Thanks. So there are no common bad or commonly regretted decisions, ways people commonly get exploited, factors people commonly neglect or anything of that sort? (Also, do I really have that many degrees of freedom at ~$1000 a month?)
If so, that’s good to know, but I’m still not sure how to actually do it. Is there a centralized list of housing providers, possibly one that can be automatically ranked by relevant criteria? Amazon pretends to do that with computers, but (last I checked) many if not most models don’t have the relevant fields entered and so don’t show up.
There are commonly regretted decisions but… it not unusual to regret leaving family and moving far away for a job. It’s also not unusual to regret not taking a job far away in order to stay with the family.
Yes, you do have a lot of degrees of freedom at ~$1K/month (I am assuming you’re single and have no expensive habits). All that it rules out is a few expensive cities (e.g. NYC, SF) and single-family-house suburbs. And even then you can live in NYC or SF if you’re OK with living in a bad neighborhood. How high do you value security is one of items on the preferences-you-need-to-figure-out list.
I don’t understand what do you mean by a “list of housing providers”. First you need to decide on a region and a town (or a few towns) and then you can go look at Craigslist.
Thanks. So there are no common bad or commonly regretted decisions, ways people commonly get exploited, factors people commonly neglect or anything of that sort? (Also, do I really have that many degrees of freedom at ~$1000 a month?)
If so, that’s good to know, but I’m still not sure how to actually do it. Is there a centralized list of housing providers, possibly one that can be automatically ranked by relevant criteria? Amazon pretends to do that with computers, but (last I checked) many if not most models don’t have the relevant fields entered and so don’t show up.
There are commonly regretted decisions but… it not unusual to regret leaving family and moving far away for a job. It’s also not unusual to regret not taking a job far away in order to stay with the family.
Yes, you do have a lot of degrees of freedom at ~$1K/month (I am assuming you’re single and have no expensive habits). All that it rules out is a few expensive cities (e.g. NYC, SF) and single-family-house suburbs. And even then you can live in NYC or SF if you’re OK with living in a bad neighborhood. How high do you value security is one of items on the preferences-you-need-to-figure-out list.
I don’t understand what do you mean by a “list of housing providers”. First you need to decide on a region and a town (or a few towns) and then you can go look at Craigslist.