We have an address!
Jen, her mom Judith, and my boy Joey have found us a place to live! Barring any trouble, it looks like we'll be hanging our balaclavas at 2278 58th Ave S in Fargo. It's about half a block away from Bennett Elementary School, which came highly recommended to us. Both house and school were built around 2000. Sadly, the school is not named for former education secretary William Bennett, which would have been fun, but instead in honor of recently retired Fargo Schools Superintendent Vern Bennett. Bennett Elementary's mascot is a bear, and each grade gets its own kind of bear:
The bears seem to get angrier the further the children progress through the school -- I'm not sure what's up with that.
The City of Fargo has a very informative page with details on the neighborhood. Trash pickup is on Fridays.
The house had been on the market for sale for awhile; the owners agreed to rent it out instead for the year. It's a split-foyer, four bedrooms, about 2,800 square feet. A little pricier than we had hoped a Fargo rental would be -- almost $1,600 a month, and a $500 fee for the dog for a year. It doesn't have a washer or dryer or a microwave -- apparently those things don't convey in that part of the world (it could be worse -- in the South, you tend to have to provide your own refrigerator).
Jen can't send photos back (the laptop was in the shop when she left), so until Thursday when she and the boy return, we'll all have to settle for an aerial shot:
I think it's the house with the milk-chocolate-colored roof in the middle there.
Here's a larger shot, from Google Maps. Their image quality for Fargo is kinda poor, and their map geometry is a little off. So the red pointer should be not on the vacant lot, but on the house just below and to the left (click for a larger version):
Bennett Elementary is off to the right, and that three-pointed thing off to the left appears to be a condominium of some sort.
The house is about six and a half miles from the federal courthouse (left) -- might be nice biking.
This neighborhood is on Fargo's very southern frontier (in fact, the area just west is called "Frontier"!):
We had been hoping to nab something on Fargo's very beautiful north side, and closer to downtown, but Jen reports that the available house rentals up there were completely scary. They all seem to be geared toward college students, and look it. Perhaps nicer housing is available to rent at other times of year on the north side, but everything Jen & Judith saw was a real beater.
My only firm requirement was that the house be on the North Dakota side of the Red River, because if we're going to live through a Fargo winter, I don't want people to think we're luxuriating in tropical Minnesota. You say "Moorhead" (Minn.), people say, "What?" But you say "Fargo," they say, "Whoa!"
So this house sounds great to me. I'm assuming, however, that unless I hear otherwise, it fails Katie's main requirement, which was "a spiral staircase."
The bears seem to get angrier the further the children progress through the school -- I'm not sure what's up with that.
The City of Fargo has a very informative page with details on the neighborhood. Trash pickup is on Fridays.
The house had been on the market for sale for awhile; the owners agreed to rent it out instead for the year. It's a split-foyer, four bedrooms, about 2,800 square feet. A little pricier than we had hoped a Fargo rental would be -- almost $1,600 a month, and a $500 fee for the dog for a year. It doesn't have a washer or dryer or a microwave -- apparently those things don't convey in that part of the world (it could be worse -- in the South, you tend to have to provide your own refrigerator).
Jen can't send photos back (the laptop was in the shop when she left), so until Thursday when she and the boy return, we'll all have to settle for an aerial shot:
I think it's the house with the milk-chocolate-colored roof in the middle there.
Here's a larger shot, from Google Maps. Their image quality for Fargo is kinda poor, and their map geometry is a little off. So the red pointer should be not on the vacant lot, but on the house just below and to the left (click for a larger version):
Bennett Elementary is off to the right, and that three-pointed thing off to the left appears to be a condominium of some sort.
The house is about six and a half miles from the federal courthouse (left) -- might be nice biking.This neighborhood is on Fargo's very southern frontier (in fact, the area just west is called "Frontier"!):
We had been hoping to nab something on Fargo's very beautiful north side, and closer to downtown, but Jen reports that the available house rentals up there were completely scary. They all seem to be geared toward college students, and look it. Perhaps nicer housing is available to rent at other times of year on the north side, but everything Jen & Judith saw was a real beater.
My only firm requirement was that the house be on the North Dakota side of the Red River, because if we're going to live through a Fargo winter, I don't want people to think we're luxuriating in tropical Minnesota. You say "Moorhead" (Minn.), people say, "What?" But you say "Fargo," they say, "Whoa!"
So this house sounds great to me. I'm assuming, however, that unless I hear otherwise, it fails Katie's main requirement, which was "a spiral staircase."
posted by Tom at 4:13 PM
2 Comments:
Well . . . you done good.
I am a very loyal northsider. That being said, it is tough to buy or rent on the north side. (North good -- south bad -- you don't need to hear that story). All of Fargo's growth is to the south/sw; the river caps the growth to the north and permits growth to the south. Northside housing is tough to get (with the except of college student housing for NDSU).
I got a kick out of the 6 mile commute, which sounds huge now to me.
Hope the move goes well. Welcome to Fargo. A former DC/Manassas/28 mile commuter (1.5 hr) -- now 1.2 miles! Adele
"The bears seem to get angrier the further the children progress through the school -- I'm not sure what's up with that."
Pfft! That's easy to explain: It's because bears are godless killing machines, and they are the Number One threat to our national security.
Don't you watch the Colbert Report?
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