So let’s recap.
Monday: Found out my job has fallen through and I am not staying as long as I expected, even though it was “confirmed”
Tuesday: Ranted to colleagues and treated self to a lunch
Wednesday: Got a new apartment in a new city
Thursday: BF moved in
Friday/Saturday: Explored the city a bit and started buying toilet paper, etc.
Sunday: Decided to move out. Back to Montreal for the interim.
Why?
Because of the noise.
It isn’t the road, the neighbours, the dogs or children screaming in the halls.
This place is deathly quiet!
It’s this awful humming noise that won’t go away, because the elevator motor runs through the whole building but is not cushioned against the noise, so it vibrates against the building… creating a power plant-like feel.
We feel like we’re sleeping in labs or something, and the noise is like a soft, constant drill of your mother’s nagging against your head.
We also can’t find another apartment here in the city because it literally has 4 high-rise buildings, and this was the one of the only three apartments that were available for rent.
The other 2 were conventionally noisy with wooden walls, neighbours and pets making my allergies start up FULL BLAST.
I was sick for half the day after visiting that second apartment.
So.
Back to Montreal.
The good news, is that while I originally thought it was 6 hours to pack and unpack, it might only be an hour and a half.
I packed all my stuff in an hour. Literally.
And BF is still going on the kitchen, but it’ll take another half hour and he’s done too.
We could move and unpack in 3 hours, sans* moving time.
* sans = French for “without”
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Wow what a week!! Gosh the idea of packing up my apartment… it would take me a month. At LEAST. Wanna move to Austin?? 🙂
I wanna move to DALLAS! 🙂
I emailed you back. 😀
Sounds like a crazy week! Good luck plotting your next move.
Holy wow. That's some change in a heartbeat if I've ever heard it! Wow…that hum would drive me nuts too. I completely get that. good luck with everything!!
Thanks!
I guess it’s a good thing we’re mobile, easy-going (for the most part) minimalists 🙂
Craziness, I'm glad moving won't be so hard for you guys. This sounds like such a mess!
You’re telling me. A hot mess. And I have a feeling it isn’t over yet.
Is your appartment in montreal still available? did you have to pay full rent for the new one even though you stayed only a couple of days?
It’s still available — we have a little issue with it right now, but it’ll all work out. Even if it doesn’t, we’ll just take a day to pack and leave. 😛
Oh and no I didn’t have to pay for rent. I was staying there BEFORE moving in April 1st. I signed the lease, but under the contract it says I have to have “peaceable enjoyment” of the apartment, so that’s my way out.
It was really awful. I’d never leave a landlord in the loop like that but I couldn’t take it any more. It was like a drill in my head.
Sorry… that sucks! It is good that you don't dwell on things and just move on.
No sense in crying over spilled milk. 🙂
Well. You seem to be living in the fast lane just now – or changing lanes a lot? Mobility is the word here. Never let it be said you don't cope with change! Good luck!
We’re mobile minimalists, and I guess it’s a great thing 🙂
The good thing is that we’re both consultants so we’re very used to moving, packing, living in temporary abodes and generally handle change quite well.
Thank you!
awwh. so no hanging out in Ottawa together?
although I'm glad you found out your allergy soon… but what about your lease contract? or what about the one in Montreal – will it hold up if you've given notice? o__o?
Well the one in Montreal still holds for the time being. Will find out more by Friday.
As for the new one I signed, there’s a clause in there about peaceful enjoyment.
I WOULD have stayed, had it not been for that awful noise, so it’s not like I’m backing out for the hell of it. It was cheaper and (seemed to be) a better situation than Montreal… but everything is telling me NOT to stay there.. 😛
C'est la vie! This is a perfect example of why the minimal life is so much simpler. Imagine if you had the usual amount of dross to schlep into your new apartment? Horrors! Something better awaits!
Goodness I’d cry if I had what I had before to move each time.
I almost cried thinking of having to pack again until I timed myself and realized it was just an hour and a half.
I'm so confused! Is there a penalty for moving out early? Didn't you sign a lease?
Yes, we signed a lease but it was for April 1st. We were staying there before for free as a courtesy — and a good thing too!
There’s a clause in there about peaceful enjoyment, and that was NOT peaceful. We are sleep deprived now.. 🙁
Anyway, I would have stayed otherwise. It’s not because my contract fell through that we backed out, it’s more that the noise was like a drill in our heads — totally unbearable.
I told her to take me to court if she wanted — she doesn’t seem to want to, and I think she knows she’d lose.
Sorry things are so rough, FB. At least you and BF have each other and that's still going tres bien 🙂
In a disaster, you 2 could pack up ALL your belongings while the rest of us would only be able to grab 1-5% of our stuff!!
LOL!!!!!!!!
Well in a disaster we don’t have an hour and a half to pack! 🙂 Still, we could pack quite quickly and get out of there very fast. We were taking our time with the hour and a half…