# What was you first apartment (or whatever it was) like?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 27, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-you-first-apartment-or-whatever-it-was-like/913309 "2020-06-27T00:57:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-you-first-apartment-or-whatever-it-was-like/913309/41 "2020-06-29T16:17:23Z")

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> [@Voyager](#):
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> The only negative was that there was only one thermostat in the house, in another apartment.

That reminded me of another thing about my old apartment. My unit was, apparently, the only one with access to the building’s attic. I learned about this one January morning when the maintenance people had to wake me (as a student a kept a later schedule than most) up so they could get up there to fix my next door neighbor’s heat.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-you-first-apartment-or-whatever-it-was-like/913309/42 "2020-06-29T17:11:50Z")

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> [@SanVito](#):
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> My first home was a house - not unusual in the UK, where apartments were something of a rarity (it was the early 90s) and [Victorian terraces](https://www.google.com/search?q=victorian+terrace+reading&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjKuMX_iafqAhUY5hoKHeLTD1kQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=victorian+terrace+reading&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoCCAA6BAgAEENQritYtTZg6jdoAHAAeACAATuIAYcDkgEBOJgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1n&sclient=img&ei=nuX5XsrxDJjMa-Knv8gF&bih=1199&biw=1957&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB869GB869) were plentiful. It was my student home, shared with three other girls - a Dutch girl, an Israeli and a half Czech/half Brit.
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> I doubt it had been decorated since the 70s. Still had a deep pile brown/orange swirly carpet, a lemon yellow bathroom suite (with no shower) and an orange formica kitchen (no dishwasher).

I lived with my mom in a place like that in the 90s – a ranch home in America but that had the same color scheme.

It did, however, have a dishwasher, which my mom refused to use because she enjoyed doing the dishes and supposedly saving money. She used it as an additional bookshelf which struck me as unwise if it should ever leak or turn itself on, but thankfully it never did.

The worst part about the color scheme was that we also had wasps that would come in occasionally, and perfectly blend in with the mixed brown and orange carpet when they landed.

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