There's a relationship virus going around or something. Geez, Meat, you're the fifth person I know this week to go through that. (Not that I know you well, but hell, we sat next to each other during the game until angry old dude snapped to security about karn).

I'm so, so sorry you're going through this. I echo what phdave said. One of my friends had his wife leave after she had him pay for both gastric bypass and breast implants. He reacted by getting right back into a relationship with someone else, and that ended horribly (also to note that girlfriend looked suspiciously like ex-wife, but that's neither here nor there).

Hang in there. Have you considered the Lehigh Valley? Close to Philly, relatively close to your home, at least you could find some college girls in Bethlehem.

Sometimes I have a strong urge to move to the middle of nowhere, like Wyoming or Montana or something. SK, how's North Dakota treating you?

You guys rock.

Thinking of heading up to the city today to do a little recon. Gonna try Bella Vista, Queen Village (and south of Washington) for now, but I appreciate all the suggestions, and will check them out in due time.

This is all going way too well so far. We get along, talking frankly about finances and logistics. The emotions are in check for the most part. However, the Bill James and MattS part of me knows there will be a regression to the mean, and it's bound to get worse. I just hope by then I've found a steady stream of 19 year-old bj artists (or failing that, a really cool PS3 game) to distract me*.

*I know it's stupid to jump right into a relationship, but Wiz made it clear that fellationships are acceptable.

check out grad hospital too

oh and also: when i worked at ______, our biggest customer was philadelphia management. it seemed they owned a billionty apartment buildings in all the nicer parts of the city. they in fact do. here's their site

thanks! I'll check it out

1br above Campo's on 2nd and Market - $975. Washer/Dryer in unit. Thoughts?

I've always been torn about the song "Brick" by the Ben Folds Five. On the one hand, the song is beautiful. On the other hand, given the subject matter, I've always found something about the attitude of the song to be fundamentally selfish, almost repugnantly so.

I'm not a big fan of the scene there, and it's probably noisy as hell

yeah, that would be brutally loud on weekends/everyday

although it could have the spiderweb effect you're looking for

meatball wrote:1br above Campo's on 2nd and Market - $975. Washer/Dryer in unit. Thoughts?

not bad- walking distance to most everything

Good point about the noise...

I also wish I could just ditch my car. Stupid job.

you should be good around bella vista/grad ho with a car. I used to drive every day and never had a problem finding a spot when I got back

mozartpc27 wrote:I've always been torn about the song "Brick" by the Ben Folds Five. On the one hand, the song is beautiful. On the other hand, given the subject matter, I've always found something about the attitude of the song to be fundamentally selfish, almost repugnantly so.

I think you just described Ben Folds' entire point in making it

The Dude wrote:you should be good around bella vista/grad ho with a car. I used to drive every day and never had a problem finding a spot when I got back

good call. going to check out a 1br newly renovated at 7th and Bainbridge on thursday -- $795

great neighborhood that is

awesome, cool neighborhood. i used to live right near there. New Wave Cafe is a good bar and close by

Woody wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:I've always been torn about the song "Brick" by the Ben Folds Five. On the one hand, the song is beautiful. On the other hand, given the subject matter, I've always found something about the attitude of the song to be fundamentally selfish, almost repugnantly so.

I think you just described Ben Folds' entire point in making it

Really? I've heard him talk about the song and I've never gotten the vibe that he thinks it's about trying to show what an a-hole he was. He usually talks about how it was a "difficult time" and such, but I don't see a lot of self-criticism there. More like, "Woe is me."

But maybe I'm wrong.

Yeah I live right by New Wave and it's pretty quiet and car-friendly