Apartment Living – an Attractive Choice for Busy Professionals
Posted on November 11, 2007
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When your days are packed with meetings, appointments, after-work exercise and catching up with friends, the last thing you want to fuss about at the end of a long day is your living quarters.
With time being such a valuable commodity, apartment living frees up your time to spend it how you really want.
Here are some reasons behind why more and more professionals are opting for the low maintenance lifestyle of apartment living.
1. Safety In Numbers
When you lead a busy schedule, the last thing you want to worry about is security back home. Choosing to live in an apartment, rather than a stand-alone house, offers the age-old adage of safety in numbers. Most apartments have security guards, which discourages opportunities for crime. With 24-hour emergency service and an on-site building manager, you can feel secure in knowing you are protected at all times.
Apartments are built with residents’ safety in mind. Fire safety plans, emergency stairwells and exits, smoke alarms in every apartment and fireproof concrete floors and walls minimize of a widespread apartment fire. As well, the building’s fire panels are monitored 24/7, and should the alarm be activated, the fire department will be there within minutes – giving you total peace of mind when it comes to your safety and security.
2. Convenience at Your Fingertips
Apartments offer you the convenience of having many amenities right on site. In addition to laundry facilities and plentiful storage space, some apartments also have pools, saunas and convenience stores – great for people who prefer to buy food as needed, rather than shopping in bulk to stock up on weekly items.
All of these on-site conveniences enable you to better manage your time because you aren’t required to go out of your way to get what you need.
Apartments are usually situated near bus routes, allowing you easy mobility and quick access around town. Because location is a huge factor when considering which apartment to rent, most apartments are established near grocery stores, cafes and pubs to make life more pleasant for the tenants.
3. Enhanced Social Opportunities
Apartments are excellent for people who value self-reliance, but don’t want to live entirely in isolation. Many apartments contain communal areas such as exercise rooms, recreation rooms, or even party rooms that can be rented out – all of which offer excellent opportunities to meet and mingle with other tenants.
Apartments are very accommodating of guests – most apartments have a visitors’ parking area and some even offer guest rooms.
4. Kinder on the Wallet
Smaller in size than a house, apartment electricity and hydro bills are usually much cheaper, particularly if you share your apartment and can divide the bills among others.
Apartments are usually rented on a term contract, with a minimum rent period. This living arrangement suits professionals who change jobs often, or work in different areas of town, and want the freedom to change apartments to move closer to work accordingly.
All maintenance work is paid out of the property manager’s pocket, not your own. With no long-term overheads, this leaves you financially free to save your money for travel, hobbies or even higher education if you intend to return to studying.
5. The Good Life
When you live in an apartment, you are not required to look after lawns and gardens. Nor do you have to fix any problems with leaky faucets, flooded toilets, dents in walls or peeling paint. Plus, most apartments have 24-hour emergency maintenance service, so if something goes wrong, there’s no need to spend valuable time sifting through the Yellow Pages searching for the right type of repair company. This frees up you up to focus on your professional or social life.
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What's a good type of dog for Apartment living with an active lifestyle?Hey I was just wondering what would be a good breed for apartment living as I am moving into an apartment next month and was planning to adopt a dog if possible from a shelter. I have owned dogs before, but all of them were large dogs, Husky and Rottweiler.
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That’s nice
I remember the first time I went to O’Hare. I had just lost my Brazilian passport (in New York, early 2003), and had a military ID (issued in Rio de Janeiro), and the guy who was checking IDs asked if I had a passport. I was freaking out… Lol. Then his supervisor said it was OK for me to travel with my military ID. Ironically, I just lost my passport again… last night. I don’t remember putting my cell phone number on it, thus I don’t think I’ll recover it, sadly ;-(
NEW YUCK CITY!
I used Wikipedia as data source for the GDP comparison between LA and Chicago. LA has a 179 billion dollars higher GDP than Chicago. It may change within a year, but not so likely. I used to travel to Chicago a lot, for business, pleasure and… well… I was in and out of love with someone there… lol… 7 years ago. I thought it was yesterday… lol.
What do you do in Chicago? What kind of work? Involved with performing arts somehow?
CHI-TOWN sure sounds better than the BIG ROTTEN APPLE.
ha ha im betting u probably aint got no job or may be got one & not makin shit & still gotta live with mommy & daddy in NY. lol!
Lol…
i think we’re actually wealthier than LA right now cause LA’s unemployment rate is higher than Chicago’s & they dont have federal reserves & futures stock exchanges like we do. hollywood can only do so much for LA but right now not enough.
It’s funny we don’t think much about it, Chicago is actually the 4th wealthiest city in the world, after:
1. Tokyo (nobody talks about it, because the Japanese are lame bitches… lol;
2. New York (among the only 2 cities worldwide with a GDP surpassing 1,1 trillion dollars, not so distant from Tokyo numberwise);
3. Los Angeles;
4. Chicago.
3. Los Angeles: 639 billion dollars;
4. Chicago: 460 billion dollars.
According with whatever data info, I found it on Wikipedia, Chicago and Paris have the same GDP. I’m sure it can’t be the same exact number, so Paris comes out as 5th largest economy among cities worldwide.