Apartment hunting rant

[Clueless Morgan]

No. The $900 example was just an absurd example of what a 300 sqft studio goes for just outside the (very nice) Pearl district in the (very shitty) Old Town area. (The place in question is near NW Everett and Broadway, smack dab in the middle of homeless central).

Eep. Back away slowly and try not to make eye contact...

Ah, you don't have to pay for parking. I have been staying at a friend's place during the week (Buckmann neighborhood, close-in SE, 10 minute bus ride from work). I started doing that because parking is $12 a day, or $180 to "how much you got" for monthly parking. I went through about a tank of gas a week as well, most of it burned up while crawling at 5mph on Interstate 5 in rush hour.

I actually work a couple blocks from OMSI and my office pays for parking passes. And in any case, my job is such that I do need to drive for meetings and things, and with me getting more of my own projects (not assisting others such that we can carpool to meetings) then it's almost a requirement that I drive myself quite a bit.

I can carpool with my folks a couple times a week, though, which is nice, as it's about the only time I see them since I moved.

Easy choice - but transit is a non-starter coming from Vancouver.

Aw, CD, you're making me nostalgic for the times I would listen to my dad rant about shitty Trimet trying to elbow their way into Vancouver and how the 'Couv is so admirable for not cowing to The Man!