Posts made in November 11th, 2009

let the house hunting begin!

Posted by vienna on Nov 11, 2009 in Home and Family | 2 comments

We can postpone them sometimes but the point will come that certain decisions have to be made and for us, the time has come to decide whether to stay in our rented flat or get a place of our own. There’s nothing wrong with our rented flat except that it is expensive. It is situated in one of those century old buildings in the center of the city. There are a lot of benefits of living in the city and it was, in the first few months of our stay here, very practical. I didn’t have a car then so it was great that I can go just about anywhere I needed to go on foot. This made my adjustment (living in a new country) period easier. I was able to develop routines and was familiarized to the city faster than if we would have stayed somewhere far from the city.

After living seven months in this flat, we realized that it is no longer working for us. I mean, we are renting a flat and in addition to that, we are also renting parking spaces. Yep, that small parcel of land where you can park a car costs us 108Euro and since we have two cars, we are paying double. We could still afford it but staying here is no longer an advantage to our finances.

We’ve thought about it thoroughly and we agreed that the most practical thing for us to do now is to look for a house we could buy. So we started looking for houses and as of writing, we haven’t found a house we like yet. Okay, that’s not true. We’ve seen just about a dozen of houses that we I really like but they’re quite too pricey for our taste.

I know that looking for a house and actually buying the house will take a while but I hope that we can find that perfect house soon. I am already super excited about it!