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Just to give people some perspective, this is very cheap to basically unattainable in Berlin today. Assuming you want to live somewhere with good transit conne

by ido 13y ago

Just to give people some perspective, this is very cheap to basically unattainable in Berlin today. Assuming you want to live somewhere with good transit connections and fairly central (say, on the inner side of the Ringbahn[1] or close to it) a 3-room apartment (2 bedrooms+living room, let's say around 60-70 m^2) will likely cost you 500-600 eur not including heat (700+ including heat and utilities) if you don't inherit an old contract (in Germany landlords are limited in how much they can increase rent on a year by year basis for an ongoing contract, so if you get a new apartment you'll probably pay more than the previous tenant as the land lord will use this opportunity to increase your rent). Overall tho it is still cheap for a western city. I think my expenses dropped almost to half what they were in Tel Aviv. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Ringbahn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Ringbahn

mikecaron 13y ago
I stand corrected, my apartment was then a 2-room (1 bedroom + living room + kitchen + bath; I had thought living room counted toward the room count... it's been some years). Yes, it was a special find, I admit. I was living in an old Soviet style block apartment building next to Weissensee[1]. I was able to come by it through a friend who moved out of town and let me take over the lease. She got it via a friend who knew the man who died living there. She was only there a short time and didn't clear out any of the old East German artifacts that were still left from the previous man. I kept a great deal of them (liquor, table settings, a california closet, a strange folding bed thingie, still-wrapped-up Christmas decorations, etc). I still use my DDR sugar bowl, creamer and shot glasses. I noticed a similarity to my things when I watched the movie, "Goodbye, Lenin!". [1] https://goo.gl/maps/eKO6O https://goo.gl/maps/eKO6O

by ido 13y ago

mikecaron 13y ago

I stand corrected, my apartment was then a 2-room (1 bedroom + living room + kitchen + bath; I had thought living room counted toward the room count... it's been some years). Yes, it was a special find, I admit. I was living in an old Soviet style block apartment building next to Weissensee[1]. I was able to come by it through a friend who moved out of town and let me take over the lease. She got it via a friend who knew the man who died living there. She was only there a short time and didn't clear out any of the old East German artifacts that were still left from the previous man. I kept a great deal of them (liquor, table settings, a california closet, a strange folding bed thingie, still-wrapped-up Christmas decorations, etc). I still use my DDR sugar bowl, creamer and shot glasses. I noticed a similarity to my things when I watched the movie, "Goodbye, Lenin!". [1] https://goo.gl/maps/eKO6O https://goo.gl/maps/eKO6O