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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:24 PM Original message |
describe your first apartment on your own. Daughter and her best friend got an apartment |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. Poor babies. |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
2. I was 17 and couldn't get anything done in my college dorm. |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
3. I lived on my own and loved it. Most people should, at some time in their lives, I think. |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:41 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I just realized I have never lived alone. |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 07:55 AM Response to Reply #5 |
27. When I was young, I remember my mom telling me I should live alone at least once in my life. |
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susanr516 (823 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:50 PM Response to Reply #5 |
51. I've never lived alone either |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
4. The apartment wasn't too bad but my roommate was a nightmare. |
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fizzgig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
6. i lived with my boyfriend and our best friend |
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Tabasco_Dave (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
7. Very 60's fake Tudor building |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
8. first place i lived in that wasnt a barracks was when i went to live in maryland |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 01:06 AM Response to Reply #8 |
25. first time apart from the army that i had ever slept indoors in my life |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. Just off Berkeley campus; ugly 60s building, tiny studio, gross orange carpeting |
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likesmountains 52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
10. One bedroom apt. in Capitol Hill, Denver...1972 |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 09:02 AM Response to Reply #10 |
32. In 1991 I had rent of $37.50 per month |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 03:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
36. Hey, I lived on Capitol Hill, too, |
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likesmountains 52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 10:22 PM Response to Reply #36 |
46. oh, yes. ..cheap, plentiful and good. We've crossed paths on DU before about Denver in the |
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Roon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
11. The apartment I have now was my first apartment |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
12. It was the upstairs of a converted barn |
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DeposeTheBoyKing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
13. I had a studio apartment in a not-so-great part of Wichita |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
14. Little studio apartment. |
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Rhythm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
15. 3 bedroom place i shared with two of my Rocky Horror floor-show castmates |
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Madrone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:54 AM Response to Reply #15 |
23. You were in a Rocky Horror floor show cast??!?!! |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
16. roach infested studio on the 8th floor |
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nolabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
17. A New Orleans mansion divided into apartments. |
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Silver Swan (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
18. My first apartment |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
19. Shotgun shack built circa 1940's. |
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grace0418 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
20. Champaign, Illinois. 1990. Four bedroom, one bath apartment. Rent was |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
21. I dont know which would be considered "first" |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
22. My technical first |
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WCIL (265 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
24. An attic apartment |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 01:45 AM Response to Original message |
26. I never lived on my own, but hubby and I did live in a dinky little 3 room apartment for the |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 07:57 AM Response to Original message |
28. I would describe it, but I need my mother's help to do so and I won't do it on my own. |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
29. A dorm room. |
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nuxvomica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
30. 2nd floor front apartment in an old house on the main street... |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
31. it was a great place above a bodega in sacramento. had the neon sign outside my window |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
33. outside D.C., 2002: very small studio apartment, run down building, |
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suninvited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
34. I got married in Hawaii in 1979, when I was only 18 |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
35. My first apartment |
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EndersDame (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
37. I moved in with two crazy ladies in their 30s and I was not prepared at all |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
38. In 2000, it was a pretty big place for one person...my boss was my landlord |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
39. 11th floor, Yonkers, overlooking Hudson River, cost more per month than a mortgage in 99% of America |
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la_chupa (357 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
40. 1986 my god it seems like yesterday |
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seemunkee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
41. Moved in with my girlfriend and now wife for 24 years |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
42. My first real place (not counting a campus apartment) |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
43. A one-room pad in 1966 |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
44. group house full of vegetarian grad and medical students |
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
45. It was in the attic of a cute Cape Cod house in VA. |
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 11:36 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. that sounds really cool |
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Rising Phoenix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
47. on my own....no mommy daddy help |
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Rising Phoenix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 10:33 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. I was living with my fiance at the time |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-09-09 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
49. 1st appt. - studio with small patio. Crazy apartment building - folks fighting all the time. |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 03:06 AM Response to Original message |
52. It was a studio apartment in a semi-bad neighborhood. |
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fudge stripe cookays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-10-09 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
53. Wonderful. |
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