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Sunday, November 25, 2007
Greetings from our new residence in Denver!
After my last post things happened very quickly. We got an offer on the house which was close enough to asking price to break even, and given the increasingly difficult market conditions we decided to accept. That, of course, was the easy part. We found ourselves with a very short timeframe, just over one month, in which to either find the perfect place to live or find a place to rent temporarily and have to move twice. Luckily we managed to do the former. We found a newly-built townhouse condo unit with a layout and size that would suit our needs (finding places which would accommodate our grand piano was a chore). Its best feature by far though is the location; it's in the Lower Highlands ("LoHi") neighborhood, which is close enough to downtown to easily walk there, but far enough to be out of the Crazy, and of course more affordable.
It was a big chance we took, but so far it has totally lived up to our expectations. We've been taking advantage of our new walkable environment as much as we can since we moved in, and are absolutely loving it. There's just something about being able to get places on your own two feet that feels so much more fulfilling and natural. I like standing halfway across the pedestrian bridge over I-25 and looking down on all the cars zooming underneath and being so glad that I'm not one of them. It's much more "our speed" as Julie likes to say.
Of course the process to get here, especially the stress of finding the right place on a short schedule and the hell that was moving day (I won't go into details), made us wonder at the time if it would be worth it. And the condo is still a complete mess of unpacked boxes and random stuff piled everywhere, so it'll be weeks or months before the place feels truly like a comfortable home. But in the long term I think we're both convinced this was the right decision for us.
