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Monday, September 1, 2014

Old stories: our first apartment (Spring 2007)

About a year ago, Julie and I decided that it could be really fun for us if we began writing down the stories of fun and/or significant memories in our lives. This is the only one we've done so far, and it was recently.

In the month or two leading up to our wedding, we shopped around town for an apartment that would be our first home together. Google Street View of apt 406I think we visited about six or seven places. Our standards were the following:

  • Should cost around $450-$500 per month

  • Should preferably be on the east side of town to be closer to all of our friends. (At the time it seemed that anything more than three miles away was rarely worth driving to since it took around 20 minutes to go through the 10 poorly-timed stoplights and painfully slow speed limits you would surely encounter along the way.)

  • Should be free of any kind of notorious infestation. This ruled out even looking at Essex Square (bedbugs) and Sooner Crossing (roaches).