Moving day
06/05/08 23:54 Filed in: Argentina | Buenos Aires
My house share arrangements turned out to be very unsatisfactory. The accommodation bore little resemblance to what had been described and after a bit or research I discovered I was paying well over the odds.
It was costing me US$550 per month to share a house with 6-8 people with only one bathroom in an old house undergoing restoration in an average area. (it was described as a typical Argentine house where I would be sharing with initially 3 then 2 people).
I arranged to rent a two room apartment in the lovely Recoleta/Palermo area for only $200 more. It felt quite uncomfortable leaving because my hosts were lovely people and very helpful. However this did not alter the reality of the accommodation.
I moved out today and into a temporary apartment on Tacuari for two weeks until the Palermo apartment was available. It was a bit expensive but solved the problem. I got a taxi into school from Balvanera and checked into the apartment at lunchtime. It is only a few minutes walk to school.
It was costing me US$550 per month to share a house with 6-8 people with only one bathroom in an old house undergoing restoration in an average area. (it was described as a typical Argentine house where I would be sharing with initially 3 then 2 people).
I arranged to rent a two room apartment in the lovely Recoleta/Palermo area for only $200 more. It felt quite uncomfortable leaving because my hosts were lovely people and very helpful. However this did not alter the reality of the accommodation.
I moved out today and into a temporary apartment on Tacuari for two weeks until the Palermo apartment was available. It was a bit expensive but solved the problem. I got a taxi into school from Balvanera and checked into the apartment at lunchtime. It is only a few minutes walk to school.