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ysobelleI saw the loft today. The loft of my dreams. It's 1500sf of light-drenched space, with a wall of South-facing windows, a quirky, bowed hardwood floor, endless cathedral ceilings crossed by huge old beams, a washer-dryer hookup, an enormous bathroom, a kitchen twice the size of mine, and a glorious exposed-brick wall to frame views of Philadelphia from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge all the way across the entire city skyline. It's got remote-controlled access to the parking lot. It's got a dog run.
It's also at 5th and Cecil B. Moore.
Sigh. I took Mom with me, and while we both fell in love with the unit-- the penultimate of the six or so we saw-- we were both freaked out slightly by the no-man's-land of the neighbourhood: vacant lots, burned-out buildings, all that. I was told it's Northern Liberties, but it's not-- it's just plain North Philly, and it's NOT a safe place at ALL. I could probably grit my teeth and do it, but my Dad said, "I'd worry about you every night."
"I have a dog!"
"I'd worry about the dog, too!"
I want a loft now, though. I want one badly. Perhaps outside the city, to the West, if I could. But where? Or maybe a house, with a yard for Clue. Again, though-- where? Sigh.
It's also at 5th and Cecil B. Moore.
Sigh. I took Mom with me, and while we both fell in love with the unit-- the penultimate of the six or so we saw-- we were both freaked out slightly by the no-man's-land of the neighbourhood: vacant lots, burned-out buildings, all that. I was told it's Northern Liberties, but it's not-- it's just plain North Philly, and it's NOT a safe place at ALL. I could probably grit my teeth and do it, but my Dad said, "I'd worry about you every night."
"I have a dog!"
"I'd worry about the dog, too!"
I want a loft now, though. I want one badly. Perhaps outside the city, to the West, if I could. But where? Or maybe a house, with a yard for Clue. Again, though-- where? Sigh.
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Date: 2007-02-21 02:31 pm (UTC)Think about the Meat packing district, how insane are the rents now? But how long ago was it that no one wanted to live there?
Yes I would worry about you and the doggy face. However, it dose give you a good amount ot amazing sounding space. It gives you your secion of the world. It aslo gives your friends pleanty of parking if the have trailers.
I would not dismis it right out, check out the neighboor hood, might not be as bad as you think. Remember crime more often than not goes to the nicer neighboorhoods.
If you are also running the biz out of your home you may have some bennifits for encomoic development... look in to it. Also if you do move try to lock in rent for x amount of time, lest the real esate takes off there, and your having to fight off SUV driving, starbuck's drinking, horrid drivers from NY
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Date: 2007-02-22 07:15 am (UTC)