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ok, here's the story on the place that I like. $775 a month, which is more than I wanted to pay but certainly doable. One bedroom. Big kitchen. Nice living room with a southern exposure and a view of a grand old oak tree. Back porch (!). Pretty hardwood floors. Laundry downstairs. Old building, but well maintained. There's a marble facade out front that says "The Rose." Located here, which is pretty unbeatable. Two blocks from the Berwyn el stop, two blocks from Jewel, three blocks from the lake, seven blocks from Juulia.

I think I should go for it.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know where Berwyn or Jewel are, but the rest sounds PERFECT. Shit. I want.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't remember if it's thisplace or the other one that has the old iron bathtub with the legs and everything. I love that shit.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

qhR v

ahem...

what about the other one?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know where Berwyn or Jewel are

Well, ifyou look at the map, Berwyn in one block south, and the train stop is just on the east side of Broadway. The grocery is between the el stop and Brodaway.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a pretty great location. 1 block from 2 different L stops, CLOSE to the Jewel, beautiful street.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The other one is at Devon and Wayne, much smaller, has a view of an alley and a brick wayy, and you have to walk through the closet to get to the bathroom. Also significantly dirtier.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

brick wall

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

happiness trumps potential savings any day of the week, right? i took a place for $275 more per month than another i was thinking about because it was much nicer and in a slightly better area. it was well worth it.

if you go with the other place, you will inevitably regret it completely.

― bohren un der club of gear, Monday, 16 October 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

what price?

If it was like $300 a month less or something that might make a difference.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a pretty great location.

I know. It would be nice for a change to have a place I want to stay at for more than one lease. It ain't dirt cheap or anything, but I think I can grow into it. Buy furniture and bookshelves, the whole bit.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Devon Ave. is too far from Chicago.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

what price?

$600, which, considering, feels like a rip-off.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Devon Ave. is too far from Chicago.

Heh. But think of the Indian food!

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

$175 difference? see that's only $2100 per year

― bohren un der club of gear, Monday, 16 October 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

that's a great hood. can you negotiate?

― grady (grady), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm seriously on the side of the nicer one.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I can see what they can do about the deposit. Because I have rotten credit, so the standard is to charge twice rent for deposit. If I can talk them down from that, that would be premium.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Only possible downside: it's *right* next to the train tracks. Like, I would have a view of them out the front and back door both, at eye level. But I think you'd get used to that pretty quick, right?

Jake: How often does the train go by?
Elwood: So often that you won't even notice it.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I know people who live next to the El and it's OK. But I would be concerned too. But it sounds great. The apartment, not the sound of the train.

Oh god, I never want to move again until I own my own place or am dead.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

But I would love to be in Jenny and Jeff's place. God how I would love that.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

They're in your hood, bro. Faggots everywhere you turn.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/apa/220591788.html

I am considering the trade off of size vs. location and amenities.

xpost-- that's not MY hood. The density of fags is actually a con for me. I like where I am now in that regard...fag-friendly, but not choked with them.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Their place is great because of the Jewel next door. That is first and foremost. After that the other numerous pluses are great but they pale in comparison.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm so proud of Kenny. He's sat on top of the computer monitor for a solid hour without crapping on the screen.

$695 for an apartment in Lincoln Park? That's going to be mad small.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenan: The Lincoln Park apartment is not for you.

jesse: ok
why

Kenan: going to be about 400 sq ft, for one thing

jesse: yeh
i know

Kenan: and you'll hate the hood

jesse: no

Kenan: real yuppie

jesse: yeh

Kenan: lotsa breeders and babies all over the place
overpriced restaurants
nothing that's *not* overpriced
celebrities live in that neighborhood
i can't stand that part of town, except that it's very pretty
but it is, as Holden Caulfield would say, very phony

jesse: you killed the dream
;__;

Kenan: you can pay that much and live in a real chicago neighborhood and have a bigger place and be much happier, all at the same time

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Back me up here, people.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i wasn't really considering that place. but this place http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/apa/220020496.html seems nice.

anyway, first i need a job.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Not bad, but why are you determined to move to a smaller, more expensive apartment?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

hey n00bz, real ILX is back

― bohren un der club of gear, Monday, 16 October 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

no shit! thanks.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

hi chicago.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Ignore that. I messed something up.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link

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― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Weird. There's nothing wrong with my HTML, but this post just won't post.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, sorry: sandbox only allows two images per post.

― stet (stet), Monday, 30 October 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy payday, once-a-monthers!

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, but payday was yesterday. Today is paythemanday.

What happens when a debit card expires? Should my bank have sent me another one already?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't get paid until Friday. Which means I packed a lunch again. But my pay schedule works out great this month: I get paid on the third, then the 17th, and then again on December 1, which means that December rent can come out of *that* check, and November is all freed up to buy housewares.

I have decided to buy that jute rug after all. The big green rug will match my bedroom much better than my living room. I want black, simple, almost severe.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

The bank should automatically send you one - you should call them if they haven't, Dan.

Happy Samhain/All Saints Day/All Hallows' Day, everybody.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, Samhain was yesterday. Fucking pagans.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Fucking Catholics.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Fucking Glen Danzig.

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― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

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― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

HERRO!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

guttentag!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, hey jenny, guess what i have in a crockpot waiting for me when i get home from work today?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Ohioans, tell me about Barberton.

xpost - a human head?

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

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