Dispatch from Down the Street

So, we've upgraded our Awesome Tiny Beach Apartment.

We've left our little corner one-bedroom for a spot literally down the street. This is still a Tiny Beach Apartment, but it has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, two PARKING SPOTS, and air-conditioning.

The complex is three blocks away closer to the center of town, we're higher up in the building than before, which means it gets better cross breeze so the AC isn't as necessary at night as it would have been in the old place. We have a balcony and a loft space with some loft storage area.

The complex is even still pretty ghetto, so it matches our "I (Heart) Ghetto Long Beach"-sticker sporting ethos, and, more importantly, in our price range. Corrie can still walk to work, we're slightly closer to the Aquarium, and barely further from the grocery store.

Everyone we've met so far has been super nice.

This is looking at some of our downtown scene from the walkway to the front door:

This is fro our balcony looking west along third. I think I was trying to get the art-deco post office in the frame:

When I started this blog, we lived in the two bedroom place in Brooklyn. Then we moved to Austin and lived with Rachel. After eight months we moved to our own place in a nice complex. After another eight months we moved to Long Beach, and had been in that apartment for 8+ years.

We loved that apartment.

We also had been sleeping in the living room for two years, and had been having to store a bunch of shit in a storage unit. Why do we have so much stuff (Corrie's been asking for years)?

We have an elevator now. This is the first building I've ever lived in that has an elevator. Not my dorm, not my apartment building in Bed-Stuy, not the complex in Austin... This is also the first time since Palm St that we have a bathroom in our bedroom. Back at Palm St, though, it was the only bathroom.

Compared to what we had, our new place is a palace. For even friends and family who have plenty of space---and yards, and driveways---this new place would likely still feel pretty cramped.

And it is cramped. But we're weirdo urban-folk, and it will suit us until we can no longer handle it. And considering what we had been dealing with at the old place, that could be a while.