January 7, 2008 | | Home is where the heart is, Personal stuff

I can’t believe how fast this is happening. We drove up there yesterday and signed the papers for our new apartment. It’s about 50 times nicer than our current place (skylights, wood floors, nicer carpet, screened porch, fireplace, more cabinets and closets), though in some ways not as nice (no icemaker, horrible ’70s looking light fixtures, smaller bathroom, cramped kitchen, no ceiling fans). I hope we’ll like it there, but if not we only have to be there for a year. The management there seem nice and competent. I cannot even begin to tell you the shit our current apartment management has put us through, so it will nice to get away from those idiots.

We’re “moving in” next Sunday, but not really. Our plan is to take up one load in the car that day, then we will take another load on Tuesday and then on Thursday we will rent a u-haul and take the rest. Since my boyfriend will be doing most of the heavy lifting (and lugging it up to our 2nd floor apartment), he doesn’t want to kill himself doing it all in one day, which I don’t blame him for.

That means we’ll be moved to a new city in LESS THAN TWO WEEKS. I haven’t even started packing! I just put in a request to set up electrical service and I’m trying to get cable/internet set up, but Comcast are some fucking greedy bastards. I thought our current providers were horrible, but we’re going to be paying about $50 a month more to get LESS than what we are receiving now. It’s ridiculous. Plus there’s like $200 in set up/bullshit fees they are trying to change me.

So far I’m not really seeing this city having a lower cost of living. Our rent is more (albeit for a nicer apartment in a better complex), gas is about 10 cents higher, and now our cable bill is going to be double what it currently is.

BUT we are within 5-10 minutes of TWO Targets, THREE Publixes (my grocery store of choice), TWO malls, pretty much every major store you can think of, and a shit load of restaurants and fast food places. And my boyfriend’s new job is only about 15 minutes away. That’s going to be ALOT less driving than we currently do, so we should still be saving money on gas despite it being more expensive.

Anyway, we’ll see how this all works out. It’s going to be an adjustment, but I’m excited nonetheless.

Tags: apartment, cable, Florida, hiring, job, moving