{"id":41813,"date":"2025-01-22T21:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/apartment\/where-to-live-angst-our-little-apartment\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T21:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:01:38","slug":"where-to-live-angst-our-little-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=41813","title":{"rendered":"Where to Live Angst. &#8211; Our Little Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourlittleapartment.com\/where-to-live-angst\/noho-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.ourlittleapartment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/noho.png\" data-orig-size=\"740,433\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"noho\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.ourlittleapartment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/noho-300x176.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.ourlittleapartment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/noho.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19808\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourlittleapartment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/noho.png 740w, https:\/\/www.ourlittleapartment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/noho-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I talked about the BIG where to live. We are here in Massachusetts, but deciding where to live once we landed here was difficult. We spent a year living on the edge of a rich suburb a few miles from Mike\u2019s school. We had nothing to walk to and it was fairly dull. We found that the city everyone said we would love? We did. So we moved here after the first year.<\/p>\n<p>We love, love, love our little city. It\u2019s perfect for us in almost every way. We love our little townhouse.\u00a0<span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"1dt62-1-0\">We love being able to walk to restaurants, a library, a discount natural foods store, a small indoor mall, a park, and plenty of coffee shops that make <em>fantastic <\/em>lattes<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"1dt62-2-0\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s most of the things we need to be happy: Walkable! Accepting\/progressive! Full of good food! Safe! Nice people!<\/p>\n<p>The only shortcomings are: Winter. Cost. Diversity.<\/p>\n<p>I may have made peace with the <strong>weather<\/strong>, check back in a few months to see. I would <em>prefer<\/em> to not be freezing for so many months. But investing in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/39LUn3Y\">good boots<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2JBneNQ\">a coat<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/39Obcv5\">a treadmill<\/a> so I can stay active indoors even when it\u2019s cold has helped. (The winter\u2019s project: get good gloves and hat!)<\/p>\n<p>The biggest drawback is the <strong>cost<\/strong>. We cannot really afford to buy a home here, they are just SO out of budget. We have saved a lot for a downpayment of a huge house in Ohio, but the housing prices are sooooo much higher here. We could move outside the city to the more rural areas, as many people do, but then we\u2019d lose everything we love about living here. Plus, have to get a second car and drive anywhere we want to go. Driving downtown and paying for parking any time we want to go out to eat. And still have a commute for Mike.<\/p>\n<p>And the area we live in seems to be only truly vibrant, walkable area in western Massachusetts. It\u2019s all so frustrating! So, we continue to be grateful to have an affordable, comfortable townhouse to rent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4ln6i\" data-offset-key=\"du3kk-0-0\">\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"du3kk-0-0\"><strong>Diversity<\/strong> is the final sticking point for this area. I grew up overseas where my classmates were from all over the world. <\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"du3kk-1-0\">Even when I lived in the States, I never heard anyone talk about \u201cbad\u201d or \u201cgood\u201d areas in my town (often <\/span><\/span><span class=\"qualifier\"><span data-offset-key=\"du3kk-2-0\">just<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"du3kk-3-0\"> code for\u00a0\u201cpoor and not white\u201d and\u00a0\u201cwealthy and white\u201d)<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"du3kk-4-0\">. I\u2019m a firm believer in not isolating ourselves. It feels especially important for my kids. I want them to grow up going to church, school, the library, grocery store, etc with people who don\u2019t look like them. It\u2019s so much easier to \u201cother\u201d the other when you don\u2019t live and work and study with them every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A few years ago, I had a young relative of mine who lives in a white, rich suburb. I was driving him somewhere that took us through a poorer area with more people of color. He made some comment about how unsafe it seemed and I was like, \u201cYou mean because there are poor people and brown people walking around?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our perceived safety is affected by the people we live around \u2013 so if we are never exposed to those who look and live differently, we *feel* less safe around them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. So it\u2019s a big value of mine, and something that proved incredibly hard to find in western Massachusetts. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s a New England thing or a western Mass thing, but it\u2019s very segregated here.<\/p>\n<p>In Ohio, we lived in an incredibly racially diverse neighborhood. I know it\u2019s possible! I really hope we can land somewhere like that again.<\/p>\n<p>(PS: These are just our<em>\u00a0<\/em>values. No judgement on anyone with different values or who chooses to live somewhere isolated and drives everywhere! I\u2019m only interested in living in alignment with our own values, not judging the actions of others. You do you, sister.)<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I talked about the BIG where to live. We are here in Massachusetts, but deciding where to live once we landed here was difficult. We spent a year living on the edge of a rich suburb a few miles from Mike\u2019s school. We had nothing to walk to and it was fairly dull. 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