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[freeformschooler]

Found what looks like a lot of really nice housing options to pick over, and I should be able to find a cheaper place to live, much closer to campus, possibly for only slightly over $500.

Niiiiice.

Back several years ago this would have raised eyebrows, but the fantastic prices on housing these past few years, now that it's a buyer's market, have made me see how possible this is.

You should have seen the low price tag of this... basically mansion my mom considered wanting. And then didn't want because it was just too big, and we don't buy a lot of stuff.

[Vector]

I'd like a $300 room, frankly, because I am a HUGE CHEAPSKATE.

Too bad the only people offering rooms like that are families looking for babysitters and men looking for prostitutes.


I think my brain is finally getting in gear and working on not being depressed.  This is a very good thing.

[Aqizzar]

It's not so much that housing prices have drop, but that so many have been foreclosed on that it's easier to find an incredible deal.

Found what looks like a lot of really nice housing options to pick over, and I should be able to find a cheaper place to live, much closer to campus, possibly for only slightly over $500.

$500 a month you mean?  For a room, or a whole house?  Because damn, I'm amazed it's not higher for a house.  There's a $650 a month house in my neighborhood, and that unheard of to me.

[KaelGotDwarves]

I'd like a $300 room, frankly, because I am a HUGE CHEAPSKATE.

Too bad the only people offering rooms like that are families looking for babysitters and men looking for prostitutes.

Please do not get a $300 room in Berkeley, Vector. *shudders*

[Vector]

$500 a month you mean?  For a room, or a whole house?  Because damn, I'm amazed it's not higher for a house.  There's a $650 a month house in my neighborhood, and that unheard of to me.

Oh, for a room, in a house with 9 roommates (... ho ho =/).  Definitely not a house.

Please do not get a $300 room in Berkeley, Vector. *shudders*

Don't worry, I won't.  I'm being damned careful about this.

[KaelGotDwarves]

I tried being "homeless" for a few nights around SF and Berkeley for my own little social experiment. As I discovered, you couldn't pay me to live in certain parts of those two cities.

I didn't even try Oakland.

I'm spoiled and moved back in with the parentals- safest and most beautiful little town in the bay. Pay tiny rent and rest went to paying off my uni and car payments. Now I can travel and do what I want saving hundreds a month and pay into my CD/mutual funds/savings. Only downside, no raucious sex and drug parties at my place. I've outgrown those though.

[Akura]

Found what looks like a lot of really nice housing options to pick over, and I should be able to find a cheaper place to live, much closer to campus, possibly for only slightly over $500.

$500 a month you mean?  For a room, or a whole house?  Because damn, I'm amazed it's not higher for a house.  There's a $650 a month house in my neighborhood, and that unheard of to me.

$650?! It's almost impossible to find anything under $1000 on Long Island, as far as a house goes.

[inteuniso]

Watching Falling Skies right now. Dystopian Sci-Fi series AHOY!

[Aqizzar]

I'm spoiled and moved back in with the parentals- safest and most beautiful little town in the bay. Pay tiny rent and rest went to paying off my uni and car payments. Now I can travel and do what I want saving hundreds a month and pay into my CD/mutual funds/savings. Only downside, no raucious sex and drug parties at my place. I've outgrown those though.

I continue to wonder how so many people I know, relatives mostly, manage to go through life relatively smoothly without ever having a real job or permanent residence.  I think they mostly bum off each other in a big circle each time somebody gets a real income, until critical mass is reached and everything collapses again.  How they get away with it into their 30's is the bigger mystery.

[Duke 2.0]

Speaking of waitresses, a girl I haven't seen since 8th/9th grade wandered past me in a restraunt and said hi in a very flirtatious manner, leaving before I could even say hi back.

Am I that sexy already? Wow, I can only dream about what it's going to be like when I get rich and famous (or middle class and mildly well known, depending on wether or not I can restart the Golden Age of Sci-fi.)

Welp, I shouldn't have judged so quickly. Father took us out to a diner tonight and the exact same thing happened. The weird part was how my father was almost supportive of me here. It's a weird situation, but I get the feeling that he's proud that I present myself in a way people like and that he has faith in my self-control.

 That is worth more than the sweet words of a million attractive young ladies.

[freeformschooler]

I'm spoiled and moved back in with the parentals- safest and most beautiful little town in the bay. Pay tiny rent and rest went to paying off my uni and car payments. Now I can travel and do what I want saving hundreds a month and pay into my CD/mutual funds/savings. Only downside, no raucious sex and drug parties at my place. I've outgrown those though.

I continue to wonder how so many people I know, relatives mostly, manage to go through life relatively smoothly without ever having a real job or permanent residence.  I think they mostly bum off each other in a big circle each time somebody gets a real income, until critical mass is reached and everything collapses again.  How they get away with it into their 30's is the bigger mystery.

I used to have a friend, whose dad and mom were in their 40's-50's. They had two siblings. Neither of their parents worked in the sense that they had a steady income or enough, so their entire family bummed off of the dad's dad's gigantic retirement fund. It was not so much that they were suffering that no one in the family actually wanted to do any work.

[Aqizzar]

I went out to Olive Garden today with grandparents.  Granddad especially was trying to sell me up on his neighbor's daughter who works there, to the point that it was getting kinda creepy.  Then grandma came in and started backing him up.

I take the fact that my grandparents barely know me as a good enough reason not to think they see some need to look for women to hook me up with.  That would be really depressing, and really weird.

Said neighbor was not at the Olive Garden anyway.

[ToonyMan]

Goin Up?  Oh great there goes the rest of my night.

[Cthulhu]

I had some hillbilly try to find me a girlfriend when I was working at Kroger like four or five years ago.

No, I didn't know him.

I, interestingly enough, have also had the occasional restaurant girl encounter.  This one was sitting behind me and left before me, as her group was walking away she looked back and gave me this cutesy flirtatious look.

She chewed with her mouth open though, and that was a dealbreaker.

Also, I saw an incredible movie, Fatal Deviation, although I went the whole movie thinking it was called Fatal Deviance, which sounds like a movie about bondage accidents.  I think a movie about bondage accidents would have been more watchable than this.

It's Ireland's first martial arts movie, and also the worst thing ever put on film.  It's the kind of thing you'd expect to find on an unlabeled VHS tape in the woods.

[Rilder]

Watching Falling Skies right now. Dystopian Sci-Fi series AHOY!

Watching it too, not a bad show, honestly. They like to discus history though.