A (half) house of our own

[metawidget]

Saturday, Ellie and I signed a lease for the front half of a little house in Hull. It has a front porch, a back yard, new windows and siding, and fresh paint and varnish. It's a quick walk to many buses, and a short bike ride (I'll tell you how short when I test it out) to work for me. The neighbourhood is like a cross between Ormstown and Verdun, and we're close to all the basic necessities.

It took us two days of apartment-hunting in Hull plus some research ahead of time. We move in in late June.

I am not surprisingly very happy.

Comments

[beeblefish.livejournal.com]

Ah.. I take it you got the job as an archivist then? And Congrasts!

[metawidget]

I start as a methodologist (planning and analyzing survey processes) at StatCan in September :)

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

fantastic!

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where in Hull? I'm in Manoir des Trembles...

[metawidget]

Near Frontenac and St. Jacques (west of the Museum of Civ, northeast of Terrasses de la Chaudiere). That puts me... a little east of you, right?

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

Yeah. I'm across Champlain Bridge... I used to be over there, but the landlord was a jerk. The newer is much cooler ;-)

[metawidget]

I should also credit your apartment-hunting strategy from a comment a while back — we wandered around Hull with a notebook and a phone card, and after a day and a half, it worked.

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I got it from a book that explain the "maudit Francais" how to look for an appartment in Montréal.

Finding the current house however took at least a couple of month.... but since it was not to rent, it is understandable.

[callmepavlov.livejournal.com]

Congrats :) Sounds like a nice neighborhood.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! ^_^