Real Estate and the Impending Doom

A week from today my lease in Lexington is up. While I am quite excited about moving to St. Marys, there is a slight hitch. I don't actually know where I'll be going when I move. I had an apartment all lined up (granted, an ugly apartment), which was then given to someone who would sign a longer lease. As a small town, it is not the kind of place where one can just find another apartment complex, rather one has to go through calling every landlord in town, numbers passed on by word of mouth. This whole process frustrates me, leaving me wondering what the hell I'm supposed to do with a whole apartment full of furniture. When your options are an apartment with no appliances or more days of frustrating looking, do you just settle?

Instead of focusing on my growing moving angst, I've spent the last several hours looking at condos for sale in Boston. I have actually found the condo of my dreams and it's in Dorchester.It's so shiny and open and available. I know that I have no hope of owning such things with moving about for the next year and a half, then going into massive debt with grad school, but, still, I'm lusting after the financial equity and stability of owning a small piece of property. One day this loft will be mine, but until then, I would just settle for a cheap apartment in Elk County.