Comments on: flat hunting

By: Sigmund Carl and Alfred

Sigmund Carl and Alfred — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:19:07 +0000

And people wonder how depression can set in so quickly.

Vraiment triste.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:36:47 +0000

Oh my. I fantasize about living in Paris, and then realize I would need to win a lottery to do so. I live in Nova Scotia, a 45 minute drive from Halifax–the only city of any size nearby, though a great place to work. But for the equivalent of say, $70,000 US, we own 2 1/2 acres on an ocean inlet and a lovely log home–only 1,400 sq ft, but hey, there’s only two of us and a cat.

Mind you, it’s -19 C right now and there’s 40 cm of snow on the ground with more expected. So you can’t have everything in one place, can you? Best of luck hunting. When you want a vacation by the ocean maybe we can do an exchange!

By: Jason Stone

Jason Stone — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:25:58 +0000

I really miss central heating. We have those same electric heaters in our apartment, but some brilliant person decided to only put them in the common rooms and not in the bedroom. We finally had to buy one of those portable, “oil filled,” radiators for the bedroom, because sleeping under 40 blankets was starting to impede my ability to breath.

Good luck with the apartment hunting.

By: kim

kim — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:13:35 +0000

HEAR a lot, hear.

I swear, my english is getting more and more pathetic with every passing day.

By: kim

kim — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:12:47 +0000

It’s funny to hear the england/france housing debate from this point of view. Up here, we here a lot of british families immigrating over to buy houses to live in France, because the bang for your buck (err, pounds) is supposedly so much better here. I think this is mostly happening in Brittany and Normandy though (I guess so people can travel back to their homeland rather conviently on the ferries?).

But of course, prices here don’t compare to Paris at all, so…