04 Aug It’s Official, NYC Here I come!

45^th between 8^th and 9^th.

That will be my neighbourhood in a month when I move to New York City!

Yesterday afternoon, myself and my future roommate Deana, signed our lease for our apartment!

It was a lot more complicated to find an apartment than we expected as we discovered on our NYC trip last month. We learned that American apartment buildings were less than kind when it came to renting to foreigners (foreigners? We’re just Canadians!) We kept getting turned down by buildings since we didn’t have American credit lines or American guarantors. It didn’t matter that we had the money and had proof of it; it was simply because they preferred citizens. We ended up finding an amazing apartment in a building that we loved but the place was given to another (single) renter instead of us because, again, that renter was a citizen. We left NYC last month without a place.

Lucky for us, Deana’s mom wouldn’t let that place go. For the month following, she called the building and the building manager over and over and begged and pleaded for a place. The one we had liked was gone, but to our amazement, they had one other one left! As soon as we arrived in NYC this time we went straight there to see it.

Then we signed.

I officially have an address in New York City.

I can’t even tell you how amazing this apartment is! It was left in shambles by the last tenant so a lot of the place is being redone. When we move in a few weeks from now, we are going to have an entirely new kitchen with new stainless steel appliances and cherrywood cabinets!  Not only is the apartment going to look great, but it’s also in an amazingggg location. We’re only a few blocks from Times Square and surrounded by tons of restaurants and grocery stores, shopping centers, yoga studios and we have a dance studio next door! The best part of this place? Daniel Radcliffe is basically our next door neighbour since his Broadway show is 5 steps from our front door! Hey Dan, wanna come over for dinner?

We really couldn’t have asked for a better place.

It’s now starting to sink in that I really am moving to NYC. I am officially moving to another country to embark on a huge journey that will change my life forever. I’m going to be leaving a lot of things behind, but I know that it will be one of the best experiences I will ever have.

I can’t wait!

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Side note: Any ostomates know where I can order ostomies supplies from in that area? :]