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Hey, so I thought we should tell you more about the process of finding a place. I see that some of you thought we found a place really quickly but for us time was running out. Like I said, Sep. 1 is a crutial date, because that’s when most of the people want to move in (this is due to all of the students here). So basically, if we hadn't found a place until then, the search would have been much harder and we would have had to look farther away, like in a city called Somerville (right north of Cambridge, my brother is moving there also Sep. 1) or in Brookline (the place of Jews/Israelis) or Newton (another place of Jews). Jees, lots of Jews. Speaking of, many of the apartments we saw had a mezuza or were owned by some Jew/Israeli.

Where was I? OK, so apparantly, most of the apartments for Sep. get rented as early as June and July. We were told that that is the best time to look for an apartment in Cambridge (and if the place we found turns out to be horrific, we will start looking next year already in June). So by August, not much is left and you have to be lucky (like in everything else..). Most of the Realtors actually showed us the SAME places.. (I read about that phenomenon somehwere online) (most places were clean and cool but better for 1 person, not 2). I was running around from Realtor to Realtor, eating each day at the same place (Au Bon Pain) and not really looking to see what’s around me. Hopefully now we can start being tourists! And I must say it’s gonna be weird living in a place where so many tourists come to visit. Like on your way to work seeing a group of tourists taking pictures of some church we ourselves probably won't even visit..

Anyway, now we need to get the apartment measured and buy stuff (at… Ikea?). We'll be sure to get extra matresses or a sofa bed, because we know you just can't wait to visit us

PS: I have no spell check on this computer, so excuse me for any mistakes.. Aviad is working on the laptop with the Hebrew.

PPS: Some of you wrote me emails and I didn't get a chance to respond yet, but believe me, I am thinking of you and am happy the English is not a machsom….

PPPS: To some of you we're responding in the tguvot of the former posts - I hope you don't miss that.

PPPPS: I just wanted to see what 4 Ps would look like..