So this is my last night :(

EvilMerlin

In my apartment. Well I have to be out Sunday, but I've got everything packed up now and by tomorrow afternoon everything will be gone. There's a ton of great memories that I have of this place, and wish I weren't leaving. :sigh:

I really felt like this was my home for once. A place I always looked forward to being when days or nights were hard or awkward. Nothing like the comfort of your own home. I hope I can find another place like this one. I'm tired of adjusting.

And now I can't sleep. Just sitting back and reminiscing the good ole times. Man jobs suck with this relocating business...even if it is only 30 miles.

SENROCK

i'll be right over......we can listen to the fonda while the sun comes up.

EvilMerlin

Dude, that'd be amazing. Sunrise would be about the time Indifference begins if I start it now...

dust

I feel for you, I'm packin at the moment. My landlady is selling up so i gotta move out and it sucks!!!

sponger

Even though I make $50K a year, I still can't afford my own apartment in Orange County that isn't in the fucking ghetto. Garbage Grove, Santa Ana, and Westminster are just the kinds of places I was hoping to get out of when I was going to college.

I grew up in a fancy pants neighborhood, but my parents threw me out at 18, and it was semi-ghetto living ever since.

It's just too goddamn expensive to live in freaking southern california. I'm pretty sure that if I lived in just about any other state or county for that matter, I'd have no problem finding a very decent 1 bedroom on my salary.

But, just to live in Irvine, I have to have roommates, both of whom are working professionals making more than $50K/yr....only in the OC. We live in a sweet house, though

EvilMerlin

sponger wrote:

Even though I make $50K a year, I still can't afford my own apartment in Orange County that isn't in the fucking ghetto. Garbage Grove, Santa Ana, and Westminster are just the kinds of places I was hoping to get out of when I was going to college.

I grew up in a fancy pants neighborhood, but my parents threw me out at 18, and it was semi-ghetto living ever since.

It's just too goddamn expensive to live in freaking southern california. I'm pretty sure that if I lived in just about any other state or county for that matter, I'd have no problem finding a very decent 1 bedroom on my salary.

But, just to live in Irvine, I have to have roommates, both of whom are working professionals making more than $50K/yr....only in the OC. We live in a sweet house, though

That's pretty much my story. I have a 2 bdrm in Lake Forest, and my roommate left me, I was able to keep it up since the new year, but I just can't do it anymore, just not worth it. I'm actually going down towards Garden Grove. It kinda works out okay, because my work is in Aliso Viejo right now, but at some point in the summer they're moving me to either Irvine or Long Beach, and that's right in the middle of those two, so that won't be too bad of a drive until I can find a place closer. Hopefully another roommate again that I can trust too.

g under p

I know the feeling of having to leave one home for another. I'm back home in my house in MD after being in Palm Beach, Florida since December. I'm now glad to be home but the packing up is the hard part, however good luck on your new home.

Peace

SENROCK

EvilMerlin wrote:

Dude, that'd be amazing. Sunrise would be about the time Indifference begins if I start it now...

perfect. call me if you need me.....

sponger

So like what's it gonna cost you for a 1 bdrm apt in Garbage Grove?

PJPixie

EvilMerlin wrote:

That's pretty much my story. I have a 2 bdrm in Lake Forest, and my roommate left me, I was able to keep it up since the new year, but I just can't do it anymore, just not worth it. I'm actually going down towards Garden Grove. It kinda works out okay, because my work is in Aliso Viejo right now, but at some point in the summer they're moving me to either Irvine or Long Beach, and that's right in the middle of those two, so that won't be too bad of a drive until I can find a place closer. Hopefully another roommate again that I can trust too.

ROOMMATE situations always suck ass :(

the wolf

EvilMerlin wrote:

In my apartment. Well I have to be out Sunday, but I've got everything packed up now and by tomorrow afternoon everything will be gone. There's a ton of great memories that I have of this place, and wish I weren't leaving. :sigh:

I really felt like this was my home for once. A place I always looked forward to being when days or nights were hard or awkward. Nothing like the comfort of your own home. I hope I can find another place like this one. I'm tired of adjusting.

And now I can't sleep. Just sitting back and reminiscing the good ole times. Man jobs suck with this relocating business...even if it is only 30 miles.

that sucks . but i just gotta ask. why move if its just 30 miles? my brother in law drives an hour each day to work. each way.
i drove 45 min, each way at my last job. if your that borken up about moving, i just dont see 30 miles being that HUGE of a deal if you ask me.

sponger

PJPixie wrote:

ROOMMATE situations always suck ass :(

And unless you make at least $60K/yr, don't mind living in the ghetto, or are married or are living with a significant other, roommate situations are unavoidable in southern california.

I remember a conversation I was having with a co-worker a while back. She was chastising a co-worker who makes $45K/yr and lives with her parents.

She went, "When I was her age, I was working in food service and was a single mother, and still had to live on my own."

What she failed to mention was that those events took place in her home state of Texas, where anybody with a job can rent a place on their own. I could probably have a paper route and rent a studio apt in Texas.

What's happening in California will eventually spread to the rest of the country, and with the division between social classes ever-widening, martial law or anarchy will surely reign.

EvilMerlin

the wolf wrote:

that sucks . but i just gotta ask. why move if its just 30 miles? my brother in law drives an hour each day to work. each way.
i drove 45 min, each way at my last job. if your that borken up about moving, i just dont see 30 miles being that HUGE of a deal if you ask me.

well 30 miles in Orange County gets you from paying around 1700/month down to about 1100/month.

Also 30 miles in Orange County is over an hour drive.

Plus this puts me in the middle of the two places that my work will be moving my office to. I don't want to be stuck in Lake Forest, then they decide to place me in Long Beach, and I'm stuck with a 40 mile drive down the 405 which is probably even more fun(sarcasm) Then what my current drive will be down the 55/5 freeway. So it's not worth the gamble to try and stay hoping I end up in Irvine.

Also, what Sponger replied above is a great general post to the situation down here right now. It's pretty horrible.

EvilMerlin

PJPixie wrote:

ROOMMATE situations always suck ass :(

Isn't that the truth. :(

There's one guy that I can move in with currently if I wanted too, I trust the guy with my life and living with him is no problem...however he's getting serious with his gf now, and wants the 3 of us to go get a place, and well, I told him I'm not touching that situation aaaattttt aaaallllllll. I'm not gonna put myself into a place like that. So ugh...whatever, what can ya do, right?

riffrandall

I hear ya- when I first moved to California I was living in San Jose & working in Palo Alto, NO THANKS!!! My job transferred me to San Francisco, I was making 75K+ and I could barely, I mean barely, afford my apartment which was not in a great area but it had it's own parking space. I feel your pain.

EvilMerlin

riffrandall wrote:

I hear ya- when I first moved to California I was living in San Jose & working in Palo Alto, NO THANKS!!! My job transferred me to San Francisco, I was making 75K+ and I could barely, I mean barely, afford my apartment which was not in a great area but it had it's own parking space. I feel your pain.

Yeah that sucks. Sounds like my buddy I work with. They moved him up to the SF office, and he was doing all right but only had a studio. Not in a terrible area, but close to the tenderloins, so not a great area either. They transfered him out to the Walnut Creek office though now, so he's got a nicer place, but his money situation is still about the same.

sponger

EvilMerlin wrote:

Also, what Sponger replied above is a great general post to the situation down here right now. It's pretty horrible.

Thanks. I appreciate the recognition wherever I can get it. My parents didn't give me enough of that you know.

Lukin66

EvilMerlin wrote:

In my apartment. Well I have to be out Sunday, but I've got everything packed up now and by tomorrow afternoon everything will be gone. There's a ton of great memories that I have of this place, and wish I weren't leaving. :sigh:

I'm gonna have this feeling once the lease is up in my current apartment, and I feel your pain. I've moved three times in as many years, and I truly hate packing/unpacking

EvilMerlin

Lukin66 wrote:

I'm gonna have this feeling once the lease is up in my current apartment, and I feel your pain. I've moved three times in as many years, and I truly hate packing/unpacking

Yeah I hear ya on that one. I'm not even done unpacking yet, and I'm already not looking forward to next year when I do it again. haha.

South of Seattle

Been thinking about living on my own, 33 years old and have always had a roommate.

Much like my friends in SoCal. Living by yourself is pretty tough. I make around the same a Sponger, but cannot think about living on my own, unless I have a significant other, or am content with being broke. If I didn't love where I live, I'd live in Omaha or someplace and have a nice 4 bedroom home that I own for the same price.

einatshaul

You can always find your home again, in a different place, home is not in things or walls, you'll have that wrm welcoming comforting feeling again, I asure you Take it from someone who's been on the move every week or two for the past five months.

Oh, and the one above me - I LOVE where you live, well, North of there It will break my heart to leave this place, there is never a day when I feel I'm in a rut...

South of Seattle

einatshaul wrote:

Oh, and the one above me - I LOVE where you live, well, North of there It will break my heart to leave this place, there is never a day when I feel I'm in a rut...

Luckily you came over towards the end of winter I think I just need the warm weather we're gonna get this weekend. I'm glad you're enjoying your move out here.