Talked to one of the managers of the current complex yesterday, to give him a heads up, though we haven’t given official notice yet.
He wanted to know why we’re moving. We’ve got a 2 bedroom 2 bath available, he says.
It’s not really about the bathrooms, though it will be nice. I, at least, have shared one bathroom with others for all of my life.
It’s about space. I don’t think the current complex could offer us much more space, even if there was a second bathroom. That, and the shopping cart guy…. well, he wouldn’t live next to me anymore, I suppose. The upside to that would’ve been that we wouldn’t have to rent a truck. But that’s the only upside.

Another misgiving, I suppose, is that the original destination was the hip part of town. But unless we rent a house, I don’t see getting enough space to make it worthwhile. There are a lot of apartment buildings in that end of town, but they’re older, and don’t look like they’d have tons of space.
That, and there’s always the foothills and mountains on the northeast side of town. When they can be seen at all.

I think another big plus of the complex we’re considering is there are no gates.
Somehow, gates can be disturbing. For instance, at our apartment, we see people circumvent the gates all the time, in a part of town where you’d actually like to see them keep people out.
But seeing gates in the nice part of town really said we want poor people to stay out. We want people who don’t belong on this part of town to stay out.
The complex we’re considering is probably too old for gates, and isn’t laid out like that, anyway. It’s more like a bank of buildings set across a couple of different streets. I don’t think there’d be a good way to gate it.