Hola!
Now I'm gonna tell you the story why I moved out of my apartment. When I first came here I was happy to have some place to live at the beginning. But some of the following factors pushed me to look for another apartment:
- my classes are pretty far from where I live (which I didn't know before, I found out few weeks ago)
- for me the neighborhood feels not that secure than other places
- I think I'm paying to much for what I get (at the moment I pay 360 US dollars)
- my room is pretty dark and it doesn't have a proper desk
- the owner of the house is getting on my nerves!
What happened: When Steffi came to my house, the owner told me, that she had to pay too, even if she was sleeping in my room (she had to pay 7 dolars a night, which was definately a rip-off). From that point on I started to think that I don't like to live somewhere where my guests have to pay too! Anyway, at the beginning the main reason to move out was that my classes are about an hour away by subway or bus which is a lot to me. I accept the point that the city is very big and here are other distances than in other, smaller cities, but if I had the chance to live at least a little closer to my college, why wouldn't I take it? So I started looking for an apartment, too. One day the owner came up to me (he's a very annoying person that would like to get to know everything he can to make some business) and asked me if I was thinking about moving out like Steffi (I suppose he saw me looking on the internet or something). So I told him the truth because I don't like to lie, that my courses are pretty far away and that I might move out. Then he said: "fine, but you should know that you should tell me 15 days in advance before you move out, to let me know so I can find somebody else for your room in this time". Well, I said okay, no problem at all, so I went on looking for apartments. I saw a lot of apartments. Some were really nice but expensive, some were very cheap but dirty, some where nice and cheap but a little far from the city center, some were cheap, nice, in the city center but there I would have had to live with an old lady or a working guy. You see, it wasn't that easy to find a nice, affordable place close to the city center with people in my age that don't speak German (I really don't want to live with somebody of my own country to avoid speaking to much German). Well, anyway, suddenly the owner of my old apartment came up to me and asked me: "Well, when are you moving out now?" and I said: "Well, you know, I don't know yet. I haven't found something so far so I can't really tell you. You said I should tell you 15 days before, but I haven't found something until now that I had no reason to tell you." Then he said: "Okay, but you have to decide tomorrow whether to stay for at least 3 months more or to move out within the next 15 days". The next day I told him, fine, I will move out within the next 15 days because I really don't wanna live with this kind of person anymore that's looking so much for money (I didn't tell him this part, of course). He told me that he already has another person that will rent my room. Luckily the next day I visited another apartment in the district "Villa Crespo", which is a little more rich and not that shabby and which is only one stop by subway to my college. The apartment is pretty close to the subway station also and it takes about 20 minutes by subway to the city center (I took about the same from "San Telmo", where I lived before). There I have a nice, big room (compared to the other rooms I saw) with a big desk, a doble bed, we have a washing machine (which I didn't have before), a big terrasse (which we also didn't have before), a small living room and a small kitchen. I will pay 220 Euro, that's great for that kind of place (compared to other apartments I saw). It's not that I didn't like my roommates in my old apartment, I like all of them a lot, but one guy is moving out too, the other one is going back to Netherlands and I can keep in touch with Anna, the girl from the United States even after I moved out.
Now I'm gonna tell you the story why I moved out of my apartment. When I first came here I was happy to have some place to live at the beginning. But some of the following factors pushed me to look for another apartment:
- my classes are pretty far from where I live (which I didn't know before, I found out few weeks ago)
- for me the neighborhood feels not that secure than other places
- I think I'm paying to much for what I get (at the moment I pay 360 US dollars)
- my room is pretty dark and it doesn't have a proper desk
- the owner of the house is getting on my nerves!
What happened: When Steffi came to my house, the owner told me, that she had to pay too, even if she was sleeping in my room (she had to pay 7 dolars a night, which was definately a rip-off). From that point on I started to think that I don't like to live somewhere where my guests have to pay too! Anyway, at the beginning the main reason to move out was that my classes are about an hour away by subway or bus which is a lot to me. I accept the point that the city is very big and here are other distances than in other, smaller cities, but if I had the chance to live at least a little closer to my college, why wouldn't I take it? So I started looking for an apartment, too. One day the owner came up to me (he's a very annoying person that would like to get to know everything he can to make some business) and asked me if I was thinking about moving out like Steffi (I suppose he saw me looking on the internet or something). So I told him the truth because I don't like to lie, that my courses are pretty far away and that I might move out. Then he said: "fine, but you should know that you should tell me 15 days in advance before you move out, to let me know so I can find somebody else for your room in this time". Well, I said okay, no problem at all, so I went on looking for apartments. I saw a lot of apartments. Some were really nice but expensive, some were very cheap but dirty, some where nice and cheap but a little far from the city center, some were cheap, nice, in the city center but there I would have had to live with an old lady or a working guy. You see, it wasn't that easy to find a nice, affordable place close to the city center with people in my age that don't speak German (I really don't want to live with somebody of my own country to avoid speaking to much German). Well, anyway, suddenly the owner of my old apartment came up to me and asked me: "Well, when are you moving out now?" and I said: "Well, you know, I don't know yet. I haven't found something so far so I can't really tell you. You said I should tell you 15 days before, but I haven't found something until now that I had no reason to tell you." Then he said: "Okay, but you have to decide tomorrow whether to stay for at least 3 months more or to move out within the next 15 days". The next day I told him, fine, I will move out within the next 15 days because I really don't wanna live with this kind of person anymore that's looking so much for money (I didn't tell him this part, of course). He told me that he already has another person that will rent my room. Luckily the next day I visited another apartment in the district "Villa Crespo", which is a little more rich and not that shabby and which is only one stop by subway to my college. The apartment is pretty close to the subway station also and it takes about 20 minutes by subway to the city center (I took about the same from "San Telmo", where I lived before). There I have a nice, big room (compared to the other rooms I saw) with a big desk, a doble bed, we have a washing machine (which I didn't have before), a big terrasse (which we also didn't have before), a small living room and a small kitchen. I will pay 220 Euro, that's great for that kind of place (compared to other apartments I saw). It's not that I didn't like my roommates in my old apartment, I like all of them a lot, but one guy is moving out too, the other one is going back to Netherlands and I can keep in touch with Anna, the girl from the United States even after I moved out.
In my new apartment I live with an Argentinian actor and and English guy, both of them are really nice! The girl to whom this room belongs to is studing in Paris, France at the moment and will probably come back in January, which is also perfect for me. Until now, I'm not so sure what I will do between January and February. So I was thinking about flying to Costa Rica in January, stay there until February to do some voluntary work at a national park or something like that (work for free in change of accomondation and food for free) and then I can go on travelling to the Carribean in March and beginning of April. That's my plan so far but let's see what will happen...
That's for now, hope you're doing good! Soon I will upload pics of my new apartment.
PS: By the way - I've got a cat in my flat now :-)
That's for now, hope you're doing good! Soon I will upload pics of my new apartment.
PS: By the way - I've got a cat in my flat now :-)
2 comments:
Hola Dani:
Por fin escribiste algo nuevo, algo más positivo que la última vez ;) Creo que fue una buena decisión irte de tu piso y del idiota (lo siento la palabra) que te lo arriendó. En mi opinión es idiota porque sólo se fija en el dinero. Ya estoy curiosa de ver fotos de tu nuevo piso. Y qué lindo que tienes un gato :) Cómo se llama?
hola simone:
sí! qué lindo que tengo un gato! "ella" se llama Olivia y es muy amable. pero a veces se pone nerviosa
cuando quiere comida. y quiere comida todo el tiempo... :-D
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