Apartment opening in nearby Porter Square (x-post)

[rigel.livejournal.com]

Cross-posted to many Boston and Camberville groups, as well as my personal LJ.

Singularity, our amazing Porter Square apartment, is looking for one more friendly, responsible, geeky housemate to fill out the apartment as of 9/1/2009! Do those terms fit you or someone you know? If so, please contact us!



The Apartment
As mentioned, Singularity is a gorgeous second floor apartment in the heart of Porter Square. We've lived here in some configuration or another for something like seven years now, and have an excellent relationship with the landlord. Presently, the rent in the rooms opening up ranges from high 600s to mid 700s a month.

More about the apartment . . .

• Location - The house is on a quiet tree-lined street off of Elm Street, the main thoroughfare between Porter and Davis Square. The walk from here to Porter is a bit over five minutes.
• Space and Amenities - We have a nice-sized living room and dining room, a big kitchen with modern amenities including a fairly new stove and a dishwasher, and a free washer and dryer in the basement. We also have two porches in good repair that have served us well in social situations.
• Furnishings - Most of the common rooms will be pre-furnished with our things, but we'd love additions to the place! Come see; it's pretty swank.
• Landlord - The landlord only owns this property. He's kind, respectful, attentive, timely and cares a lot about his tenants; he's offered us a lower rent (the price listed is the lower price) than he would offer to new people, and he's had us over for dinner a few times in the seven years we've lived here.
• Geekery - The apartment would come with everything we own, including a full entertainment system (with Playstation III, XBox 360 with Rock Band 2, and Wii), a laser printer and tons of board / card games, and wired and wireless Internet options.
• Misc. - No pets. No smoking, even on the porches; you'll be asked to do it on the curb.

The Tenants
We're all young professionals (a coder, and an admin for a video game company) or graduate students (in library science). We all enjoy the arts (acting, writing), cooking, recreational gaming (board / card games and so on) and general puttering around on the Internet. We also have individual interests: Beobai likes cooking, rigel is (temporarily) part of a work a capella group, and so on.


You!
We're looking for someone who . . .

• Pays rent and other bills on time, and takes responsibility for managing the cost breakdown of one utility in the house.
• Keeps the apartment clean. We're not obsessive about it, but we like to think of our place as a home as much as possible, and that includes keeping it tidy. Feel free to check our posted chores list for more information.
• Is open-minded! There's a reasonable amount of bi/gay and/or poly within our housemate set, and we prefer to live with people who are comfortable with that.
• Is communicative. We try to address any house concerns in a forthright, tactful manner that respects everyone's perspectives, and we expect the same behavior from our housemates.
• Preferably, is geeky and somewhat social. If you prefer to keep to yourself or aren't into what we're into, that's totally fine. But we welcome those who indulge in our hobbies and would enjoy our occasional get-togethers.

So, that's us. If this sounds like your cup of tea, please feel free to reply to us here or ask us for an e-mail address at which to contact us. Thanks for reading, and we look forward to hearing from you!

Comments

Yay for censorship!

[turil.livejournal.com]

That's what makes this country so great!

Re: Yay for censorship!

[contradictacat.livejournal.com]

ron_newman did not threaten to censor you or delete your comments, though he could have if he so wished. What he asked was that you refrain from passing personal, off-topic judgements on the person who posted.

I would like to request that you do so as well. This is not the appropriate forum to be insulting other people in. Please refrain.

Why?

[turil.livejournal.com]

Why is this not a place that welcomes freedom of speech? Why don't you want to be openminded about what others have to say? Why don't you want to understand the diverse range of opinions and perspectives that all people who have an interest in Davis Square have? Why not allow everyone who has something they feel is important to say about a posted topic to express themselves?

I mean, I went out of my way to point out the hypocrisy of her request for openminded (non-jedgemental) people, when she was clearly not very openminded (judgemental) herself. Don't you think she deserves to have the opportunity to learn about herself? Or would you rather her be unaware of her mixed messages that she's putting out there?

Re: Why?

[rigel.livejournal.com]

If you would like to teach me something about myself, you are more than welcome to message me directly. I would still prefer to keep the discussion off of this thread.

I'm here to look for a housemate, not to have a personal/political discussion.

Thanks!

Um, if you want to have a personal discussion with me, then why post here?

[turil.livejournal.com]

The point of the Davis Square community is that it's a community for discussion. Maybe what you're looking for is something else, say an announcement board? Where people will only respond via email? That way you don't have to deal with everyone's diverse range of opinions, which it sounds like isn't working so well for you.

Re: Um, if you want to have a personal discussion with me, then why post here?

[rigel.livejournal.com]

To be honest, based on your presentation, I don't particularly have much invested in a personal discussion with you. I offered it because you seem invested in turning this into a personal discussion about me or my co-tenants, and I'm trying to keep the personal discussion where it ought to be, in a personal medium.

But you're right about one thing. For this post in particular, I'm not looking for general discussion outside of whether people are interested in the apartment. That's why it's a post seeking a housemate rather than a post soliciting discussion on whether or not people disinterested in living with children (or are poly, or whatever else seems to be going on here for you) have misplaced priorities are only interested in open-mindedness as it pertains to availability and frequency of sex. If it were the latter, I'd be more than happy to continue this here.

That said, I'm happy to respond to a range of opinions. I'd just prefer not to clutter up the comments for those who might be looking for additional information about the apartment itself in the post.

Re: Why?

[nomadmwe.livejournal.com]

Why is this not a place that welcomes freedom of speech?

Oh, please. Don't start in with that wankery. You've neither been censored, booted from the community, nor your comments deleted. You've been asked to show some courtesy. Exercising your free speech doesn't give you immunity from being called on the crap you say.

I mean, I went out of my way to point out the hypocrisy of her request for openminded (non-jedgemental) people, when she was clearly not very openminded (judgemental) herself.

You're totally right. One's living preferences are complete indicators of how openminded they are. I don't want to live with a dog. I must be a closeminded dog-hating bigoted manbeast, by your attempt at logic. Well played!

Don't you think she deserves to have the opportunity to learn about herself?

Yeah, you're a giver. I see it now.

I realize my communication techniques are far from ideal.

[turil.livejournal.com]

And I appreciate your freedom to share your opinions of me, even if I believe that they, too, are unpleasant and not at all courteous. I still believe that we all all better of when we are allowed to express our opinions, even if they are not all rainbows and unicorns.