The search for a new place to live continues. I found a really nice place a few nights ago and the guys who I'd be living with seem cool, but the problem is that I haven't heard back from them whether or not I've gotten the place. This seems to be a recurring theme -- find a nice place in a good location with cool potential roommates, then never hear back from them. It's already happened twice, why not a third time? I hate to pester these guys, but I really want to hear back from them, even if they say they've found someone else so I at least know what's going on.

I've always felt that it's proper courtesy to respond to someone, even if it was a negative response. I had an argument with a friend of mine in Boston once about the fact that when she received e-mails through JDate (a Jewish singles website), she wouldn't respond if she didn't like what she saw/read about the person sending her the e-mail. I told her that from a sender's perspective, it was really really frustrating to send messages out into the ether and never hear back. I figured as long as the system had a blind "thanks but no thanks" response option, it was common courtesy to use it. No sense in giving someone false hopes.