Living in an apartment

This is Montecito apartments here in Phoenix. 

Fox gave us 1 month's accommodation when we arrived in August of 1996. We had a modest one-bedroom unit just about a mile away from Fox Animation Studios. After a month I started to pay for my own bills and I found it hard for me to sign the checks and let go of my hard-earned dollars. Lol!

It was a pretty decent apartment. We had a pool to cool off during the summer. We didn't have a washer and dryer in our unit but there was a laundry room in the complex. 

I learned a lot about living in an apartment here in America. You will have neighbors with different personalities and attitudes. I had a Filipino friend and co-worker who lived across my unit. He was talking on his wireless phone just outside his door. My next-door neighbor went to him pointing her finger to his door and asked him to go inside his unit. He went inside then she left.

The same neighbor banged on our wall with a hammer at 12 midnight while we were sleeping. She did it for about 10 minutes. I should have filed a complaint to the admin office but decided not to.

Some neighbors are friendly and some people you could tell that they don't like you. 

These experiences made me miss my neighbors back home in the Philippines.

(The apartment used different names since we moved out due to a change in ownership)