August 6, 2008

Considering a Move...Again

Today I looked at some apartments that are just being finished up in the city of Juazeiro. To be more specific, I looked at an apartment on the 18th floor of this building:

There are pros and cons for a move for the Comings family right now.

Pros:

Privacy.
*An apartment that was actually designed for family living.
*Proximity to just about everything (work, church, school, shopping).
*Because of previous reason, more involvement in our local church.
*Beautiful view.
*Pool that we don't have to take care of.
*Relatively low rent.
*The apartment we would rent is owned by the seminary, so by renting it we would be helping the school's budget. Win-win!
*We would not have to absent ourselves twice a year for the super-secret, mysterious, unspeakable CCC and JCC events (this is a long story...but suffice it to say that this has been a major inconvenience for us this year).
*Covered parking.
*Did I mention privacy?

Cons:

*Smaller place.
*We would have to buy a couple pieces of furniture.
*Contact with seminary students would be limited to business hours, weekend trips to practical ministries, and special seminary events.

Below is a floorplan of the apartment, with helpful annotations by me.

Right now I am leaning toward making a move. There are more details that need to be ironed out. We need more wisdom than we have on this.

Update:

I think we have discounted this option for now. I took Itacyara back and we had a closer look. While there are many nice features, there are some things that make the apartment decidedly not suited to us. Please continue to pray with us as we look for God's will regarding a place to live.

Posted by Andrew on August 6, 2008 4:07 PM.

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