Oh I lucked out in the one bedroom. I'm renting, and got it back in the 1990s, when my area of Brooklyn was not that popular and sort of grungy. Since I was a great tenant (apparently all you have to do is pay rent on time, rarely complain and not disturb the other occupants), the former landlord rent stabilized me. So as result, it only goes up 4% each year or $50 bucks.
Cheapest apartment on my block and in my building. I'm roughly 100-200 dollars less than everyone else who has a similar apartment in a brown stone on my block. Although downstairs tenant may be catching up to me, because landlord got tired of the constant turn-over in the downstairs flats. (the new luxurary apts are not only smaller but twice as much, because you know, spanky new kitchen appliances, which weirdly don't last as long.)
Yeah, I think San Franscisco, Chicago and possibly Boston may be the only US cities I could live in - they have that same homey, unique, overwhelming flair. Abroad my favorite city was London and Paris - which are similar. Although Sydney, Australia reminded me a lot of San Franscisco.
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Date: 2014-01-11 06:30 pm (UTC)Cheapest apartment on my block and in my building. I'm roughly 100-200 dollars less than everyone else who has a similar apartment in a brown stone on my block. Although downstairs tenant may be catching up to me, because landlord got tired of the constant turn-over in the downstairs flats. (the new luxurary apts are not only smaller but twice as much, because you know, spanky new kitchen appliances, which weirdly don't last as long.)
Yeah, I think San Franscisco, Chicago and possibly Boston may be the only US cities I could live in - they have that same homey, unique, overwhelming flair. Abroad my favorite city was London and Paris - which are similar.
Although Sydney, Australia reminded me a lot of San Franscisco.