There's still no word on the job hunt here, but that isn't stopping me from thinking about where I may end up moving to, assuming I get one of the jobs I've applied to already. Although my father has always encouraged me to avoid the apartment route whenever possible, I'm thinking that I should probably get an apartment for at least the first year or two after I move out, just so I can really get to know the city that I move to first, and then get a house once I really know what the neighbourhoods are like and what stores and other places I need quick access to.

This presents one huge problem for me, though, in that I'm guessing that me playing so much DDR/ITG could pose problems for the people who have the apartments next to me or below me. Now, I do know some people who play DDR in their apartments and don't get in trouble for it, but these people don't exactly weigh as much as I do. Back when I first got into DDR, I played up here in my second-floor bedroom, and my parents apparently could hear my steps quite loudly below, even when I was playing on the softer pads that have an inch of foam underneath them.

I'm guessing that I wouldn't have so much trouble if I were on the lowest floor of the apartment complex -- I remember one friend back from my UT days had an apartment that was below ground level and you could stomp your heart out down there without affecting anything -- but I've also heard that ground-floor apartments are far more susceptible to being burglarized than apartments on higher floors. I'm not sure that's a risk I want to take, even for the sake of my dance games. Then again, being forced to only play dance games at the arcade could get expensive for me really fast there, not to mention the fact that I've sunk so much money into my dance games these past three-plus years.

This will probably wind up being a bigger deal for me than I realize, because only after I started playing dance games did I really start getting the exercise I've needed for so long. I am interested in doing more varied forms of exercise here, but I think my dance games will continue to be, at least for the foreseeable future, the anchor of my workouts. I just hope I can find a dance game-friendly apartment complex wherever I end up moving to.