Showing my roots
Jan. 3rd, 2009 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randy_byersLast night I realized that this month is the 25th anniversary of my move to Seattle and into this house. I moved here in January 1984. I can't remember what the date was, but it was pretty soon after New Year's, maybe the 4th.
I've lived in this house for over half my life, which I figured out this morning has been true for a year now. Bizarre. I moved a lot when I was in college, as you do, and when I graduated and moved up here I swore I'd never move again. So far, so good.
For the most part, it has been just me and Denys, who has lived here just over thirty years. When I first moved in, paul was still living here. After he moved out, Steve moved in briefly. By the time he moved out, the $320 rent we were paying didn't seem like too much for two people to handle. The only other person who has lived here since was Denys' foster son (if that's the right term), Daniel, who moved in for a couple of years after his mother died of cancer.
Denys and I are perhaps an odd couple, but we've obviously worked out pretty well as housemates. We bought the house sometime in the mid-'90s. I can't remember the year, but it was right when housing prices started to climb sharply in Seattle, thanks to the tech bubble. We were still paying $320 a month rent, because Norvin never raised it, but we knew that the window on affordability for us was closing. I have mixed feelings about home ownership, since I'm not much interested in maintenance or home improvement, but it does keep the rug from being pulled out from under us. Fremont is a great neighborhood, and I've always liked living here. When![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sneerpout visited in 2001, she said it looked like I belonged here.
Perhaps even more scary is that next month will be my 20th anniversary at the University. I started there in February 1989, still looking something like the icon on this post. I wrote about stasis in the '90s recently, but this longevity of home and workplace are more like stability, I think. Putting down roots. Well, at least Denys and I have been able to provide basement space to a variety of friends who needed temporary long-term storage.
I've lived in this house for over half my life, which I figured out this morning has been true for a year now. Bizarre. I moved a lot when I was in college, as you do, and when I graduated and moved up here I swore I'd never move again. So far, so good.
For the most part, it has been just me and Denys, who has lived here just over thirty years. When I first moved in, paul was still living here. After he moved out, Steve moved in briefly. By the time he moved out, the $320 rent we were paying didn't seem like too much for two people to handle. The only other person who has lived here since was Denys' foster son (if that's the right term), Daniel, who moved in for a couple of years after his mother died of cancer.
Denys and I are perhaps an odd couple, but we've obviously worked out pretty well as housemates. We bought the house sometime in the mid-'90s. I can't remember the year, but it was right when housing prices started to climb sharply in Seattle, thanks to the tech bubble. We were still paying $320 a month rent, because Norvin never raised it, but we knew that the window on affordability for us was closing. I have mixed feelings about home ownership, since I'm not much interested in maintenance or home improvement, but it does keep the rug from being pulled out from under us. Fremont is a great neighborhood, and I've always liked living here. When
sneerpout visited in 2001, she said it looked like I belonged here.Perhaps even more scary is that next month will be my 20th anniversary at the University. I started there in February 1989, still looking something like the icon on this post. I wrote about stasis in the '90s recently, but this longevity of home and workplace are more like stability, I think. Putting down roots. Well, at least Denys and I have been able to provide basement space to a variety of friends who needed temporary long-term storage.
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