Houseing it Up

We're looking for a house. It's really hard. In Brooklyn, it's hard to find anything affordable. If it's affordable (to us), it's not in a great area (for us). "Not in a great area" (to us) means that either a) there is an uncomfortable amount of crime (as reported by the City crime website), b) the schools aren't ideal (as reported by the City school info website), c) there is some kind of unfavorable attribute to the immediate surroundings (eg: under/alongside a major roadway, very industrial, without greenery, etc).

Where are we looking?

Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, South Park Slope (ideal locations), and then there's Bed-Stuy, and increasingly the suburbs (Yonkers, Riverdale (not actual suburb, but close), Philadelphia). What's also tricky is that amidst this process, lots of questions about our vocations/careers/jobs are coming up. What do we want to do? Who do we want to be? Where do we want to live? I think it would be helpful to nail down details to some of these questions.

But the point of this blog is to document our process. To make note of places we've seen. And to hopefully have a happy ending to report on.