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so this is my official first day and
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we'll Harlem I'm staying in Harlem
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because I just wanted to check out a
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different neighborhood or a different
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town that is close to Amsterdam but
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today's my full day and I am on my way
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to Amsterdam because because I have I
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have three viewings which is really good
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yesterday I got in and I was exhausted
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but I managed to fire off some emails to
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potential apartment that I want to check
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out and I have to this morning and one
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it later in the afternoon so I'm just
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gonna go in the city and just spend the
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day you know soak it all in and I'm
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gonna hit go on with me because I really
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want to document what kind of apartments
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are there with the layouts the prices
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and everything okay so if I'm 10 minutes
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early to my first apartment viewing so I
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thought I'd record this and share my
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thoughts on what the neighborhood is
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like so I came here early just to kind
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of check out the neighborhood see what
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it's like understand the vibe and I can
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only tell that this is like a
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residential area
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at nine o'clock it's still very quiet so
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I do like that I can also tell that this
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is an ethnic area I see a lot of Muslim
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people living here so that's another
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thing the only downside of this place
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that I already know is that it's a
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little far from the center it's a
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10-minute walk from the metro station
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and that metro station takes you to the
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main Central Station in Amsterdam but
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it's not I think I don't I don't even
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know how long the bike ride would be to
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my work I'd have to figure that out but
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it is like quite far from like the main
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half ring of Amsterdam and also this
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place is slightly more than what we want
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to pay it's 1495 excluding utilities and
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we really wanted to keep it under 1,500
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including everything so I'll check it
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out see if I love it only if it's I
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really gotta love it in order for me to
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sign up for an apartment of this price
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but I am seeing another one that's a
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little closer to the center
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that's 1395 so if it's closer to Center
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and it's cheaper than this I would
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assume that it's a shittier apartment
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but that's what I'm gonna show you guys
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will see the got there what the
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differences are
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but I know it feels good feels good to
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be here let me just show you something
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really so I'm just sitting on like a
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like a park and look at this look at
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this bench that is like meant for
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sunbathing in the middle of Park and
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there's a gloomy other so it's like
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precisely little things like this that I
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absolutely love about traveling I love
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just seeing something mundane to
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probably the locals here but something
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that is so exciting for me because I'm
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new and I'm here with a fresh eye and I
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really find myself appreciated a lot of
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things in life when I'm in a new
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environment and that's why I've been
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craving to you know brought again I
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really don't know anything about the
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Dutch culture so I'm really excited to
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get to know it I have to still sign up
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for a language class I last night I
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research some meetups that I'm gonna go
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to like expat meetups design meetups cuz
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I'm a designer so I don't know I just
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want to make some friends I want to get
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a bike I want to get settle down I'm
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just so excited to be here but I'm
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definitely not rushing in appreciating
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every little step that I'm taking in
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this beautiful city
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good morning everyone
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um it's the third day in Amsterdam and I
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just woke up and I finally had like 11
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hours of sleep so I feel well rested but
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definitely groggy
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so yesterday I just I think got a chance
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to really vlog because to be honest I'm
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a little embarrassed taking my camera
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out so yesterday I went to go to see
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three places two that were on the east
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side of the town and another one on the
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west side of the town the east side in
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terms of location were great but the
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apartments themselves were crunchy and I
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think that's what you get East Side is
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definitely the more desirable area and
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so if it's going to be in our budget the
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apartments are gonna be run down the
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first place was a little Far East so I
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we didn't really like that and then the
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second place I had such a strong smell
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of curry and I know that the smell of
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curry is not something you can get rid
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of it was kind of intoxicating so and
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plus the the apartment was really grungy
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so that didn't work out
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and then I just spent the day just kind
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of exploring to a city center just
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soaking it all in and then in the
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afternoon I saw an apartment on the west
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side which you'll see and I realized
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that I really don't like the
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neighborhood so the west side of the
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town like further than you're done is
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back in the days a low-income district
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so the houses are not built the same way
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that is in the same Center they are
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taller buildings that are just very
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built for efficiency so there's no
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beauty to it and i kind of obviously
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just felt like any other city that i've
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seen and it didn't feel special the
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condo itself was pretty decent I'm
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noticing that like just in general and
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Amster
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the condos are a lot more spacious
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compared to like downtown Toronto which
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is essentially like a shoebox of like
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500 600 meter square or square feet
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sorry square feet that's a huge 600 so
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yeah so the third place yeah I don't
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know I didn't feel special the
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neighborhood it was also not a lot of
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things were walking distance so like
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there was no shop downstairs there's no
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grocery store downstairs or like within
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like a couple minutes of walking so I
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spoke to my boyfriend yesterday and we
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decided to upper budget slightly to 1500
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years excluding utilities and what we
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determined is that you know we moved all
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the way here to Amsterdam to be
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surrounded by beauty and culture and if
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that means that we have to just like
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tighten up our budget maybe I have to
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shop a little bit less in order to be
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really in it and be part of the city
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center and live somewhere we're really
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really imagine ourselves then so be it
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so yesterday I fired off another like
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huge round of emails to potential
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apartment so hopefully I'll hear back
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soon and I don't really know if they
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work on weekends it's Saturday today but
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today I have another place to go see and
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I found this apartment through Facebook
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and it's interesting because Oh while
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it's the closest to the city center out
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of all four it's right by the water so
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from the half circle it's on the west
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side but right by the water and from
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what I understand all the developments
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by the water are newer and kind of built
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for to address the need for a lack of
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housing in Amsterdam so I hear there's a
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lot of just tall buildings so I'll just
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have to see what it's like I'm gonna
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walk there and everything in the bus if
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I can really soak it all in
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we'll see yeah oh so another thing this
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place it's in our budget but there in
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Amsterdam there's this thing called
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agency fee in Toronto as a renter you
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just pay the you know you know your
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monthly rent and deposit and that's it
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it's really the tenants that work with
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the agents and pay the agents in order
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to find somebody live in your location
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or in your housing here it's the
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opposite just because the markets
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different you pay as a renter to the
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agency so a couple places quoted me like
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400 500 euros which is okay this place
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1200 euros that's almost a one month
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rent so once again I really have to love
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this place
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in order for us to pay that but well to
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be honest I'm not very optimistic I know
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it's not going to be and your central
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but we'll see I'll take you along with
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me
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this is like a low-income area lady that
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I spoke to yesterday about some real
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estate she said that in Amsterdam if a
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building has more than three floors it
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means that it was built for a little bit
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compelling because obviously when you
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build up more people can live in it so
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all the buildings here are four five six
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floors
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while I was waiting there was a couple
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of other people waiting as well and
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there was a couple of like junkies
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outside kind of hanging around one of
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them approached a couple to ask for
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money they do that whole typical oh you
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know I have to go somewhere I don't have
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anything
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they got sketched out on left I stuck
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around because I'm here anyway whatever
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let's try it but in that time that I
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stuck around he approached me as well
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it's just uncomfortable right like you
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don't really want to live where the job
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and then the apartment itself was decent
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I don't know maybe you guys minded but I
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do mind it I know it's so hard to get
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rid of personal a big fan of so
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it's not feeling good about it so I'm
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realizing that sub 1500 in Amsterdam -
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means you're gonna get grungy places so
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I know we increase our budget to like
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1500 plus but maybe we even have to go
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higher I'm not sure I'm not sure but
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yeah no dice
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mr. budget I forgot about emails again
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and today I'm seeing three different
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places all between the budget uh fifteen
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fifteen sixteen with dread excluding
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utility than Wi-Fi so it's been really
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easy to find a lot of options in this
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price range
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I even have rejected at some of viewing
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because now I know better I know what
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look out for like I definitely know what
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neighborhood someone her boy so the
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first one I'm seeing today is really in
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the center center of Amsterdam I'm right
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here right now looking around and I can
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see that it's gonna get really loud here
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definitely wear like a lot of bars are
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it's not the top of the rink in the very
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middle the second place that we're
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seeing it's a two-bedroom for 1600
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and it's actually at the cut of the West
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End so right before it gets cut she does
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for the apartment from the looks of it
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it's definitely like simple nicest place
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in terms of recently renovated a third
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place is actually on the East End which
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is the most popular area right now
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and I haven't even been there yet so I'm
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really excited to check it out so
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good morning yet another day in Harlem
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yesterday I saw three four I can't even
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keep track anymore
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one that I absolutely loved my boyfriend
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loved it as well so I sent out an email
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saying hey I'm interested in like you
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know making an offer
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now I kind of kind of apartment that
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they're gonna be like million other
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couples interested in I'm not really
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sure how the real estate akhirin is
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going to decide whose profile they
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forward to the landlord to review but
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I'm like really nervous about it
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overall like all the apartments that I
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saw yesterday were really decent it's
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just now I'm getting picky it was
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beautiful it was really like
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the only doubt is that it starts in
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August first but you can always find a
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room for one month and I
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I'd rather get on and move into the
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dream home than you know
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but so today it continues the search
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continues I'm seeing through more places
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because you just never know if you're
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gonna get rejected or not you can't go
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to put magazine multiple baskets so
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that's what I'm doing today let's go
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I'm back I had another full day of four
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viewings and I can't say that any of
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them went well the first one was so bad
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that I didn't even film it second one
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was good it was like having all the
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potential but it was really run down and
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the real estate agent told me that they
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didn't really bother to like you know
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update to update the furniture and paint
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the place before they started viewing
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and they said that's an option like I
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can request such a thing but the fact
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that the landlord didn't bother doing
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that and was kind of waiting to see if
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somebody complains to do it
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gives me a bad impression maybe I'm
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being picky maybe I'm being ridiculous
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but it's I haven't even been here for a
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week so I'm not that desperate yet I'll
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keep that in mind I'll keep this one in
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mind what I do get desperate because it
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is beautiful in terms of the view the
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spaciousness the storage third one
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amazing location but it just was a
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little too small for two people I think
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we would have bumped into each other a
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lot and just like I don't know I was old
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yeah
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no not for that price and then the
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fourth one actually was the biggest one
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that we saw a little older a little
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further but like huge like two bedrooms
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that can fit two double beds but the
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existing tenants there must have been
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linked bunch of students or something
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because I literally saw like dirty bowls
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with like food crust all over the
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apartment like underwear like lying
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around like it was gross and like the
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real-estate agent was there and he
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didn't say anything he wasn't like all
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I'm sorry like you know they're gross
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we'll cleaned up like nothing you're
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just like oh welcome like you look at
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please take a look I'm like if I don't
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know like
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I would I I don't know so that's another
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like potential if I get desperate and I
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say if I get desperate because I did
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show interest to two of the apartments
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that I saw yesterday the one with the
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canal view and then the one right in the
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center my heart is that on the canal one
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like I've been thinking about it all day
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comparing all of the apartments to the
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canal one and I know it's wrong you know
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it's wrong to fall in love here in
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Amsterdam with an apartment but I
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already have and I'm now screwed and you
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know when you submit on that application
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for them to review you submit your
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passport copy and your salary or work
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contract so that they know that you're
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know you're eligible to pay the monthly
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rent so I did that and they both told me
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that it look good and that they will get
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back to me by the end of the week it's
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only Tuesday
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I'm like losing sleep over this stuff
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I'm stressed but I'm also over it so
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tomorrow I didn't do any more bookings
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actually I don't have any more bookings
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I've seen more than ten now and I think
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that's enough for now so tomorrow I'm
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going to treat myself to a day away from
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the city the day away from errands and
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you know checking my phone constantly
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trying to like figure out what's good
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what's bad I'm just gonna get out and
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maybe go to the beach maybe you go see
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one of many castles maybe go to add them
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at the cheese or beamster and have some
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cheese I don't know something that's not
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in the city apartment viewing yeah maybe
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I'll take you guys along with me but
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that's my update and hopefully hopefully
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hopefully we get the Canal one because
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it's freaking beautiful and I'm I can
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see myself living there and that's all I
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want that's all I want
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