Homelessness ho?
Nov. 10th, 2008 12:09 pmIn three weeks from today, I must be out of my current apartment and moving into a new one. As of right now, I don’t have one. In fact, I just found out that the one I’ve already applied for went to someone else, and that the lead I thought my second-best shot was actually the result of a clerical error on a website.
I’m starting to wonder what to do. I want a one-bedroom apartment, with a strong preference for a real apartment rather than a basement suite; under $900/month (I’d prefer under $800 but, well, this is Vancouver), and I need to have access to transit since I don’t have a car. This means, for my purposes, Mt. Pleasant, the Main/Commercial areas, the Broadway corridor, maybe Kits, or anywhere that’s close to a Skytrain station (even Burnaby, though it’d cost me in transit passes).
Unfortunately, time is running out and opportunities aren’t exactly leaping at me. I’m starting to think that what I’ll get will either be a small bachelor’s suite, or a smallish basement suite, in a poor location, where I’ll be locked into a lease and stuck for the foreseeable future.
So far, this December move isn’t working out great.