I will miss a couple things about this place I’m in now.
You know what I won’t miss? Their damn coughing. Almost everybody here coughs incessantly, day and night every day. I’ve never lived in a group home or hospital with so many people who coughed so much. Some of them have legitimate smokers coughs. At the least it’s annoying. At the most it is to goad me into getting mad. It’s part a power thing.
Most of these people were cool to me at one time or another. Some people treat me with a little respect. And even the women here seemed to like me. But after every great conversation or exchange of pleasantries, 5 minutes later they are bugging me or literally trying to intimidate me. I just have to tough it out for three weeks and then all this will be just a bad memory.
I’m getting an apartment though the mental health clinic I go to. It will be independent living but if problems come up they are there to help us. I don’t know everything about it but if we (the other guy living there) don’t have problems they will let us alone. If a physical problem happens like a pipe bursts, or the electricity goes out or if a faucet leaks we notify a case manager, not the landlord.
Rent is ridiculously cheap for the area the apartment is in . The rent will be $500 a month. I live in Silicon Valley in California. I’ve looked for my own housing over the last twenty years because I’ve moved around and I know that just to rent a room in someones house presently you will be paying a minimum of $750.a month. And that’s a steal but you will not get a nice room or any extras like your own bathroom or kitchen privileges. To get a decent room in this area you have to pay at least $900 a month.
