Returned at 3 am from my 4th trip to Halifax to look for a place to live.
The best place I found was a one bedroom apartment, newly redone, for $500 a month. Electricity, phone, & internet extra. It was beautiful ...
But there are a few concerns ...
- not in a really bad area but not a great area either, area is kind of run down ...
- a bit too expensive but can't find anything better
- it is a basement apartment with large windows - 8 foot wide window in living room - so it would be easy for someone to break into.
- it is at the end of a very very long hallway and has no other apartments anywhere near it ... very, very isolated with furnace room etc. between it and other apartments.
- the building was fire bombed. The police have no idea who did it. The bottle was thrown from the parking lot through 2 panes of glass. On the wall of the hallway, approaching the apartment, you can see where the bottle hit the wall before smashing onto the floor and setting the place on fire. Fortunately, the sprinkler system put out the fire before it did any real damage .. tho the hallway was flooded. The 20 something year old man (assistant superintendent) who showed me the apartment was uncomfortable (afraid) when walking down the hallway.
godmother says I should sign the lease before someone snaps it up and we can figure out the security problems.
Linda suggests that it sounds too dangerous, especially for a woman living alone.
What do you think?
New home for me and the ratties?
it really is a very nice apartment, seems like some nice people live on the second floor ... oh, some people are moving out because of the firebombing but I as told that nothing like this has happened there before in the year that the people have lived there. ... just in a scary place
I am thinking of not going to university and asking for my acceptance into the masters program to be delayed a year because I can not find a place to live.
Any ideas?
