My name is Adam Wade, I am a columnist for realhoboken.com, and I live in a basement apartment in Hoboken, NJ.

Pray for me.

With respect to David Letterman, here are the Top Ten reasons you know you're living in a basement apartment in Hoboken:

10.) You are in the city at work, it's starts to downpour really bad. Your co-workers start passing around the hat to help you bail the water out of your place for the 3rd time in as many months.

9.) There's a heavy metal band that sometimes practices in the next basement over. They are less than average for a band, but on cue, they start to play 'Metalica' whenever you wish to take a weekend afternoon nap.

8.) Every 2 months you buy RAID cockroach traps. And at least every 4 months you bump into a cute girl from the bar while buying the traps.

7.) In every bar conversation with the opposite sex, you refer to your living quarters as a 'GARDEN APARTMENT.'

6.) Your ceilings are so low that you can't do jumping jacks even if you wanted to. This may be a blessing in disguise.

5.) You curse the day you ever bought an expensive rug.

4.) Someone got sick all over your front door, and urinated in your mailbox on Hoboken St Patty's day.

3.) You continuously make the statement, "My next goal in life is to live ABOVE ground."

2.) The 'B' in 301B Clinton Street stands for..."BASEMENT."

1.) Last night you got cockblocked.... By your apartment.