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09/26/2005: "Moving"
After a lot of research and emails Kiley and I have decided to move into an apartment on the East End. We're going to have to pay for water, which is the first time we've had to do that. Most apartments have water included, as does ours right now. Our gas bill is also part of the rent too, paying about $85 each month. We'll have electric heating and cooling in our new apartment, which is good because we don't have either right now. The location is great--a walk across or down the street will yield movies, liquor, pizza, wings, groceries, haircuts, and anything else that a person needs to waste gas on.
Kiley made me do the math and compare prices on rent, utilities, and gas based on where we live now and where we will live in a month. Even with doubling how much we'd pay for gas in a month, we will still save more money at a new apartment. It's almost the exact same as the first apartment I lived at in Louisville. We're taking a big cut in square footage, but is that really worth paying $130 extra a month? Now lets take some things into account based on what we currently don't have...
1) no central air conditioning makes summers quite hot
2) gas heat through radiators don't do crap but just heat my towel in the morning, making quite cold winters
3) the ceiling in at least 2 areas of our apartment now are ready to fall in due to water damage. It rained last night, how can you sleep when every drip you hear outside could be a drip that falling on your damn computer!?
4) Only a handful of people have experienced the "house centipede", the scary ass alien thingy with hella legs and huge antennae, that travels 50 MPH, scurries straight for your legs in order to hide in your clothing, has excellent sight, and lives deep in the walls. Try sleeping at night knowing those guys are everywhere. Seems to be localized in old, crap-hole apartments.
5) The pipes are rotting/rusted, so that smell when you turn on the water in the sink is not healthy, and have you ever turned on the water in the tub and had grey/brown water come out? Yeah, have fun taking a shower in that.
6) Oh yeah, no carpet! At least we'll be moving into a carpeted apartment. I have coming out of the shower and walking around on wood floors, only to pick up dog hair on my clean feet...sorry to those that have showered at our apt.
7) Last one....how many times must I hear people tell me our rent is more than their house payements? If we could be paying the same for a house, why would we want to live on the second floor of a house, up 25 frozen, icy, wet, slippery stairs of a house someone else owns? If we received as much rent as our landlord does, we'd have 3 houses by now. Instead, we're dead broke and can't afford a house when it's about damn time we got one.
So you may say, why don't you guys buy a house? Do you have $10,000 saved up in the bank? Well if you do, then you must be rich, because i have $200. And according to all the online calculators, based on what I make at my job, which is pennies, I could maybe afford a $90,000 house, and that's generous. Kiley has no credit, which doesn't help us at all, and I can only assume my credit is okay. And where in Louisville can you get crappy houses for $90,000? Lots of places...like the crime-ridden West End, the toothless South End, Indiana, or anywhere in Louisville right next to some damn railroad tracks. Oh yeah, need I mention that all these houses were built in 1929? Exactly, so if I want to spend all my hard earned money and be paying out of my ass for the rest of my life, would I want to live in a dump? F*#^ no! I want a brand new house, or at least one built in the last 20 years. How much do those go for? $150,000+ which we will never be able to afford unless Kiley gets a job that pays more than McDonald's, and I get a job that actually requires some sort of skill or knowledge. Anyone can do what I do; they're training people in India to do our work now, and I heard there's some monkeys in Africa that are making more than me. I need to get another job, either in place of my current one, or in addition to. I'm not working 2 godd#@$ full-time jobs...unless they're both fun and I can sleep at one of them. Oh yeah, they have to provide me with the medicine I sorely need to keep me sane and saves me from the reality of the Hell In Which I Live.