“Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
Our family has decided to relocate to the city where I attend graduate school. On the whole this is a huge plus because I've just cut out 180 miles of driving (at a minimum) a week from my life. That's a huge carbon emissions reduction right there. We're a mile and a half away from school, which is definitely a good biking distance for losing weight and getting in shape again. Overall, I'm very happy with this move.
In the process of looking for a new apartment or home to rent, we realized just how fortunate we are to have lived in this little cottage of roughly 500 square feet we're leaving behind. We were quite happy to live in a single bedroom apartment, but very few landlords with single bedroom apartments would rent for a variety of reasons including septic systems, insurance reasons, or in the case of the apartment complex we settled with corporate policy. While we only ended up increasing our living unit size about 150 square feet, it still feels like we're moving in the wrong direction to me.
