So the annual cost of membership to the local gym just went up again this year.
Much like everything else I pay for, the gym has been hiking their rates as well.
This year, that just didn’t work well for me. I’ve belonged to this gym for almost five years. That’s when I moved here from the city. I now work with the zone-controlled Heating plus A/C of our corporate offices. That’s where I had consistently wanted my job track to end up. But our corporate offices are out in the boonies. I live in a small neighborhood now in an apartment with central a/c after residing my whole life in apartments in a very large city. It’s a large change however I sure do enjoy being a homeowner. Owning a wonderful central a/c, 10 acres of land and a short commute is awesome… And yet, residing in a small neighborhood can also come with limited choices. This was a huge bummer when I moved here. And the gym with its awful heating and cooling is a wonderful example. I didn’t know that the gym was raising the rates again this year. They added nothing to the value of the annual membership. And this was after a promise that the commercial Heating plus A/C would be replaced or upgraded. That commercial Heating plus A/C is just the worst and I just couldn’t justify spending more money for even worse a/c. There is a small gym inside the corporate headquarters that I’m now using. The a/c here is far better even if there are a limited number of machines. I just go there to do some resistance training. Then, I get out of the a/c to do cardio on my own with hiking and biking outdoors.