Michael Rock and Christine Fox’s First Southcoast Homes [PICS]

This morning, Christine and I were talking about our first apartments on the Southcoast.  When I first moved to New Bedford in 1995, my first apartment was right next door to the McDonald's on County Street (pictured above).  I liked it because it was within walking distance of The Jukebox on Purchase Street.

It was also within walking distance of Christine's apartment.  She lived in a recognizable house right by New Bedford's Octopus.  Again...withing walking distance of The Jukebox.  Are you seeing a pattern, here?

In 1996, I moved to West Island in Fairhaven to take advantage of living within view of the water.  This was my first "beach house".  It was also where my wife, Cyndi, first walked into my home...saw stacks of dirty dishes and dirty laundry and said to herself "he needs me!"  She was right!

My favorite bachelor pad, though, was right up Balsam Street on West Island in Fairhaven.  I moved in September of 1997. This was a direct waterfront house that I was lucky enough to live in for about a year. I had never lived DIRECTLY on the water before. I LOVED sleeping with the windows open and listening to the waves crash against the rocks. People pay money to hear an artificial version of that on a sound machine. I also loved watching storms move in over the water. When the kids move out of the house and we retire...I would love to move back to West Island, Fairhaven. It is one of the last relatively affordable waterfront neighborhoods on the Southcoast.