Are you turning into Brent, Vicki? 3 phones?
I THINK I have a place nailed down. Everything yesterday sucked, today started out acceptable and just got better. I really like the place, don't love the area but it is acceptable, and the commute should be exceptional (walk one block, 10 minute train ride, walk 3 blocks, and I am at work in midtown). Easy to get to places I want to be. Place is a railroad in Jersey City Heights, I can be in West Hoboken in 5 minutes (walk three blocks, take an elevator down the cliff, which also puts me on NJ light rail). Place also seems quite at night, more of a working class neighborhood than hip young area, but the apartment is nice. Enter into a largish eat in kitchen, bathroom off that, then first room is large (gonna be bedroom+diy room), walk past a decent size walkin closet, and through to the living room, which is not bad at all. I should be quite comfy. Estimate 800sf. Oh, and it has fios.
I would have liked to be in Hoboken, but the only places I was able to see and afford were either tiny and really over my budget, or a heap. Like, speakers falling over because the floor is so angled, and scared to walk barefoot heap. Smaller too. Commute in Hoboken would have been a bit longer too, PATH to 33rd then walk a dozen blocks, but definitely a nicer, trendier area.
I'm onna bus!