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House Hunting
June 13, 2006 ( life )
I looked at two places Sunday, one is in an excellent location near Eastern Market/Capitol Hill (10 minute walk from the Red line at Union Station, and the Orange and Blue lines at Eastern Market!), for cheap! It's a tiny room in a large rowhouse, with some good common areas, full of non-profit save-the-world types. They had a house outing to the Darfur rally, so I feel I'd fit in well there. And it's cheap. But tiny.
The other place is way out in Takoma Park, about 10-15 more minutes of metro riding, but closer to the metro station than my current place. This also means no walking home at all, and no cheap taxis home late, which kinda sucks. BUT, the HOUSE IS HUGE. It has a wrap-around porch over the front and side, enclosed in the back. It has a humongous basement (with a DJ booth installed) and a ginormous backyard. The inside is quirky and rough around the edges. It had its radiators ripped out and is now all central heat/AC (that's not happy). There are literally 5 bathrooms on the ground floor, 2 (1 private to a room) on the second, and sadly none on the 3rd floor where I'd most likely be (converted attic).
I'm waiting to hear back from the E.Mkt place first, as it's cheaper and more metro-convenient; but if it falls through, I'm jumping on the TkPk place.
House hunting is a really bizarre thing in DC, as there's such a constant flow of people coming, leaving and moving around based on work changes and DC in general. For the shared-house crowd, of course, it's generally self-selecting for non-profit types and grad students, so the open houses are almost always impromptu parties and networking events. At the E. Mkt place, one of the housemates is ivankara's girlfriend (I know him through the PCV IT crowd, her set up pcvs.org from Mauritania where he served) (and they evidentially met through house hunting themselves!), at a place a few weeks back I ran into a current roommate of a friend who'd changed jobs, and a girl who was thinking of volunteering in Jamaica with the Jam. Assoc for the Deaf, who I worked with a bit on IT.
Anyhow, I should be reading, outlining, doing laundry and beginning to box some stuff up, not blogging.
Posted by griffjon at June 13, 2006 11:04 AM
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