We just moved to a new apartment where we are going to stay for the next two weeks. My friend has a flat but I was stupid enough to say No cause of this No cause of that when she asked me few months ago to move to Berlin with her. So she rented it to someone else and planned to go back to Istanbul with me. And then I changed my mind.
So here we are:
So here we are:
HOW AWESOME IS THAT!
I fell in love with that flat as soon as I entered, unfortunately it's only for two weeks. So far all the flats I have been to in Berlin were nice, for about the same price we get it in Istanbul. And there were some real shit holes we lived in out there (which I usually realize only when I visit friends in other countries). But we loved it, we were fine with it and they were our beautiful homes. I changed numerous flats over the last 5 years, as far as I remember now, the worst would be sleeping on a balcony in Istanbul for two months (although at the time I found it super charming) or one where the toilets were always clogged, the sewer would go up into the bath tub and there was no hot water (we moved out pretty fast) and the best one would be the flat I will never forget, in Brighton UK with high ceilings, a huge living room surrounded with windows, neatly decorated and my own private bathroom.
In the meantime...
I wrote this post and never finished it. As usual. We just moved out from that flat. My friend in the end didn't find it as charming as I did. It was too smelly and dirty for her (considering our previous flats in Istanbul, I think her priorities change in Berlin). Now we moved back to her friend, then going back to Istanbul to our flat and then coming back to her actual flat in Berlin.
And now my opinion on finding a flat in Berlin somewhat changed. I will be there till end of June since the room is empty and then find something else, hopefully. Since I arrived here I am just listening to bad stories about flat quest. I even got some advice like - Act cool. Say that you are a musician or a freelance marketing expert. Wear cool clothes (what exactly is cool clothes here?). Don't say you are travelling a lot. Show them a fake account to prove your income. In your free time you are an artist - talk nonsense about your art for few minutes. Say that you are going out to Renate. Be cool. Really?...You mean...Really???
People that told me this were looking for a flat around Kreuzberg and Neukoln, so I hope that is the catch since everybody seems to want to live only there. I am fine wherever, of course, if it's not too far (although my friend says there is no way she would let me live wherever, I have to be around here).
All in all, I hope something will work out and I won't have to search for a room. If it is really like that (it does sound a bit exaggarated), I don't really want to live with people doing castings how cool you are. And I would fail on the coolness level anyway I suppose. When I imagined an interview this is how it sounded like in my head:
What are you?
Errr...don't know..errr...a traveller? No! I mean...No, I never travel, no, not me...too scary out there...but I finished marketing!
Why did you move to Berlin?
Well...don't know really...I like it? Cool people. Thats' why. A lot of cool people. Like me...you know...
So what will you do here?
Errr work in a hostel? But only cause it inspires me for my book about trav...I mean lack of travel! I hate travelling...That's what I will write about...Oh and also I paint! I paint nude portraits where people...have sex...it's called Sex with everything! Yes. People have sex with everything. Nude. To show modern trends in hypersexualization and hyperindividualism and transgression and gentrification. And globalization of course.
Where do you g...?
Berghein! Yes! Berghein!
I would probably be the biggest fail so far.
But I don't really need to live in cool places, I would be much happier living in an uncool place, with uncool people as long as it is a super cool rent.
I am not even sure what "cool" means...
