More than 8 months since I arrived to the city and I feel like home. Well, okay…your mother is not here to cook your favorite food and a window blind is something that literally don’t exist in this country. But forgetting about our comfortable and easy life in our parents home, apartment life in New York City is the best living experience possible.
I still think I have the two best roommates one can imagine. Rosie, from Ireland, and Luke, American from Boston. Both of them are my same age range (25-27) so our biological, professional and personal conditions are pretty much similar. Each of us have different lives, jobs and friends, but our paths get intersected everyday and in some occasions we hang out together, have dinner, celebrate parties in the apartment (like a memorable hand-cuffed one) or we just talk and laugh around the oval table sharing our experiences.
Rosie is an art director, the craziest and funniest person I’ve ever met in my entire life. Luke is a filmmaker, crazily ingenious and super friendly. And I’m an architect (also doing a little bit of noise with music) so I live surrounded of creative minds that inspire me everyday. I consider myself very lucky and thankful in this (some times, not always) hard city!
Living in New York not only means working hard, going to incredible events and living unique experiences. A great percentage of New York life is apartment life. Sometimes is because a blizzard, a storm or a suffocating hot in the street. Other times is because you just want to have time quietly for yourself in a private space. So cleaning, doing laundry, cooking (I haven’t ever cooked so many Spanish omelettes by my own), reading, watching a movie, writing posts in Architect-US blog, etc. are daily activities we all have to deal with.
Apartment can be the space for your hobbies too, but maybe your neighbors aren’t happy about that. For example, I play and practice piano and saxophone in my room, I live in a cool loft within a reconverted former textile factory but partitions between apartments are not the best quality. So your neighbors can listen, hear and smell whatever happens in your room. So you do from theirs.
Apartment life is ordinary and is beautiful.
