The Yeagers’ Experiences

So, we finally moved out of our old crappy place, and moved into a new… crappy place. Our major beef with the old apartment was that it was very noisy and inconvenient to my office. In fact, it took me an hour each way to get to work every day, which really started taking its toll. Other than that the apartment was generally of a high build quality and it was really convenient to things that you would want to live near – namely restaurants, grocery stores and the tube.

Our new apartment has some really nice furniture and everything was decorated in an Indian motif. I say “was” because although the apartment comes furnished, apparently the landlords decided to take out all of their cool decorative items when they moved out. That part is a little annoying, but more concerning is the fact that it is really poorly designed. We only have one phone jack and one satellite feed in the entire flat, and one plug outlet in each room. We have wires and extension cords everywhere! It’s actually comical every time we discover another idiosyncrasy of this place.

With that said, I really like the area. It’s called Shad Thames and is only a 15 minute walk to work for me. That means I get to sleep in longer, come home if I need to during lunch, and save money by not having to take the tube and bus every day. The area is filled with rich city workers, so we don’t have to worry anymore about drunk people getting into fights under our window at night The downside of being in Shad Thames is that the tube stations are about 15 minutes walk away and there are no grocery stores within walking distance. We have found a work around for this though, and we now order all of our groceries online, which is easier anyway!

So lesson learned – we fixed some problems but got several others instead. I suppose the grass is always greener on the other side, but I think on balance we made the right move. Plus no more pesky church bells!