I can afford to spend $500 on rent or maybe, with severe economies, $600 and still have $400 or $500 left over for food and gas. In the Key West area, this pretty much confines me to flophouses and trailer homes — like the one, a pleasing fifteen-minute drive from town, that has no air-conditioning, no screens, no fans, no television... Which statement best describes how the author responds to her search for housing? A. She is outraged that nothing fits her needs and ends up going over her budget because she cannot scale her expectations.
B. She compromises and easily finds a comfortable, convenient “efficiency”, which goes against her original expectation that finding affordable housing would be difficult.
C. She is inconvenienced by the drive from her place to work, but she finds unexpected joy in living in a small community.
D. She is shocked not only by the low quality of housing within her means but her dramatic change in social status