\nIt looks like I have a place to live come January 1st, thanks to Mike’s
\ndad. Rent is far cheaper — and the place is in Sunnyvale, so I’m not exiled to
\nsocial Siberia in Fremont or Newark. God forbid anyone would have to cross a bridge
\nto visit me.\n<\/p>\n
\nAnd thus the Campaign to Recover As Much of the Deposit As Possible commences.
\nI decided to splurge and buy a new vacuum cleaner. A Hoover Windtunnel. Man,
\nit is so much more powerful than Sam’s crappy old vacuum cleaner that it’s not
\neven funny. The neatest thing is the dust particle detector, which linked
\nto a red and green light. When the light turns green, the carpet’s clean!
\nWho knew vacuuming could be so entertaining?\n<\/p>\n
\nAnyway, the rental market continues to get better and better. \nI admit, some part of me is a bit disappointed that Mike’s dad is cutting me a good It looks like I have a place to live come January 1st, thanks to Mike’s dad. Rent is far cheaper — and the place is in Sunnyvale, so I’m not exiled to social Siberia in Fremont or Newark. God forbid anyone would have to cross a bridge to visit me. And thus the Campaign to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI’ve never seen anything like it. Example 1: Nancy’s moving
\nin with Mike, into a two-bedroom in Mike’s current complex. The two-bedroom is only
\n$100\/month more than Mike’s old one-bedroom. Example 2: Pat’s made a few calls —
\nevery apartment manager wants him and Courtney to move in today<\/em>.
\nWho knew it could be like this?\n<\/p>\n
\ndeal with no fuss. Because I’d really like to go up to an anonymous apartment manager
\nand actually… you know, haggle<\/em>. “Well, if you change your mind, you’ve got
\nmy number,” I’d say, grinning as I stride out of the office. Oooh, that would have
\nbeen sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"