I’ve (amongst other, more pleasant things) spent the past few days looking for flats in and around Stuttgart. This basically involves getting up really early, ringing every single number published in the Stuttgarter Zeitung, maybe being a teensy bit flexible about the truth of just how wonderful that sounds, exactly what I’ve been looking for, and saying “next to the walk-in drug rehabilitation and needle exchange centre too? How practical”.
Of course, then you make appointments to see the places and find out that well, it’s a basement, or it doesn’t have say, a kitchen.
“You said on the phone it had a kitchen” I’ll oh-so politely mention.
“I said it has a room where you could build a kitchen, if you really wanted to”. Hmmmm. That’s not quite how I remember the conversation.
And of course, who wants a kitchen in their apartment nowadays - It’s just wasted space isn’t it? But what’s with the adverts which, with somewhat disturbingly honest clarity compared to the ones with “a kitchen”, point out that the flat doesn’t have a shower or bath? Shouldn’t they at least say there’s a public swimming pool nearby? There’s a secluded spot in the garden and it rains frequently? There’s a room where you could put a kitchen, or alternatively rig-up some kind of bucket-full-of-water-suspended-to-the-ceiling with a rope to tip it out contraption?
Still, that was just today. I’m sure the three I’ve got lined up to look at tomorrow are all absolutely perfect…..
I posted the jist of this last time I was looking for a flat, and it still applies
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