ian_smith ([info]ian_smith) wrote,
@ 2008-04-16 21:57:00
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Current mood: tired

I got a carload of stuff down to Ashford where I am planning to get everything located so on moving day I just have to make one stop with the truck.

Books are heavy. Going to offload a bunch more paperbacks tomorrow at Pandemonium, a used bookstore in Cambridge. They only give store credit but I'm sure I can find someone who would buy the credit off me for 80 cents to the dollar or something like that.

Not a lot else accomplished. I need to fill out my lease application and send them a check. I keep thinking I should wait and find something better, but it seems to be an above average deal so I should just go for it.

I admit to being a little nervous about moving to Berkeley due to the high property theft rate. It's double the national average, and I *like* my stuff. I'd be pretty pissed if any of it got stolen. I will make sure to keep off-site backups of my computer for starters. Working for decades as a Sysadmin makes on security paranoid.

And another idea occurred to me.. sell my car and fly to Berkeley, and buy a car there eventually. I don't NEED one being work will be close enough to walk, let alone do a 5 minute bike trip. But cars are darn useful, and selling mien will mean taking a financial loss. But the idea of not having to spend 5 days in a car with my cats is appealing.

Choices, choices... better to have too many than too few I suppose.




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[info]skywaterblue
2008-04-17 03:43 am UTC (link)
For what it's worth, I never had anything stolen from /inside/ my places in the Bay Area. I'm gonna take a guess and say that part of the high property theft listing is because it's the #1 place in the world to get your bike ripped off. And if they can't take the whole thing, they'll strip it for parts, like bike piranhas.

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[info]ian_smith
2008-04-18 04:08 pm UTC (link)
Good point.. I bet bicycles make up a good percentage of the thefts. I guess it depend son that they consider burglaries.

Still... 1 in 50 houses had burglaries. Thats not a comforting statistic. :-)

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