OT: Good Place to Live? - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Nov 10, 2004

OT: Good Place to Live?

Date: Nov 10, 2004

Are you looking for an apt. or house? If it's a house you're looking for, the Avenues (S. 10th-S. 21st or so) were always a good place to find a decent sized bungalow-type house when I was living there (last lived there in Oct. 03). I paid $600/month for a 3 BD, 2 full BA house in the Avenues back then (don't even want to tell you what that same kind of house now costs me here in Music City USA!). I don't know the apt. scene in H'burg that well.

Anyone else able to help?

Date: Nov 11, 2004

There are more apartments coming available since the national guard is shipping out to California this month. Keep checking the paper, rental bulletins, etc. and something within the range of what you are looking for should be coming available.

Date: Nov 11, 2004

Renter:

With Angie Dvorak taking a major pay cut with the ADP, it just may be possible to cut a sweetheart deal to sublease the servant's quarters at the Thames estate. I understand they're relatively posh, and lord knows she could use the extra cash now. Let me know if you're interested.

Leasing Agent

Date: Nov 11, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Shelboo's Leasing Agent
"Renter:
With Angie Dvorak taking a major pay cut with the ADP, it just may be possible to cut a sweetheart deal to sublease the servant's quarters at the Thames estate. I understand they're relatively posh, and lord knows she could use the extra cash now. Let me know if you're interested.
Leasing Agent"

Or better yet, guick, get out while you can--before you're knee deep in house payments.

Date: Nov 13, 2004

A good place to live? Quaint, charming? How about someplace near the headwaters of the Mississippi? The winters are cold up in northern Wisconsin, but probably there are not many giant loud trucks on Wisc. Hwy. 77, and your chances of running into Shelby or Angie up there are slim indeed. Oh, but it's not near campus, at least USM's campus...

Seriously, I wish you the best in your quest, and I'm sorry I can't offer you any genuinely helpful advice, but during half a decade in Hattiesburg I didn't see anything like what you seem to be looking for. I also had trouble finding lots of other things I might have enjoyed that seem to be quite commonplace in other cities, even smaller ones than Hattiesburg. (Shopping for groceries at WalMart just didn't do it for me -- do I have a problem?)

I'm with Dear Abby, who wrote
"Or better yet, guick, get out while you can--"

I'm glad I left! I should have left sooner.

Date: Nov 13, 2004

My old pal Gonzo lived in a motor home that he won in a card game. You might not be a gambling type, but Paw Paw or Davis Camper City can probably fix you up with a low mileage used one. You can park it pretty much where ever you want & the day you've had a belly full at USM, you can fire it up & go someplace else. If some truckdriver bothers you, you can drive over to his house, park next door & fire up the generator all night long.

If you pay Eagle Club dues, they might let you park it on campus right next to the building where you work. That would be cheaper than rent & you'd look like a real "Southern Miss" athletic supporter.

Date: Nov 13, 2004

A notice for a refurbished apartment which sounded quaint was posted on the ELI bulletin board on Friday. It looked interesting and cheap.

Date: Nov 28, 2004

Thanks everyone for your input. I've checked into many of your suggestions and am on the hunt.

I was wondering if anyone knows what's up with the "Cherokee Court" condominiums down on Arlington Loop. I think that area is a perfect location -- but nothing's available. The sign says something about "smart growth," which I approve of, but there's been nothing happening for months. I'll call the number on the sign, just curious if any board members have info. Thanks.

Date: Nov 28, 2004

Good Place to Live?

Date: Nov 28, 2004

RE: OT: Good Place to Live?

Date: Nov 28, 2004

Geez, what're they thinking? 125-200? Might as well get a lake and some kind of yard for that kind of money.

Not sure what the developers around here are smoking. Surely there's a market for all of us single faculty that don't care for a ranch style or a fixer upper and wouldn't mind a sense of community to boot.

Sigh. But thanks.