The good, the bad, and the clogged.

So I’ve moved. The place looks pretty good. I really think it’s pretty much exactly the quality I had in DC (but much bigger, more expensive, and less “safe”). Safe is a term I use in a very stereotypical way. “Safe”, as I use it here, is “word on the street” rating of the safety. Because, honestly, I feel very safe, and everyone seems very nice. Unfortunately, safety is not a majority vote. It only takes one person to make a place “unsafe”. They gave us our apartment keys, but not our mail keys.

They clearly did not finish the place. There are several things wrong such as:
The kitchen window is broken (though only one of the double panes, so it’s still closed).
The security gate on the kitchen window was removed and not put back up.
The entry light has no cover on it.
The front door is missing two locks and a working peep-hole.
There is no phone-jack in this apartment.
The dinning room electric outlet does not work.
One outlet in the living room barely works.
The bottom hinge of the smaller bedroom is not properly installed, which means the door does not close.
The bathtub is missing the drain ring and stopper.
I requested that the child proof window guards be removed.
The radiator in the small bedroom is missing the control knob.
The bathtub does not drain.
Dirty laundry was left in the built in hamper thing.
Debris was left in the bathroom.

There was less wrong with the ex-roommate’s place, but some different things. Like the smoke detector isn’t working. The paint job was ok. A little sloppy around the edges (i.e. windows). The grout job in the bathroom is less than great, but that’s ok. The floors look great, and are certainly better than the floors I had in DC where the wax would chip up in big yellow flakes. However, it is pretty easy to scratch the floors, and initially, some things were sticking to them. I think they’ve mostly dried now.

The only thing on the list that is an emergency is the fact that the bathtub does not drain. The referb guys thought it would be brilliant to let all the grout and construction powder/dust debris go down the bathtub drain. At this point the office is closed though. Fortunately the lady from last night gave me security’s number, and I called that. They were very nice, and said that the apt complex has 24/7 “emergency” maintenance. She put me on the list. It took about 3 hours for him to come, but that’s fine. They installed the sink in the wrong place, so he couldn’t open the drain access port all the way. He got it open a good amount though and sent this snake down. It took about an hour for him to fix it. Not his fault though. He was excellent. He gets a full five stars, all around. He was nice, friendly, hard-working, didn’t give up and say he’d have to call a plumber Monday. He even cleaned up the construction debris left in the bathroom. Emergency maintenance gets my highest rating.

So, we’ve started unpacking. We’ll go to target tomorrow. Good times.

Do I like it? Very much so. Will you like it? No idea. It's not luxury. It's not for everyone. But I'm a simple person, who likes functioning and adequate over fancy and luxury. I'll take some pictures later.