| | Must say, I'm glad Germany lost their game and I'm happy for all Italians out there. In fact the whole city is happy. After the Argentina's loss last Friday, a black cloud was hovering over the entire city. Brazil's loss helped disipate that cloud a little bit but not until yesterday did it finally disappear. It's funny, Germany was seen as the evil team that 'fixed' their way to the semi-finals (personally, I think they did). Now they're history and everyone is happy happy joy joy.
Enough with fútbol... Starting this week, I've been trying to look for a permanent place to live. Mike and Vanessa, whose place I've been loitering at for the last month, came back from their trip to Germany and told me I have 1 week to find a place or find a nice spot on the streets. The way its going, I better find a safe warm shelter under a bridge or something.
The problem is that there are two types of apartments, furnished and unfurnished. The furnished ones are designed for Yankees (pronounced 'Shankees' here) like myself who come from the states with more money than god, or at least that's what they think. Therefore, those apartments are fairly small and expensive. Typically a 'dollar apartment', as they call them, will have the cheapest, crapiest, furniture bought from the local KMart-like store. They aren't all that bad though, but the thing that sucks about them is the price. They range usually from 700 for basic ones and 1200 for the 'I wanna be a Big BaLLaH' ones. May not sound that expensive by American standards but when you compare it to the prices of unfurnished 'Peso apartments', it would piss you off like it's been pissing me off.
For Peso apartments, the max you'd pay for a 'BaLLaH' pad would be about 500, about 1/2 the price. So, to any smart person, the peso apartments would be the way to go. Enter the 'lack of trust' issue that Argentine culture has, especially here in a big city. Apparently, the eviction laws aren't too landowner friendly, so once a hobo decides to not pay the rent, it's really hard to kick him out. Therefore, you have to pay a year in advance in straight cash or have a guarantor that owns property here, or in some cases, do both. Sometimes, even with all that, the landlords still won't trust you. So, all in all, it may take some time before I find my dream pad if I ever do.
But Mike and Vanessa aren't really kicking me out, I just kind of want my own place as I'm sure they want their futon to be free of that persian man smell. So we shall see what happens, wish me luck...
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| | Posted 7/5/2006 12:35 PM - 1 View - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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