Condo

I am going to look at a condo today. If I like it I will be putting in an offer to buy it.

This is the floor plan of the unit I will be looking at. I am curious as to why if Canada uses the metric system the units of measurement are in square feet. Because they did nothing but confuse me (I am not mathematically inclined enough to convert even roughly in my head). Then I realized something: Canada didn't officially adopt the metric system until sometime in the early 1980s. And since the target age for those being sold units in this building would have been educated before that, I suppose they are sticking with something familiar. Yes...it's a retirement condo independent living thing building I am looking at :( Something that depresses the hell out of me but it has lots of things that would make my life easier and even take some of the burden off my family, both things that I want. I realize I sound ageist here and I don't mean to. It's just not the kind of a place I pictured myself living at 28. And the fact that everybody else is 30+ years or more older than me isn't even the thing that bothers me the most. It's a very very nice building. It's marketed as something silly as "enjoy your golden years in the luxury you deserve." And while I am all for having a nice place to live, I am just having a hard time picturing myself living here.

But I am tired of renting. And my initial plans to build a house west of Calgary are not really feasible given care giving needs and the hassle of finding enough coverage living right in the city. Moving somewhere that would require a drive out of the city would likely shrink my pool of paid care givers even smaller than it is now. So we will see how it goes with the condo. Apparently they will sell to me due to having a disability but since I am not 55 or older I have to get special permission and go before some board. Something that also makes me feel pretty shitty. Even to arrange a viewing took some special arranging. Sigh.

But still, it would be a very good thing for me to have a place that is my own.