Apartment Living......

[usnuzuloose]

Oh it just sucks. Just needed to vent that.

 

[Michelle67]

Yep, it sure does. Hope I never have to do it again. Hope your situation gets better soon.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Thanks me to. Glad yours is already better.

 

[kerplop]

We've lived in apartments for about 10 years and honestly with just DP, me, and a cat we sort of like it. Cheaper and we have more money for fun. Of course we live in a pretty quiet complex with good neighbors. Office staff is TERRIBLE though.

 

[corgi_monster]

I love it! No yard work, I don't have to push the garbage can to the curb twice a week, less chance of break ins, no barking dogs, no neighbors using leaf blowers at 7am, no car alarms, I don't have to go to the post office to pick up my boxes, etc. Yeah, sometime it sucks because it's smaller than my old house, but there are some perks too

 

[Sparx]

I love it! No yard work, I don't have to push the garbage can to the curb twice a week, less chance of break ins, no barking dogs, no neighbors using leaf blowers at 7am, no car alarms, I don't have to go to the post office to pick up my boxes, etc. Yeah, sometime it sucks because it's smaller than my old house, but there are some perks too

I live in a VERY landscaped complex. I hear a lot of mowers and leaf blowers. But at least I don't have to go out there and use them!

 

[*pixie*dust*]

Its funny, just last night I was wishing I lived in an apartment. No mechanical maintenance and no yard work sounds like heaven. I actually liked living in an apartment when I was in one. Having a house is so much more work and expense!

 

[MIGrandma]

I remember when DH and I were first married I thought it would be so much fun to live in a high rise apartment building. Now? Not so much. I love the wide open spaces in the country and not having such close neighbors and hearing people/noise through the walls or the ceiling. And I see on the news so many apartment fires and they are usually started by someone smoking. I would be so nervous about that living in an apartment.

 

[Robinrs]

I grew up in apartments in NY for 30 years, I can't STAND them now. MOSTLY because of the upclose and personal neighbors...

 

[punkin]

Its funny, just last night I was wishing I lived in an apartment. No mechanical maintenance and no yard work sounds like heaven. I actually liked living in an apartment when I was in one. Having a house is so much more work and expense!

As soon as my kids move out, I am moving into a place that has a super I can call when something breaks. I've been after DH to fix the toilet paper holder for a month now.

...and you should see the mess that I call my front yard.

 

[Fintastic]

I have lived in apartments twice in my life and hated it both times. The second time was with our young daughter. It was awful because kids want to jump and play and we were constantly on her not to make noise, but our neighbors didn't seem to have the same courtesy for us. I hated hearing everybody's noise.

 

[SookieStackhouse]

When I was young and lived in a good sized town I lived in an apt. It had some advantages, but I have to agree with you that the bad outweighed the good.

My favorite thing was the pool. I lived close to that, and it was like I would hang out there all day every day during the summer. It was fun chatting w/friends and just hanging out. Some of the tenants were fun to spend time with and were good friends.

I guess the bad stuff is, they were fairly small, the noise, walking up all those stairs, parking, the smells (some people moved in and were always cooking curry), the drama, and the office staff was not entirely helpful, stuff was always breaking and they would never fix it right.

 

[AlwaysMoving]

I have found that apartment living is not bad if you live in a townhouse. I can't deal with a flight of stairs to get to my front door and I can't deal with having a team of horses above me either. The solution is a townhome. I just moved into one after 7 years of living in houses. This is only a temporary situation, but I have very quiet neighbors and honestly, it is no different in this townhouse as it was in a single standing house.

 

[FergieTCat]

I would love to move out of my apartment (or at least my building). My apartment is small and a few of my neighbors are hostile and/or rude. However, since I own it, it looks like it might be a while before I move.

 

[theycallmered]

Apartment living stinks when you realize you pay more for rent (in Silicon Valley) than what your father pays in monthly mortgage payments for two houses (1 in IL and 1 in FL).

 

[Robinrs]

Apartment living stinks when you realize you pay more for rent (in Silicon Valley) than what your father pays in monthly mortgage payments for two houses (1 in IL and 1 in FL).

Location location location... My niece lived in Silicon Valley (Stanford grad) and thought we lived for FREE here in Atlanta. It's WHY I don't live in NY anymore!

On the other hand, my first apartment in Atlanta was twice the mortgage amount of my Mom's house in Chattanooga. Location location location...

 

[Minnesota!]

We lived in apartments for about 3 years when we were newly married.

I never liked it because it never felt like "mine". I couldn't personalize it - paint the walls, change the carpet, replace the appliances with something NOT made in the 70's, etc.

We were on the end on the 1st floor...so noise wasn't too bad. But our windows were at ground level so we had people walking/driving by our windows at all times.

 

[njmom47]

I lived in an apartment for 1 1/2 yrs when I was a single mom. It was fine; plenty of room, close to work and babysitter, etc. I wouldn't live in that particular complex now though! (PS We have lived in a townhouse since 1995 now, and I like it for the most part.)

 

[addicted_to_WDW]

We lived in an apartment for the first 14 years of our marriage. I loved it. The location was wonderful, the rent was cheap, and our time was our own. No maintenance or outside work means totally free weekends. The only thing I never liked was the idea of people being to come in when they want (we couldn't even change a filter, the super had to do it).

Alas, we bowed to the pressure of, "houses are the best investment," and bought a house a few years back. I like it (especially the privacy) but it is time consuming and I'm always spending money on something. Right now a couple slabs in my walkway are sinking. What's up with that and how much is THIS going to cost? Two months from now it will be something else.

 

[ashley0139]

Considering what I am dealing with right this very moment, I would give pretty much anything to not live in an apartment. Unfortunately, in NYC that's not an option. Grrrrr.