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Megan and I are going to Philadelphia this weekend to look at apartments. We’re actually staying with TB at his parents’ house in Maryland and driving into Philly during the days. We’re going there just to get an idea of which neighborhoods we would like to live in. We’ll probably arrange tours of a couple places in a few weeks, once we narrow-down where we want to live.

In my idle time at work today I’ve been searching for apartments online. While searching, I’ve notice my standards for a place to live have really risen over the past two years.

When we were searching for our first apartment, we really had no idea what to look for and we needed a place that was close to the CWRU campus. That’s how we ended up choosing out first apartment. While we were searching for a new place last year, we knew to look for some of the features that our old place was missing, the most important being a garbage disposal and exhaust fans in the kitchen and bathroom (the bathroom in our old place never dried out therefore there was always mold on the ceiling).

Our current apartment has a garbage disposal, exhaust fans, and 1-1/2 baths. I don’t really see us moving into a new place that doesn’t have these features, especially the 1-1/2 baths. I don’t know how we ever got along without them.

Now as I search, I find myself interested mainly in places that have even more features, like in-unit washer and dryer, and air conditioning. At first I thought I was being too picky but now I think it’s proabaly a good thing. Having high expectations and modest budget has been a good way to shorten an otherwise long list of apartments to about eight places.