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[LogGrad98]

I've always thought living in Europe would suck balls, unless you were rich obviously. I always watch that House Hunters International show and all the houses over there look like they suck balls. Old, concrete, boring, cold /.... ugh. I could be wrong though. What are your thoughts?

Houses are not very common. Most people live in apartments. And most apartments get renovated when people move out, because most people live in the same apartment for decades. The apartment we found is newly renovated. It has a huge kitchen. A really nice bathroom with separate tub and shower (downside is it only has one bathroom, but the tub/shower is separated from the toilet/sink so it's ok). It has 3 huge bedrooms and a huge family room. The whole place is about 1500 sq feet obviously all on one level and split among 5 rooms. We are on the bottom level so we got lucky and have a little garden/yard area just for us, fenced off and everything. All in all not bad.

 

[Beer]

Houses are not very common. Most people live in apartments. And most apartments get renovated when people move out, because most people live in the same apartment for decades. The apartment we found is newly renovated. It has a huge kitchen. A really nice bathroom with separate tub and shower (downside is it only has one bathroom, but the tub/shower is separated from the toilet/sink so it's ok). It has 3 huge bedrooms and a huge family room. The whole place is about 1500 sq feet obviously all on one level and split among 5 rooms. We are on the bottom level so we got lucky and have a little garden/yard area just for us, fenced off and everything. All in all not bad.

I basically assume everything is old, dated, and bombshelter like.

 

[LogGrad98]

I basically assume everything is old, dated, and bombshelter like.

Here are a couple pics:

Kitchen. The room is about 2.5 times what this looks like.

Other half of the kitchen.

Kids bedroom. Again about 2.5 times this big. (for the record my wife took these and she is kind of spatially challenged =)

Living room. The door leads out to the yard. Again, 2.5 times this big. For some reason my wife likes to stand in the center of the room and take pictures of walls.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

^^^^ how old is the building?

 

[LogGrad98]

It's in one of the older parts of Leipzig and one segment that wasnt hit very hard during the war so built well before the war. Not sure exactly just they told us there are many buildings in that area built in the 1800s.

 

[bigb]

All your outlets look weird.

 

[LogGrad98]

All your outlets look weird.

Yeah they are weird.

 

[TroutBum]

Please buy a metal detector and use it in your yard. Please report your findings. I was using mine in a STG park last week and found the German 10 Eruo coin.

 

[The Midnight]

Moved here for work. Pretty cool gig. I am in distribution and we are building a new distribution center from scratch in Germany, and the first for our company built in Germany. Will be here at least a year, maybe longer. Will have to see how it goes. But so far the language is kicking my ***. Lots of new words to learn for business when the last time I was here it was 25 years ago on my mission.

Sounds like you're Tom Hanks in Castaway in that scene where he was telling all the Russian workers what to do, how things are done in the US, etc.. LOL