Moving to Karlsruhe is a challenge

I ultimately found an apartment in Karlsruhe….

This journey was not smooth.

• I have searched for an apartment for 4 months.

• I applied for 150 apartments.

• For the majority of my applications I have never received an answer.

• Several times I received an answer “You are a 200/300 applicant, we cannot show the apartment to everybody, so we choose only prominent candidates.”

• I searched in Karlsruhe, Ettlingen, Baden-Baden, Rastatt, Pforzheim, Rheinstetten, Bretten, Bruchsal, and even Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Stuttgart.

• I had 30 viewings.

• There were silent rejections after viewings without any explanations. Still, there were a couple of weird rejections: because I am Ukrainian, I am single, I cook, and I speak German badly.

• There were propositions which I rejected: because of extra 200 euros for the kitchen every month; the contract was crafted in such a way that all my salary will go to sort apartment at the same new condition (but this is just impossible after living in the apartment for several years), the apartment was almost 2 hours by public transport from my office.

• The prices make me speechless! I am paying in Karlsruhe almost three times as much as I paid in Hof!!!

  
  

I came to Karlsruhe on 29th of September, I lived for more than a month in 3 Airbnb apartments and 1 hotel; like life experience that’s great, it teached me a lot and I understood a lot; also I had a privilege living in the center, so I visited all sightseeings and was in the epicenter of life; BUT all of those experiences influences my health because of numerous reasons.

In Hof I lived in a city center in an old historical building with a ceiling about 4 meters; now I am living in a remote but completely new area and a new building with windows from ceiling to floor everywhere, observing what my neighbors are doing while they observe what I am doing....

Have been living here for already 1 month I still have only a kitchen (that was there) and a bed; neither a table nor chairs, nor a wardrobe…. But big windows....