How do you live?

After talking about neighbours, I wonder how you live.

We live 25 kilometers from Stockholm. In a house that be bought last summer. It's 170 squaremeters. Has 4 bedrooms, 2 bathroom, kitchen, big livingroom, and a glassroom with heating so we can use it in the winter aswell. A garage.

under the bridge :)

in the valley, on the hill, on alcohol, on pills

I live in a 25 story apartment building; I'm on the second floor, which is at street level at one entrance because the building is built into a hill.

My apartment is a one-bedroom apartment; it is a a simple rectangle design, 650 square feet, and has a bedroom, bathroom, living room, and kitchen. It also has a garden, which most apartments in this building don't have. The garden is below street level, because, again, the building is built into a hill.

The apartment has an oak parquet entry, but the rest of the apartment has white carpet (I would prefer wood floors, and may move to another apartment in the building for that reason). The walls are white as well, and tastefully decorated with expensively framed art: Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures," the Cure's "Lovesong" print from the single, a poster from a Serbian film, and New Order's "Substance."

I have nearly twenty feet of bookshelves (black) lining one wall of my living room, a black futon, and a black entertainment center. I also have two computer desks and a file cabinet in my living room. I hate having them there, but I'm on a student budget, and can't afford more space now. Between the living room and kitchen, I have three utility racks (black) acting as a room divider; I keep my plates, glassware, and pots and pans on the kitchen side of these racks. In my bedroom, I have another 7 feet of bookshelves (black), another entertainment center (black), an armoire (white, which must be repainted to black), a queen-size bed, and a natural-color wicker bedroom set: dresser, two nightstands, and headboard.

My building is in uptown Portland, about a 15 minute walk from downtown Portland; it is across from a street called Northwest Twenty-Third, which is referred to derisively by hipsters as Northwest Trendy-Third, because of the shops and cafes along the street. The best pizza place in Portland is a few blocks away. The second-best pizza place in Portland is across the street. The best Thai restaurant in Portland is around the corner. So is the best Indian restaurant. And on and on and on....

I'm two blocks from a series of parks: Washington Park, the Rose Garden, The Japanese Garden, The Portland Zoo, and Portland's largest park, Forest Park, a large expanse of natural forest.

I pay more in rent than most other students, because of my building's location, and because I don't share an apartment with a flatmate, but it all works out the same in the end, I think, because I don't need a car (I can walk to everything I need), and because I don't have the high utility bills other people have (the management company heats the common areas, and the heat leaks under my door, saving me on heating costs  :)  ). Also, my rent is the same now as it was three years ago. The same apartment today would rent for $120 more per month. Every time I do the math, it ends up making more sense to stay here than to move.

So that's it-- living the starving student life, in style.

In Boston, I live in a dorm room with two beds and a bathroom. The kitchen is in the same room as the beds. In Philly, I'm in a duplex in a dull, urban redneck-infested neighborhood in the lower northwest section of the city. I can look out of my room and see the express way. But, there's three floors in front, two in back, and the right walls have no windows. There's about 7 rooms. The back of the house faces a wall which is crumbling apart.

Sounds like my college time...

I,m LIVING on the EDGE!

By killing anyone who fucks with me.... OK?

a 5 minute drive from universal studios, in west orlando. universal kicks the mouse's ass.

Always knew you liked U2 Mick

ACTUNG DIGGY!

I live in a nice three bedroomed house in a town about 50 miles from London. We have a good sized garden and a decent cellar that I am slowly turning into a studio. It'll do for now. I've also got a three bedroomed house the other side of the country that is rented out.

how very bourgeois, tim!

I live in a three bedroom SEMI-DETACHED house with a small garden for my LITTLE DOG to wander about.One day i will get some furniture but i like the LOOK.So many CD's and RECORDS but NO TABLES or CHAIRS.PLANET ROCKET it is called.Like the TARDIS it is BIGGER in the INSIDE than it looks from the roadside.Respectable area for a very UNDESIRABLE owner.Great.........think i will EAT the lawn!

I lost my home. Once became a stranger, I have no home anywhere anymore. I have no country, no people, no home, no goals... I'm seeking. Maybe I'll get one some day somewhere.... On the one hand I feel free as a bird, but on the other hand I am as blank as a desert stone. :(

|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: I lost my home. Once became a stranger, I have no home anywhere anymore. I have no country, no people, no home, no goals... I'm seeking. Maybe I'll get one some day somewhere.... On the one hand I feel free as a bird, but on the other hand I am as blank as a desert stone. :(

Is that good or bad?

Rian wrote:

|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: I lost my home. Once became a stranger, I have no home anywhere anymore. I have no country, no people, no home, no goals... I'm seeking. Maybe I'll get one some day somewhere.... On the one hand I feel free as a bird, but on the other hand I am as blank as a desert stone. :(

Is that good or bad?

So far so good. :)