I’m in a small town, my roommate owns a 750sqft 2br house with a small garden. This year, the mortgage was $800/month, but property taxes went up so next year we’ll need to rebudget for $975.
He drives a forklift, and I’m a machine operator that’s been out of work since I’ve started getting presyncope that makes it dangerous.
I would like to live closer to employment, since I don’t feel safe driving any more and the bus runs once every other hour between 9-5, but housing in the nearest midsize city is still more than twice as much, and I’d have to give up my fruit trees.
I don’t think you’d find a 2 bedroom for $1k in NYC (though you’d likely save by not needing a car, so factor that into budgets). I see some on the map (Zillow, which I don’t know if it’s the best) for Philly, which I’m told is nice, but I’ve never lived there long term. I don’t know if they’re any good. You’d have to search yourself.
Yeah, I can’t find a 2br for $1k anywhere outside Flyover Country, and any savings from not driving is largely offset by the cost of not having a garden, unless I wanted to eat lower quality produce.
What do you do for work, and how did you get there?
any savings from not driving is largely offset by the cost of not having a garden, unless I wanted to eat lower quality produce.
I don’t really know anything about gardening, sorry. Some places have backyards, and there are community gardens in some cities. Cars are really expensive, though. Insurance alone is probably like $50/month. Probably more.
What do you do for work, and how did you get there?
Now? Software development. When I moved here, customer service (answering the phone, livechat, etc). Though I’m a cheapskate and still basically live like I’m making $45k. I eat a lot of rice and beans.
I was lucky that my second CS job was at a place that trained people an promoted internally, so I was able to move up in my career. They hired whole “classes” of CS people to onboard at once, and almost my whole cohort went on to do like marketing, management, software development, and other higher paying stuff. A couple of my friends have done the same, but it seems like AI is eating a lot of those jobs.
I’m filtering anything smaller than my current place, single story because presyncope. I don’t want to take a header down the stairs because I had an episode, same as not wanting to drive, I just get dizzy af and my limbs don’t follow direction well. If this turns out to be treatable, I can look for multi-story apartments, which does open up the listings a little, but you do have to look out for scam listings.
Insurance alone is probably like $50/month
Try $100 lol. It’s a hybrid, with an hour total commute, so lets say $150 for gas. I don’t know anything about public transit or employment in Philly, so I can’t say for sure that we could get rid of the car.
A couple of my friends have done the same, but it seems like AI is eating a lot of those jobs.
Yeah, I need to do worker retraining, but I don’t know what’s a good choice. I was a caregiver, but that has shit hours and even shittier pay, and not being able to take a vacation from dementia clients trying to punch you made me burn out hard. Then I went into running embroidery machines, but I kept losing my balance and it’s just not safe.
You said these nice apartments were available, but I can’t find any, so I’m asking you.
Where do your friends live, and what do they pay for housing? How can I be like them?
I live in new york city. I don’t get the impression you’re engaging in good faith, though.
I keep being told that better is available, but am frustrated that there are never any details on how I can obtain it.
Well, you haven’t provided any details yourself so that seems fair.
I’m in a small town, my roommate owns a 750sqft 2br house with a small garden. This year, the mortgage was $800/month, but property taxes went up so next year we’ll need to rebudget for $975.
He drives a forklift, and I’m a machine operator that’s been out of work since I’ve started getting presyncope that makes it dangerous.
I would like to live closer to employment, since I don’t feel safe driving any more and the bus runs once every other hour between 9-5, but housing in the nearest midsize city is still more than twice as much, and I’d have to give up my fruit trees.
I don’t think you’d find a 2 bedroom for $1k in NYC (though you’d likely save by not needing a car, so factor that into budgets). I see some on the map (Zillow, which I don’t know if it’s the best) for Philly, which I’m told is nice, but I’ve never lived there long term. I don’t know if they’re any good. You’d have to search yourself.
Yeah, I can’t find a 2br for $1k anywhere outside Flyover Country, and any savings from not driving is largely offset by the cost of not having a garden, unless I wanted to eat lower quality produce.
What do you do for work, and how did you get there?
I know nothing about philly and can’t vouch for zillow, but a zero effort search found a bunch of hits: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/?searchQueryState={“isMapVisible”%3Atrue%2C"mapBounds"%3A{“west”%3A-75.19186800188812%2C"east"%3A-75.13255899615082%2C"south"%3A39.954194027975525%2C"north"%3A39.997933180083415}%2C"filterState"%3A{“fr”%3A{“value”%3Atrue}%2C"fsba"%3A{“value”%3Afalse}%2C"fsbo"%3A{“value”%3Afalse}%2C"nc"%3A{“value”%3Afalse}%2C"cmsn"%3A{“value”%3Afalse}%2C"auc"%3A{“value”%3Afalse}%2C"fore"%3A{“value”%3Afalse}%2C"beds"%3A{“min”%3A2}%2C"mp"%3A{“max”%3A1000}}%2C"isListVisible"%3Atrue%2C"mapZoom"%3A14}
How are you searching?
I don’t really know anything about gardening, sorry. Some places have backyards, and there are community gardens in some cities. Cars are really expensive, though. Insurance alone is probably like $50/month. Probably more.
Now? Software development. When I moved here, customer service (answering the phone, livechat, etc). Though I’m a cheapskate and still basically live like I’m making $45k. I eat a lot of rice and beans.
I was lucky that my second CS job was at a place that trained people an promoted internally, so I was able to move up in my career. They hired whole “classes” of CS people to onboard at once, and almost my whole cohort went on to do like marketing, management, software development, and other higher paying stuff. A couple of my friends have done the same, but it seems like AI is eating a lot of those jobs.
I’m filtering anything smaller than my current place, single story because presyncope. I don’t want to take a header down the stairs because I had an episode, same as not wanting to drive, I just get dizzy af and my limbs don’t follow direction well. If this turns out to be treatable, I can look for multi-story apartments, which does open up the listings a little, but you do have to look out for scam listings.
Try $100 lol. It’s a hybrid, with an hour total commute, so lets say $150 for gas. I don’t know anything about public transit or employment in Philly, so I can’t say for sure that we could get rid of the car.
Yeah, I need to do worker retraining, but I don’t know what’s a good choice. I was a caregiver, but that has shit hours and even shittier pay, and not being able to take a vacation from dementia clients trying to punch you made me burn out hard. Then I went into running embroidery machines, but I kept losing my balance and it’s just not safe.
Edit: hit send before done lol