Craigslist Apartments oh my!

May 01, 2008

Can we talk about looking for apartments on craigslist for a minute. I can’t quite deal with looking where I actually live, so I’ve been looking in other cities.

For instance, check out this lovely pad in Miami:

http://miami.craigslist.org/apa/650730121.html

I found this place by searching for “ocean” in my price range. It actually looks kind of gross in a sterile sort of why. Which I would actually enjoy, considering the disgusting state of my current place. Mice, dirt, electricity turned off for a while etc.

Craigslist description:
Has a full kitchen and walk-in closet. Plenty of storage space. Has beautiful hardwood floors. Corner, 3rd floor unit with lots of light. Laundry machines in building. Special zoned parking available and access to some public garages with city permit that can be accuired with a copy of lease. Perfect place for someone who's new to the area and wants to feel true South Beach Living or a young urbanista.

I’m a young urbanista! I like how they know that this is a girl’s apartment. They’re like, look, we know no guys are going to care about this place (walk-in closet? Laundry machines? – at least Eric doesn’t care about laundry, I’m not sure about all men). Urbanista. Feminine.

It’s just amazing that I could get up and live there. I could get in a car, or a Greyhound bus, and get to Miami and put my money on this place.

No wonder people say too much choice is ruining all of our lives (do people say that? I think there was a book about it).

In Tuscon:
http://tucson.craigslist.org/apa/649647085.html

Why am I searching for studios and one bedrooms? Does that mean that I’m an adult now and want to move on to THE NEXT LEVEL??

Tuscon would be too hot.

Rome! http://rome.en.craigslist.it/apa/650179057.html

That’s better. Something I could never afford and therefore could never have. Much safer, preferable fantasy-fodder.

If I moved to Rome, though, I would be so fashionable and amazing. Just want to say that.

Okay, a couple more.

New York. I mean, Brooklyn, because that seems to be where I would live if I were living in New York. Check this out:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/650616023.html

6 bedroom for $7500! This is clearly not intended for a bunch of raucous twenty-five year olds, but still, how amazing would this be! Three stories! A Jacuzzi. I wonder if a celebrity lives there right now. I think Park Slope is one of the neighborhoods where people I knew in college who live in New York want to live.

A more livable option there:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/650589657.html
Live in Brooklyn with two other girls and a cat and a job. That could work.

Or maybe I could get married and move to the country:

Hipster Western Massachusetts. Just enough culture, just enough nature (I just made that up, btw, I should be in real estate):

http://westernmass.craigslist.org/apa/649584301.html

I could live there with my husband and move into a farm when we had kids.

Okay, I’m hungry. I have to think about this over some expired cereal (I hope the milk is not expired).

Peace, y’all.