Archive for October 30th, 2008

Well there have been a few questions posed about life here.  Can’t say I know much as I’ve only been here a month, but I’ll give you my experiences so far. 

As far as housing goes, we did manage to get on-post housing so we lucked out there.  A lot of places around here charge for either heating oil or electricity.  Getting a break on one is nice, but it will still cost about 500 a month for electricity.  I am so glad that we scored the great place we did, and that its on post!

It costs a lot just to get ready to live here!  Clothes, tires, winterizing the car, etc.  I have gone through about 1500 on just getting set up for winter!  That doesn’t include the little things like road salt, snow shovels, etc.  However, its getting to the point now where its futile to use the snow shovel and ice doesn’t work colder than -10.  If it stops snowing for a few days, I get out and scrape off the drive, other than that I just wait it out.  The snow is very dry/fluffy anyway.  It won’t even make a snowball, so a lot of it sublimates and blows away.