relocated
I’ve lived in downtown Portland since 2001, mostly at one of the many on-campus apartments at PSU. For the past, oh, almost two years now, I’ve lived in subsidized low-income housing not too far from campus, which I qualified for by being dirt-poor right after finishing school.
This is not an experience I would recommend. These apartments were sketchy from the day I moved in. I am pretty sure that some of the other recommended prerequisites for living there included “smells like alcohol” and “carries parasites”. Living there was never dangerous so much as it was continuously frustrating and dispiriting, especially the times when we’d have to evacuate the building because some idiot set his dinner on fire and then opened up their hallway door to vent the smoke right into the detectors.
I’ve moved now, to a nice little townhouse/duplex on the other side of the river. It’s a lot quieter here, since I’m not seven stories directly above a major freeway anymore. It’s kind of nice to live in just a regular neighborhood again, and the city is just a few minutes away if I should find myself missing it.
I won’t miss my old apartment, though. The only thing I might possibly miss were early morning sunrises coming through my window.
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