any savings from not driving is largely offset by the cost of not having a garden, unless I wanted to eat lower quality produce.
I don’t really know anything about gardening, sorry. Some places have backyards, and there are community gardens in some cities. Cars are really expensive, though. Insurance alone is probably like $50/month. Probably more.
What do you do for work, and how did you get there?
Now? Software development. When I moved here, customer service (answering the phone, livechat, etc). Though I’m a cheapskate and still basically live like I’m making $45k. I eat a lot of rice and beans.
I was lucky that my second CS job was at a place that trained people an promoted internally, so I was able to move up in my career. They hired whole “classes” of CS people to onboard at once, and almost my whole cohort went on to do like marketing, management, software development, and other higher paying stuff. A couple of my friends have done the same, but it seems like AI is eating a lot of those jobs.
I’m filtering anything smaller than my current place, single story because presyncope. I don’t want to take a header down the stairs because I had an episode, same as not wanting to drive, I just get dizzy af and my limbs don’t follow direction well. If this turns out to be treatable, I can look for multi-story apartments, which does open up the listings a little, but you do have to look out for scam listings.
Insurance alone is probably like $50/month
Try $100 lol. It’s a hybrid, with an hour total commute, so lets say $150 for gas. I don’t know anything about public transit or employment in Philly, so I can’t say for sure that we could get rid of the car.
A couple of my friends have done the same, but it seems like AI is eating a lot of those jobs.
Yeah, I need to do worker retraining, but I don’t know what’s a good choice. I was a caregiver, but that has shit hours and even shittier pay, and not being able to take a vacation from dementia clients trying to punch you made me burn out hard. Then I went into running embroidery machines, but I kept losing my balance and it’s just not safe.
I know nothing about philly and can’t vouch for zillow, but a zero effort search found a bunch of hits: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/?searchQueryState={“isMapVisible”%3Atrue%2C"mapBounds"%3A{“west”%3A-75.19186800188812%2C"east"%3A-75.13255899615082%2C"south"%3A39.954194027975525%2C"north"%3A39.997933180083415}%2C"filterState"%3A{“fr”%3A{“value”%3Atrue}%2C"fsba"%3A{“value”%3Afalse}%2C"fsbo"%3A{“value”%3Afalse}%2C"nc"%3A{“value”%3Afalse}%2C"cmsn"%3A{“value”%3Afalse}%2C"auc"%3A{“value”%3Afalse}%2C"fore"%3A{“value”%3Afalse}%2C"beds"%3A{“min”%3A2}%2C"mp"%3A{“max”%3A1000}}%2C"isListVisible"%3Atrue%2C"mapZoom"%3A14}
How are you searching?
I don’t really know anything about gardening, sorry. Some places have backyards, and there are community gardens in some cities. Cars are really expensive, though. Insurance alone is probably like $50/month. Probably more.
Now? Software development. When I moved here, customer service (answering the phone, livechat, etc). Though I’m a cheapskate and still basically live like I’m making $45k. I eat a lot of rice and beans.
I was lucky that my second CS job was at a place that trained people an promoted internally, so I was able to move up in my career. They hired whole “classes” of CS people to onboard at once, and almost my whole cohort went on to do like marketing, management, software development, and other higher paying stuff. A couple of my friends have done the same, but it seems like AI is eating a lot of those jobs.
I’m filtering anything smaller than my current place, single story because presyncope. I don’t want to take a header down the stairs because I had an episode, same as not wanting to drive, I just get dizzy af and my limbs don’t follow direction well. If this turns out to be treatable, I can look for multi-story apartments, which does open up the listings a little, but you do have to look out for scam listings.
Try $100 lol. It’s a hybrid, with an hour total commute, so lets say $150 for gas. I don’t know anything about public transit or employment in Philly, so I can’t say for sure that we could get rid of the car.
Yeah, I need to do worker retraining, but I don’t know what’s a good choice. I was a caregiver, but that has shit hours and even shittier pay, and not being able to take a vacation from dementia clients trying to punch you made me burn out hard. Then I went into running embroidery machines, but I kept losing my balance and it’s just not safe.
Edit: hit send before done lol