SF Weekly wrote that ‘being a single, straight woman in this city can be an exercise in frustration and humiliation.’
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I don’t know if truer words have ever been written.
(via “Craigslist Holiday Boyfriend Looks for Love in San Francisco”, which is about an ad that one of my coworkers replied to, half in jest. Witty Craigslist boys in SF keep making the news. See also.)
Be aware: we live in a two-story apartment that is decked out with wall-to-wall brown-hued carpet. It’s old and sometimes gross. At night, all of your 1970s shag fantasies can come true. By day, you have to make peace with the beast.
—I’ll leave you with one more. I hope to never read another CL housing ad again! Or at least for a very long time.
I really am very nice, and I do like to catch up with my roomate once in a while. I like the kind of situation where we feel ok asking about each others day. I also want to meet all your friends and make lamp out of their skin one by one and you will help me. I don’t do drugs. I do drink. I drink a lot of Champagne. I don’t know why.
—Keep reading… you’ll see it. I also looked at this apartment but decided the guy was a bit weird. I think I was right?
Prefer : Mature , respectful , person
—Misuse of commas or did they have a previous strange non-human roommate experience?
tagged: apartment hunt 2011 craigslist grammar
Nope, not a joke.
when a SF housing ad says…
- “GREAT VIEWS!!!” all that means is that the place is on top of a giant hill and walking up and down it would make you hate your life.
- “LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO understands they are only renting a room with low ceilings” = You would be living in what should be a storage space.
- They are looking for someone DRAMA FREE (with all-caps!), this person is surely full of “drama” themselves and/or crazy in a number of other ways.
- Anything in a reasonable price range will have the words “room share” or “children” hidden in the ad. NO no no no no.
I’m figuring it out—no shady phrasing will get by me!
…you are a Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio, Capricorn, born in the year of the Dragon, Ox or Monkey (We are serious about our Astrology matching for a housemate!)
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THIS is what I’m dealing with. This is what finding an apartment in SF is like.
I am none of these things and probably doomed to be subletting forever. ㅠ ㅠ
