diamond@zrh:/tmp/accom$ cd ~ 2008 August 15 20:27
Posted by diamond in : Random , trackbackToday we had the handover of our new apartment from the estate agency. Despite all our worries that they might be mean, things went smoothly, and we’re now the proud possessors of a shiny set of keys for said apt. As we saw in the newspaper yesterday, out of the 206000 apartments in zurich, only 57 were vacant at one point in June. So, not only were we lucky to get an apartment at all, we were also extremely lucky to get our first choice, and after only one day of looking at that. Our (wonderful wonderful wonderful) relocation agent, Aline, has never had clients get a place so quickly. I think she was in even more shock than we were.
This marks a major milestone in our whole relocation saga. Tomorrow we are due to receive our airfreight shipment (which took a week longer than expected) which was meant to contain essentials to tide us over until we found a place and our main (surface) shipment arrived. Now, of course, we’re suddenly in need of things like crockery and towels and bed linen etc, and it could well be weeks before that stuff arrives. I guess that’s our fault for getting accommodation sorted so quickly ,-) We’re off to ikea afterwards to try and buy the bare essentials in furniture to start with. Coming from a country where all rental accommodation is furnished, it’s quite a shock when you have to buy things like light fittings and curtains as everyone is expected to supply their own.
Anyway, we have an early start as the shipment is being delivered at 07:30 tomorrow morning (it was a choice between that and wait another 10 days), so i’d better head off to bed.
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