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Here are a few suggestions.
Go to the place at around 10 pm on a Saturday night. Most places are quiet during the day; you get an idea of what the area is like after dark.
Bring a phone charger and test every outlet. Check every faucet and see if the water gets hot.
Step into the shower or lay down in the tub.
Be sure you can bring in the furniture you already have. Some places have weird, narrow passages.
Make sure that there's a grocery in walking distance.
edit = I forgot something. A lot of places these days are illegal conversions; houses designed for one family that now have several apartments.
If you place is a walkup, make sure that you can get out in case of a fire.
laughs in american 😅
In the US, make sure there's a well stocked grocery store that sells fresh fruits and veggies in close car distance.
There are places where even that isn't possible
Where do you live where there's a lot of action on a Saturday night and no food stores nearby?
a sleepy town in orange county, california. There's no action, one has to drive to get some activity. But the schools are really good and the environment is very safe, and it's within driving distance of 2 major job hubs (LA and Irvine).
I live in Philly and schools were so "ghetto" :(
I got builled so much, so much Sinophobia for some reason...
I think the elementary and middle school were like 2/10 and the highschool was like 3/10
ugh
so... damn... miserable...
no idea how I survived that...
Oh wait I didn't really survived that, I got battle scars
some dipshit decided to fight me and I got arrested
Thank god¹ I have citizenship to shield me from potential deportation issues
¹okay well not god lol, just a figure of speech, thanks mom for having citizenship so I automatically got it as a minor
I have a Chinese restaurant and bakery within like... 10-20 minute walking distance
A sort of mall area and a bunch of stores withing 15-25 minute walking distance
My mother got robbed once while carrying like red-envelopes worth of like $500 after Chinese news years... so yea there was that...
Feels kinda like wild west lol 👀
Chaotic af
I hear a bunch of "fireworks" in the middle of the night...
Yea I'll just pretend its fireworks, definitely not some dude that drove out of kensington and started doing a drive-by. 'Murica, baby!
Jesus christ, I have to move to a good neighborhood before ever having kids, cuz this shit is torture lol
I hated my mom for moving us to Philly. WTF
Brooklyn was FINE. WHYYY?!? School was 8/10 now dropped to ass 2/10
So much trauma... thanks mom
(Cuz NYC rent was so expensive and it kept rising like there was a $100 rise in rent by the time we were about to leave)
So yea... now in Philly, my parents own this house now... cuz housing is cheaper here, NYC, even Brooklyn was so expensive and impossibl to buy... so here, no rent to pay... but at what cost?
Well now I know what the back of the police car and the inside of a detention cell look like
yay
Fucking Sinophobes everywhere jesus christ
Did this series end?
???
I mean I finish K-12 by now if that's what you mean
But I'm still in Philly 🤷♂️
Sounded like you were rewording The Fresh Prince of Bel Aire song lmao.
What lmao? no idea wtf that is but this is my actual life story
I mean I know sounds like a movie plot but like sadly this is irl
I feel like my life is scripted
Random "exciting" events randomly happen to make this "plot" interesting
Like oh hey you moved to America? Guess what? Trump 2.0 😭 (wtf, universe)
Also Covid made me so afraid of germs and "contamination"
I'm just rambling all the time
So it probably sounds so giberish
Like... when I comment, I just type words as if I'm talking to someone irl so I have a bunch half-sentences, cuz thats how I talk irl
https://youtu.be/1nCqRmx3Dnw
😂 lol
I wasn't born here tho
One thing about the electricity check, get an outlet tester with a ground indicator and use that, some places don’t have grounded plugs, your UPS and some power bars might tell you this info as well, would be a tad late at that point though.
Also look for burn marks on the sockets while you’re testing, improperly set up outlets also sometimes spark a bit when things are plugged into them.
An outlet tester is the best $10 you can spend for a little peace of mind
New York City here.
Made me realize that the civil servants/power companies in my area actually do their job.
I don't think I've ever seen an apartment where there were burn marks around the outlets, and I've been in some sketchy places
Eh I don't know how often that is the case, depends on the building :P
At one point the roommates and I were living in a house in Williamsburg with the owner living upstairs above us. The owner bought the house a few years prior, apparently the original owner did all the electrical work himself. You could tell everything was wonky, most of the outlets weren't grounded, many outlets were installed upside down, two bedrooms along with the kitchen and bathroom were on the same circuit so half the apartment would lose electricity whenever someone ran a hair dryer in one room along with the toaster in the kitchen. The building's circuit breakers were downstairs in someone else's basement apartment so we got to know our downstairs neighbor pretty well, haha.
I used to wonder how that house passed inspection or if NYC even does those type of inspections. Eventually the owner re-sold the house and we had to move so that was that. But I get the feeling there are tons of old houses in Brooklyn/Queens like that.
I never said I'd been in every apartment, just that I personally had never seen anything like that.
Yeah, you get a lot of illegal conversions these days. In fact I lived in one for about six months until the other tenants in the building called the City. They did a good job with the utilities, but they said that there was no way out of my apartment if there was a fire.
Sounds like communism to me. >:(
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