- Everywhere is uncomfortable – the mattress doesn’t work with the bed frame so we have to sleep on the floor. I don’t have a proper desk or desk chair, instead I have a round metal outdoor table and chair, which is really fucking uncomfortable. The couch cushions were smooshed by someone considerably heavier than me, and there is no way I’m going to replace them because I never knew how expensive cushions were.
- It’s not private – we have loads of windows, which is nice for an apartment, but some of those windows are in a 12ft glass dome that looks out on at least 50 apartments and has no blinds. Our flat is so small that someone on the other side of the road at our level could see all of our house and everything we’re doing.
- It’s too small – I don’t know what the square footage is but it feels like 250sqft. And my boyfriend works from home. We have a living area, and a pokey bedroom. This does not work with two people when one works from home. Let me assure you.
- It’s fucking dusty – the floorboards in the living area weren’t laid properly and have big cracks between them. The cracks are such that shit can’t be swept or vaccumed up from them. Also, Manchester is so polluted that nasty black car shit dust is always ending up on stuff. Gross.
- It’s broken – the oven and hobs are wired incorrectly and the fuse likes to break. All the appliances are brown and from the ’70s. The toaster says “Made in West Germany”. The fridge ices up so badly that even if it is on low it will freeze up enough in a month that the trays have been taken hostage and the ice is trying to eat our condiments. The hot water cylinder has been leaking onto the terrace and ground 5-floors below for over a year. The windows and doors all have gaps. Wood around and underneath the bath tub is rotten. Two door handles are half-falling off and one can’t be fixed because it’s been screwed in too many times and the wood is full of holes.
- It’s stinky and gross – this is due to dust and the fact that it wasn’t cleaned properly before we moved in. The people who lived here before us were heavy smokers, and we had to throw loads of stuff away because it was yellow and covered in sticky tar. The walls are stained yellow.
- It’s noisy – at the end of the street is a stupid bar for stupid people and a stupid Greek restaurant for stupid drunk women. About twice a week the Greek restaurant brings about 20 customers out on the street at about midnight to dance in a circle and scream. The stupid bar for stupid people just has stupid drunk people that come out at 2am and scream like they are being raped and/or murdered. Naturally, this wakes me up a lot.
- Our landlord wanted to put our rent up an extra £100 a month – I don’t need to elaborate on this one. Crack. Squirrels.
I can’t wait to leave. ONE MORE MONTH.
Why did you choose the Manchester over London out of interest? I think you’d have a much higher opinion of Blighty if you’d chosen the capital – it’s great here – bit cold over winter, but that’s what the pub’s for
I have two good friends from New Zealand who live in Manchster (they actually live across the road from us in another apartment complex in the city centre, we’re so Friends) and they convinced me that Manchester to London was like Wellington to Auckland. Well, I can’t say I agree with them, but the other reasons I moved here instead of London were right – less polluted (although still very polluted), cheaper to live (although still very expensive), smaller (obviously). I don’t know if I could live in London, simply because I fucking hate the underground and I don’t like how big it is. I could have lived in Brighton quite happily though!
Heya anifannyfanuiae
Apart from the sucky apartment its good to see you still have your shit togeather. Life here is still having huge ups then massive downs etc etc.
Got a hot new job as a sexy telecom broadband specialist, so geekdom shall be at my fingertips 8 hours a day again.
/Waves
Lum
my old fridge used to do that. it got to the point that i kept an ice pick in my steak knife holder thing cause i would use it so damn much.
That’s funny. It doesn’t seem like that long ago you were writing about your great new flat.
And thanks to your site’s search function I find, from July: “While the place is in a great location and is a nice place….The best thing about our flat, next to the floor-to-ceiling windows and the two balconies, is that…”
Haha, that’s funny! I’m sorry to do that, but I couldn’t help myself.
Moooahahaha!
That was before we found out about a lot of the broken stuff, sadly. It’s one of those flats that strikes you as really cool when you first see it, but when you live in for a while (and try to deal with the landlord) you realise that it actually sucks.
But at least I know to check for these things for my next flat!
Also, it’s really nice to finally have a search that works well!
What do you think about a collection of “what sucks where” articles, regarding the countries you’ve been to? You must have a lot of those little rants, what about putting them all together?
Alright!
Actually that would make a great website project. One could choose a country/state/city and read all sorts of rants from people who live/lived there, with a vote attached to each rant that would lead to interesting statistics about which place sucks in which regard. The negative emotion accumulating on that site would sure be enough to make a couple of inanimate things come alive Ghostbusters II style, but it would be precious information. Say if I wanted to go to Canada or NZ because I am so sick of Germany I should visit the place myself of course, but then there is just so much suck you can perceive in a limit time, and going to nice places also tends to screw with your perception of negative issues. Talking about NZ, I’ve never been there. It sure looks nice, but my negative issues list for NZ is only inhabited by “earthquakes” “crummy broadband” & “you may have to import a lot”. That can’t be all! Tell me that’s not all! *g*
that sounds like an awesome idea oliver.
Yeah I like that idea too, Olivier. I can help build it if you want.
I’ll keep it in mind, but it could get started next year. Just grabbed me whatsuckswhere.com for the purpose *g*