I currently live in Lawrenceville, NJ, 73 miles from my office [DELETED]. My lease on the apartment is up at the end of April, so I have to make some sort of decision soon. Becky, my current roommate, would like to live with her boyfriend in the apartment once I leave, but I do have the option of staying if I want. Becky would continue living here, I guess until however long we extend the least for. I don’t want to put her in that position, so I’m looking for other options.
I can’t afford to live anywhere by myself unless a part of a house is rented to me. In that case, I would need to pay for storage for my possessions. Whether I like it or not, I’m also hardly ever home, so it doesn’t make sense to pay too much for a place to live. It would make sense for me to live closer to work, except that it is more expensive to live up here, and it would be more unlikely that I’d see my friends, who all still generally live in the same area.
If I do end up moving closer to work, there is a slight chance that the office might move from Bergenfield to Asbury Park as early as December this year, and an ever slighter change that we might move in August. It would not make me happy to move all the way up here and sign a lease, only to find out I will have to commute to Asbury Park from Bergenfield every day. In this case, I can forget about ever seeing andybody I know ever again.
Here’s a thought. Move somewhere because of a motivation other than work. Frankly, what has your job done for you lately to deserve so much of your attention? Try moving to someplace because you like the area, or because you like people that live there. 🙂 But don’t move to Reading. I definitely don’t recommend it.
Yeah…I think you should stay in this area. Good area. I like it. 🙂
perhaps somewhere inbetween???
how about D.C.? 😉
Spike, you’ve *always* needed to pay for storage for some of your stuff.