Why We're Happy To Be Moving
Sep. 30th, 2009 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseIn the past, whenever I've told local people we want to move out of Juneau, I've generally gotten one of two reactions: "Why would you want to go anywhere else?" or "I totally hear you, I'll be leaving myself soon." (A subset of the second is the "I'd love to go, too, but my friends/family/job/home is here/it's so expensive to leave," which is understandable - one of the great things about this town is how extensive the social support network is. Comes of being such an isolated place, I guess.)
So for people in the first category, here's your answer. You may or may not have seen our first apartment; it was a pretty nice little place, maybe 700 square feet or so. Two bedrooms, one bath, older fixtures but well kept up. Very little counter space in the bathroom and kind of a smallish kitchen. Part of a 4-plex filled mostly with young professionals (at least until the noisy college kids moved in upstairs). The sort of place you'd imagine a mid-to-upper-middle-class couple starting a life together in - small, basic, but cozy. The rent? $1050 a month.
This is what the same rent will get you in Sierra Vista. Skylights! A fireplace! A two-car garage! Two bathrooms! A master suite! Big landscaped backyard with patio! Giant kitchen for hosting dinner parties! A whole house of our own! (I've already sent an email expressing interest; we'll see if the owners reply.)
Juneau, we love you and you're a great place with many wonderful qualities, but we think it's time we moved on. It's not you, it's us. We've just outgrown the relationship, that's all. Can we still be friends?
So for people in the first category, here's your answer. You may or may not have seen our first apartment; it was a pretty nice little place, maybe 700 square feet or so. Two bedrooms, one bath, older fixtures but well kept up. Very little counter space in the bathroom and kind of a smallish kitchen. Part of a 4-plex filled mostly with young professionals (at least until the noisy college kids moved in upstairs). The sort of place you'd imagine a mid-to-upper-middle-class couple starting a life together in - small, basic, but cozy. The rent? $1050 a month.
This is what the same rent will get you in Sierra Vista. Skylights! A fireplace! A two-car garage! Two bathrooms! A master suite! Big landscaped backyard with patio! Giant kitchen for hosting dinner parties! A whole house of our own! (I've already sent an email expressing interest; we'll see if the owners reply.)
Juneau, we love you and you're a great place with many wonderful qualities, but we think it's time we moved on. It's not you, it's us. We've just outgrown the relationship, that's all. Can we still be friends?
