Life in 2D/3D

Over the last week, we have seriously started to look for a house. We've been to the bank to beg them for money and worked out what we can afford. Then we headed for the Real Estate Agents (or realestagents as they should be called) to see what they had for us.
They pretty much managed to shatter my dreams of owning a 6 bedroom mansion with an indoor pool and an aeroplane hangar.In fact they obliterated that dream by telling us that the sort of place we could afford probably needed quite a bit of renovating - mostly with a bulldozer.

After looking through a place that was slightly above our budget and discovering that it bore a creepy sort of resemblance to a badly arranged sardine can, we began to worry that maybe we couldn't afford a house, especially not in the area that we would like to live. We had looked online at the sorts of areas that we could afford, and it was odd to find that the realestagents didn't have anything in our price range. We thought maybe they were trying to rip us off because we are so young and innocent :P

As it turns out, we were just at the wrong realestagent office. Who would think that there would be more than one branch of a realestagent office in one area? It's crazy if you ask me, and confusing. They should just have one big office that covers the entire area. The entire state, maybe. At least that way you know you're not missing out on anything.

My neighbours are seriously sending me nuts. There's a kid who lives about 2 houses away and he's just turned 18. He got his license last week and now he spends every night sitting in his car outside his house playing with the subwoofer he had installed into his tiny little car. It is so loud that i can't even hear my TV over it. If it wasn't every night, i could live with it. If he was just setting it up to sound good while he was driving i could live with it. But the fact that he is just doing it because he is an idiot really bothers me. I mean idiot in the nicest sense of the word, of course.

Soon i will be buying a house and moving to another suburb, so it will be less annoying. At the volume he has it now, i will probably still be able to hear it in another suburb, but at least i might be able to turn up my TV to drown it out.

House hunting is going slowly. I thought we would have already been to the bank to talk $$ and be picking out a house by now, but it seems like we always run out of time to get it done. I think maybe it's a little bit of being too busy mixed with a little bit of being very nervous. It's a big deal for someone like me. I have never spent more than $1000 in one go in my life. Splurging out and spending $250,000 is a big step for me. Still, i would gladly pay that to get away from my crazy neighbours.