Everyone should experience at least one in their lifetime.
They can be heaven. They can bring you to your knees. Ours was a sort of Purgatory: "a place or state of suffering inhabited by souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven." The nuns led me to believe that it was sort of a halfway house. Not the glory of heaven, but not the humidity and heat of the other locale below.
Our first apartment was a three room affair on Deering Street in the heart of the city. Tiny bedroom, small kitchenette with a bathroom next to it and a pretty good size living room. That was it. There was not a lot of place to roam. My suggestion to anyone just starting out in a relationship. Find a three-room unit and see if you can survive with out driving each other crazy or worse. If you can withstand the pressures created by living in such close quarters with another human being for a couple of years, this new found relationship might have a chance. That and finding a place to park every night on the street in front of your place. And if it's meant to be, then at the other end of the tunnel, you'll emerge no worse for wear. Yet in a stronger bond. That's my experience anyway.
And city living has its perks.
At that time, we could get a dozen Dunkin Donuts at the place at the corner for just 99¢.
Now that's livin' the life.
No wonder I survived!
Instead of reading "Dear Abby" I can now get sage advice from
ReplyDeleteWhoops! How did that happen? I can now get sage advice from "Dear Birdman!" Your advice for one's first apartment is spot on; we can match that, but our was a so-called "Garden Apartment" that was half underground. It was handy, tho, when we had to sneak our illegal puppy outdoors for a swift potty call. Our life in the apt was much shorter than our life with our beloved Norweigan Elkhound who moved to larger quarters and a yard with us for 12 wonderful years.
ReplyDeleteYup! Been there Birdman. Must have worked, still together 300 years later :)
ReplyDeleteYup! Been there Birdman. Must have worked, still together 300 years later :)
ReplyDeleteI think the donuts would help a LOT!
ReplyDeleteLove the look of the curving stairway. I've lived in some great apartments, and some that were not so great. Urban living does have its advantages, but great space isn't one of them.
ReplyDeleteI look back on the apartments I've had over the past and they've all be large and roomy. I guess I've been lucky.
ReplyDeleteI had not heard about the new MacDonald's but, I'm going to check it out right now.
Had a one room apartment with a tiny balcony a few eons ago. My first one ever. A good memory.
ReplyDeleteJust thought I'd let you know, I did some investigating into that McDonald's story and it seems it was hoax. There are no plans to open a robotic McDonald's in Phoenix. Too bad, that would have made some great posts.
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So that's what makes it work.....46 + years so far. Could have been the loud stairs, we were up, or being able to listen to Gary Puckett and the Union Gap's Woman Woman and Young Girl across the hall.
ReplyDeletewe lived in an apartment for about a month when we left san diego to missouri waiting for our house to be ready...we've always had dogs so have always needed a yard...rented lots of little houses in the beginning years to accomodate the dogs first haha
ReplyDeleteI do like the curve of that staircase!
ReplyDeleteWe all live in apartments nere, and it is hell, not Purgatory...
ReplyDeleteI like my apartment, although I admit it was hard to transition from a 3-BR house with basement and garage to a 2-BR apartment with hardly any storage. I had forgotten how much you hear from the neighbors in apartment living. But it's not too bad.
ReplyDeleteIf you can survive some hardships you are set for the long term!
ReplyDeletesounds cozy. my first apartment was a studio. the only separate room was the bathroom. ugh!
ReplyDeleteDonuts. Who knew life could be so simple? :-)
ReplyDeleteSuch good old days in those shabby surroundings! Me too
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Been there, done that, don't want to do it again. Especially in Minnesota where a heated garage costs a fortune!
ReplyDeleteI lived in an apartment when I was in college. Fun times. Wouldn't want to do it now though!
ReplyDeleteI'm very happy to life the apartment life again, here in Portland, Oregon. The first place I lived it, my hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, holds fond memories, too. Plus, I like living in my last apartment as a single woman in Kansas City, Missouri, quite a bit--it's location for work and groceries and good times was perfect. Then, there were the two that I shared in KCMO with my dearly departed LeRoy--wonderful memories there, too. Maybe since grew up between the ages of 3 to 10 in three different house trailers no wider than eight feet makes me the perfect apartment dweller!
ReplyDeleteDonuts? I don't know if I could look past that green carpet even for a dozen donuts.
ReplyDeletePerfect test for compatibility!
ReplyDeleteWho knew our staircase could look so glamorous haha I will miss our first apartment dearly when we move!
ReplyDeleteHow interesting.
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