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So yeah today I drove down to Capitol Hill today to check out the area. See if it’s a good place to live. It looks like it is. I have to find an apartment in the next 2 to 3 weeks and a good way to start is to figure out what sort of neighborhood I would like to dwell in.

It’s like Fitzroy but (oddly) there are European car dealerships instead of pawn shops

It reminds me of parts of Melbourne’s inner suburbs, which I guess is natural because it technically is one. It’s close enough to the city that you wouldn’t balk at the idea of taking a taxi home. I saw some young people and a bunch of young families. I saw apartment buildings ranging from nice to pretty crappy. Like, they looked like those run-down motels you see in movies where people are forced to spend the night because they’re driving cross-country but it turns out there’s an ax murderer on the loose. Or a hooker’s been murdered. Or there was a mob hit and the guy is lying face down in the pool.

Anyway, it seems like a good place to live.

My brain always goes for the short-term rewards

I was going to drive from Capitol Hill to Fremont so I could get a glimpse of what its like to live there. Fremont is further from the city but a few apartments seem to offer views of Lake Union. I can’t tell you how good it is because I didn’t wind up going there. I missed the turn from Denny on to Westlake and I didn’t actually realise I had missed it until I was like 3 blocks from my apartment in Belltown. So I thought, “fuck it”, and I went home.

THIS IS HOW LAZY I AM. Don’t ever accuse me of being hard-working.

Never fear. I will check out Fremont tomorrow. And maybe Wallingford and the University District. It’s all part of a plan.

Dumb fact: Today I shopped at Trader Joe’s for the first time. I didn’t really need anything besides bread so that’s what I got

What plan you ask? Well, this is a very misguided plan and in no way do I recommend this. But for whatever reason, I googled Trader Joe’s (it’s a supermarket for Californians) and 3 locations came up. And I thought, yep, I’m going to visit all three locations and explore the neighborhood while I’m there.

So today was Capitol Hill. Tomorrow, I’ll swing by Queen Anne on my way to Fremont and then from there, it’s off to Wallingford and University.

Ok yeah, I’ll stop linking to Google

I know it seems like I’m dropping all these names like I know Seattle. I don’t. I’m still constantly lost but now I have Google Maps on my phone and I don’t feel as insecure just walking around. Driving also doesn’t freak me out as much because I’ve seen some pretty awful driving and I feel a bit more superior now. Also, I keep visiting Starbucks because the independent coffee places are too popular. Yay for anti-conformists.