The The A little over a year ago I was living in an apartment trying to save money. It was a small one bedroom apartment and the rent was somewhat manageable.

At the time I wasn't dating and I surely wasn't looking to date.

I was happy going to my 9 to 5 job and then coming home to relax with some video games.

The apartment building itself was all right.

It was nothing to write home about.

Everything on the inside worked and for the most part the tenants were quiet and kept

to themselves. The one downfall for me was the view from my balcony. I don't know if this is an

unpopular opinion but I wanted the third floor apartment so I could sit outside and read or just simply taking the fresh air.

So the fact that I had another apartment building in my direct line of sight was kind of a buzzkill for me. I ended up

making peace with it after a while and learn how to ignore it. It's strange how the separation

of a building makes a huge difference.

For example, my apartment building was just a little nicer and had very little of

any type of crime.

The apartment building behind me always seemed to have a police car outside. The area itself spanned multiple blocks

and I think six or seven different apartment buildings. When I say buildings, I mean different

apartments altogether, like each block of apartments was a different leasing

company. The first few were really nice and the more you progress through the blocks of apartments

the less nice they became. I was in the last building before they started to go downhill, but like I said, I got

used to my view and every once in a while I would get to see a show better than you could watch

on cops. At some point during the lease of my apartment I had come home from a hard

day's work and just wanted to sit outside and relax. It was one of those beautiful nights

in the early summer and I didn't want to go outside. I grabbed my laptop

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