Where Should We Settle?

Posted 041222

Where where where? All my life, I didn't expect that I will need to decide where will I or my family should settledown. I've always thought that I will be with someone who's going to be close to my hometown.

I always love the air the ambiance here in our city, no bias involved. By the way, I've been in Marikina City all my life and I cannot imagine living in a different place. Don't get me wrong I've been to other places and worked in different cities too. But that just proved why I loved living in our city. Why? Here are a few reasons:

1. Traffic - Marikina is not a big city unlike Manila, Quezon City and other nearby cities.

2. Air pollution - I can feel the difference of the air whenever I travel. I used to go to school in Manila and worked in Quezon city, Makati and Manila too. Travelling in different cities everyday (because I was a working student), I can really feel the difference.

3. Close to province - My friends and I would always joke that we should go out of town and it was just a few minutes away. Rizal is the nearest province we can go to in less than an hour. We can go to San Mateo, Montalban and Antipolo.

Well aside from the fact that it has been awarded once as the cleanest city in the metro manila, I've always love the fact that the LGU didn't remove all the trees whenever they develop something. They've always kept the clean and green motto.

I know that in the past decade you might be hearing news that Marikina is still a flooded area. Well mostly the area near the river and the most devastating flood that happened was Ondoy and Ulysses. By the way, before Ondoy happened, we never experience flood in even in our former house which was also nearby a river. There were just certain reasons why flood continued to happen in our city whenever there's strong typhoon.

Anyway, I didn't want to leave the city if I were to choose. However, we don't have our own home here. We are just renting since we were young and we cannot afford to buy our own house.

Everything changed now and plans changed too. My husband and I are looking for a home where we can settle down. We are planning to stay in the province where he's assigned to while we look for a house near or within Metro Manila. We've also tripped a few houses in the past few months and we didn't think that it would be so hard to choose or decide for the pros and cons. We have to consider a lot of things especially we have a child now. Here are some things that we need to consider:

1. Accessibility - We need to consider the accessibility because probably most of the time we will need to travel back and forth to somewhere. Like if we will visit my sisters and parents or if we go to the province. Plus my husband also requires to travel from time to time.

2. Establishments nearby - this is a must. We will need to consider if there's a school, hospital, grocery store, pharmacies, church, or other establishments nearby. Schools and hospitals are the most important thing to consider.

3. Neighborhood/environment - this one is important for Lil B's social development.

Well, I can guarantee to my husband that Marikina has the factors that we consider but one thing that keep us away from choosing Marikina is its house/lot value that goes for areas in the city that is high enough for the flood to reach. The bigger the lot area the more expensive it is.

For now, we are still looking for houses near Metro Manila like Rizal, Bulacan or Cavite. I hope that luck will find its way so we can settledown and start saving for Lil B.

You, what do you consider when you look for a place to stay? To settle?

Share your thoughts :)

This is one of the articles stuck in my drafts for months. I drafted this last year, I do apologize for whatever I have here HAHAHAHAH!

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