle Kurtzleben?

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Places I’ve Lived: A Move to New York and an Assortment of Roommates

by February 21st, 2013

There was no communal space in the apartment other than the bathroom and kitchen (the owner had her own private bathroom), so I often felt like I was in a boarding school/convent/orphanage.

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Places I’ve Lived: Spiral Staircases, Sublets, and a Nightmare Landlord

by February 5th, 2013

My college roommate found our first adult apartment, an unbelievable duplex, in Center City. It was perfect in many ways—dishwasher, washer/dryer in the bathroom, elegant spiral staircase, directly above an independent bookstore.

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