The Inevitable Real Estate Compromise.
During a recent apartment hunt in Brooklyn, New York, the necessity to prioritize the pros and cons of ideal living became increasingly apparent. In my highly-sought-after childhood borough, the comforts of square footage are constantly compromised for popular locations, leak-less ceilings for noisy neighbors, landlords for landscapes, and backyards for bank accounts, while the disadvantages become sugarcoated in creative solutions. Signing a lease is as much about one's willingness to sacrifice values as it is about finding imaginative ways to make the best out of a bad situation. Floor fans are purchased off craigslist mid-winter (to drown out the French siblings squabbling upstairs) while Chinese food delivery is a mere skip and a hop down the hall from the ground floor walk-up. Enjoy!
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I have no idea what this blogger's point is. On the other hand,our first apt.,we lived in a building with many very old people.One guy was so old that he took to urinating in the hall.He just couldn't make it upstairs in time.Incontinence happens.Everyone looked the other way.Another was the landlord, who was also so old that my husband used to do his work so he could keep his (free) apt.We knew what it meant to be young and healthy.It is no hardship to help others.Joan Baez wrote a song about it called Say Hello In There.I knew it then, I know it now standing on the other side of the music.
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