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The access to all blogs and message boards was temporarily blocked the last two days in our work place. Oh, the agony! It’s not that I would suffer incredible pains for not being able to response my comments or anything, it’s the knowledge of not having the access that pains me. Fortunately the restriction was only temporal, because banning all the blogs and message boards in a communications agency? Great idea.
Yesterday, when I went home, I noticed that there was a public apartment showing in the same building and stairway where I live. Ha! Of course I walked in. The flat was directly above of where I live and as they have had originally the same floor plan, it was weird to see just how thoroughly my apartment had been renovated. The flat they were selling was in a really bad shape, a “renovator’s dream” in the apartment-selling-language.
Anyway, it made me think again about buying my own apartment. In Finland taxation makes living in a owned flat clearly the most cost-effective way and people do tend to invest all their assets in the flat they live in. I would even have the first-time buyer’s reduced trade tax advantage, but still. I would like to live in a walking-distance of where I work and that places me in the area where the flats cost about 4000 EUR per square meter. Uh. Right.
My mother strongly discourages me for buying a flat, saying that it’s no use and that I should spend the money on keeping myself pretty and thus finding a man who already has the money and the flat.
1) O_O!
2) What money? At the moment all my money goes for the rent.
3) How discouraging can you be?
4) My mother obviously has some “ideas” about woman’s position in the society.
Duh. If I would be eligible for a loan big enough, I would buy a big flat and make it a Helsinki Slashas Old Maid Commune ;)
Yesterday, when I went home, I noticed that there was a public apartment showing in the same building and stairway where I live. Ha! Of course I walked in. The flat was directly above of where I live and as they have had originally the same floor plan, it was weird to see just how thoroughly my apartment had been renovated. The flat they were selling was in a really bad shape, a “renovator’s dream” in the apartment-selling-language.
Anyway, it made me think again about buying my own apartment. In Finland taxation makes living in a owned flat clearly the most cost-effective way and people do tend to invest all their assets in the flat they live in. I would even have the first-time buyer’s reduced trade tax advantage, but still. I would like to live in a walking-distance of where I work and that places me in the area where the flats cost about 4000 EUR per square meter. Uh. Right.
My mother strongly discourages me for buying a flat, saying that it’s no use and that I should spend the money on keeping myself pretty and thus finding a man who already has the money and the flat.
1) O_O!
2) What money? At the moment all my money goes for the rent.
3) How discouraging can you be?
4) My mother obviously has some “ideas” about woman’s position in the society.
Duh. If I would be eligible for a loan big enough, I would buy a big flat and make it a Helsinki Slashas Old Maid Commune ;)
