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Dark/loud Which one of these 2 apartments is a less horrible choice?:)

HU-559599644
4 years ago

Hello everyone :-)

(Not a native)

In 2 hours (boy am I nervous :/ ) from now I am supposed to decide which one of these flats I am going to live in for the following 3 years.

As I work from home, it is really important for me to feel at peace and like at home. I really hate noise (mostly music with basses and highways) and dark places. Which is tragi-comic as you are about to see.


1) A duplex (not big). Cosy, clean, well furnished. The design is not my cup of tea, yet bearable. Downsides : 40 minutes of drive to the city centre. It is an old "socialistic" building with thin walls (sometimes you can hear your neighbour´s TV or their music / kids :// (I was said that by the owner - well at least he was honest).

The top room is a bedroom (basically just a floor with a bed and a wardrobe). What bothers me are the not so good stairs (that remind me more of a as you can see in the picture below). Would you live in such an apartment if the bathroom was on the 1st floor?)

I have to add that the stairs in the flat (this is not an original photo) are steeper.

2nd option - lovely location, with nice cafés and places around. Very loud (public transport, cars).

The living room (which is big and nice) cannot be used for any other purpose but as a storage room due to that :// (I know it could be fixed somehow investing money into the windows / anything but I am only renting it myself and it is pricey already ://

The bedroom is on the opposite side of the building and SEEMS (at least around lunch hours :( quiet enough.

However..I would have to use the bedroom for studying (and doing basically anything) too since I could not study in the living room. But it is a 1st floor apartment and because of that no direct sunshine ever enters the room. It feels cold and sad there.

The sun makes me energized and happy. Is there any way to fix it? HAS ANYONE OF YOU ever lived in similar apartments? Would you do that again?

Everybody tells me that natural sunshine just cannot be replaced by any (student-budget-friendly) technology.

So can´t you really cheat mother nature? ,-)


The 3rd option is not to take either one of them (which would mean cancelling my summer holiday, losing the big deposit and spending a lot of time and money haunting another flats :(( (even more complicated due to the fact that currently I live 5 hours of drive to the new city)


If anyone has experience living in such flats, I would be really glad to hear your opinions !

I may be able to find some photos too..If I get any response at all :-)

I would be very interested to know how to make living in option number 1) or 2) more bearable in terms of noise / lack of sunshine. Is it ever fixable (it really needs to be low-cost - I am a student). Thank you so much ! :)

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