idk man, I couldn't handle that unless i was an oldman with a long grey beard and had a log cabin filled with books and a typewriter or something.

Nah the beach is about 25 minutes away and downtown pensacola is about the same. Theres quite a few diff clubs and bars and stuff that aren't too bad and the beach is always fun. I think I like where I live over the new orleans area. The people and cops are shittier but its cheaper, prettier, more outdoorsy shit to do although I haven't been doing it.

I'm paying 900$ a month rent right now for a 3 bedroom brick house with a garage and big back yard. I'm really only paying half that though my brother and his gf are paying the other half. I liked the condo on the beach more it was only and extra 150$ and I might talk to my cousin about doin it again in a year or two.

I think I make it sound worse than it is; most of my problem is I don't know anyone my own age. All the girls I know are married/dating someone else or evil and all the dudes are in some service or work offshore. I actually fell into meeting a pretty cool chick and some old friends and it was really great and the best time I've ever probably had. I felt content and like I was doing good/in a good place. But that all got fucked up and now I feel exactly like what you said you'd need to be in order to live out here.

So I guess what I'm tryin to say is; if you're a people person and are good at making new friends and like beach/outdoorsy shit you'd prolly be ok. You'd have to get to the whole backwater idiot mentality and shockfacter though.

You gotta think out moneys different though too. I think my brother gets like 9$-11$ an hour or something and works enough a week to come up with 500$ a week on average, thats pretty good for a job around here.

so you got to think about that with everything else the standard of living is lower too.

what, does he work 50 hours a week or something. I make about 500 a week too i guess (after the governemnt takes their generous cut). i dunno, i probably will end up starting to look in a higher price range shortly if nothing comes up.

yeah, maybe more.

oh fuck PER MONTH. I have been flicking back into this thread repeatedly for several days wondering how in the hell northern hemisphere rents were up at $500p/w for a shitty 1 room studio. my last place was $115p/w (NZ) which is $460 per month. Lived in the small room (big enough for just my bed) in a flat with asbestos and cockroaches (not anymore, we killed the fuckers) but I actually had a really good time. total expenses were like $180p/w and we lived pretty well.

thats alot. And that was just your share or the whole thing?

yeah who the fuck pays by week, I couldn't imagine having to hunt down my landlord every week. I mean mines direct deposited but still...

Edit: thats the one good thing about the states, the housing. I'm gonna save up and build me a house at bumfuck away from everything while its still possible. Not too far but far enough to not be annoyed.

Yeah, I wish I had some sort of direct deposit thing.  Me and my roomates have to track down our landlord the first of every month, but since we're getting a pretty good deal for the most part (an entire house for a total rent of like, 550) its not the worst thing in the world.  Plus our landlord has been pretty good about getting things taken care of in the house, such as fixing our water heater when it broke on New Years Day.

i'm checking out a cheap place tomorrow in a nearly perfect location (as far as convenience is concerned). close to work, close to beach, close to downtown  (not more than 15-30 minutes by public transit)

it has a private kitchen but a shared bathroom (with one other suite) and it's in an ugly bland old building. but it's only 725/mo (most slightly nicer bachelor or 1BR suites in that area are more in the range of 900-1200+ ish)


we'll see tomorrow.

bland and cheap are okay as long as they don't mean "run down" or "corners have been cut in the construction of this building."  Bland should mean, things are previously owned, but durable and are going to work when you need them to.

Move into a black neighborhood

Or live in a trailer

Location is everything. Be sure you're close(walkable distance) to 24/7 convenience stores, a department store, a bakery, and a terminal or whereever that is easy to pck up a ride.

hm. the place i checked out today was a disappointment. awesome neighborhood, but the place itself was kinda run down

you'll get used to that

haha.To be honest I find myself confused as well since I thought it was your replies when it was actualy mine. lol, i might change the username as well but i can't think of anything right now and it's not as distracting as the avatar.