Citylife is my biggest dream in terms of buying a flat in the city. It's this new area they have completly rebuilt 6 years ago that was turned into a big (beautiful) park, 3 skyscrapers and a mall, and 2 enclosed residential complexes that are supposed to be the best you can have in this city.
When we step through the gates, it's perfect. The real estate agent is elegant, there are families quietly chatting in the common garden areas, everything is quiet and beautiful in a lovely autumn evening.
The flat looks like a fucking closet.
Granted, it's beautiful, but it is advertised as a 136 square meters (1,464 sq feet) and the insternal space is actually 84sqm (904sqf). There is a big balcony, true, but what the fuck, my husband is right, we can't possibly spend over one fucking million Euros for a fucking closet.
And we can't afford to spend more. We can't even afford that much. I do make a lot of money now, but the sad truth is I've been working for 16 years and I've only been making some real money over the past 3, and anyways half of it goes into taxes. Anything over 700k and we'll need to make a loan anyways.
This used to be a place to remind myself to stay skinny and it's ended with a fat, almost 40 woman failing to get pregnant and bitterly complaining about house and work. How fucking exciting.
*mirror, mirror,
where's the crystal palace?
but I only can see myself*
(Winter, Tori Amos)
4 comments:
A dream home is nice but you should not be a slave to a home. I could afford more home but it would not make me any happier or more comfortable. sure the new places look great but in the end you will rather have freedom to travel and live and not be changed to a mortgage.
Blogs change, we change. Happiness is no found in material things.
well i ADORE your blog and i adore you. i wish i had the guts to write about my life like you do. i started and stopped blogging very quickly. fwiw my life couldn't be anymore different except I'm blond, same age as you and used to be a chronic exerciser and dieter. i love the sound of the glamorous appartment but i understand the need for space. i have plenty of space but zero glamour and zero good career lololol. i live in a very unglamorous, un city part of far north Queensland Australia. i pray you get what you want. love and blessings x
ps have been following you since almost the start! my life has changed a lot too. it's only natural.
pps i looked up citylife. there's a lot of real estate trick photography because the pictures don't look that small ha ha! i guess the point is, you live your life outside the flat and eat out a lot right? you socialise in the courtyard etc. i guess you will need to write a list of what your dream house looks like. if it's a lot bigger you'll have to find something else. even though I'm stuck in shitsville lol i still take a keen interest in real estate
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