SFO 6/8/11

My housing is really great this year. (Not that's it's ever been shabby down here!) I have a really cozy studio apartment to myself! In past years, I've had a housemate from the Costume Shop. (One year there were FOUR first hands in one house!) Apparently there were a lot of single apartments offered in Santa Fe this year. It makes no difference in your rent--the Opera deducts a percentage of your paycheck (depending on your position), and subsidizes the rest.

The Apprentices stay in an apartment complex the Opera owns. There was talk a few years ago about building housing on the Opera grounds, but they couldn't get the required water permits. (Don't quote me on that--just what I heard.) So instead they bought these apartments, and I think it might actually be better--they're in town, walking distance to stores, restaurants, the Plaza. The staff are housed in apartments & houses around the city. I've lived all over Santa Fe--from way out near the airport, to just off Canyon Road, the art gallery district! I love it when I'm walking distance to the Plaza--so much happens down there--arts fairs, free music on the Bandstand in July, Pancakes on the Fourth! I'm in a new (to me) neighborhood this year, and it's really nice, but I'm farther from stuff than in previous years. Oh well!