Paco´s Life: Madrid

Settled Down at Stockholm / Asentado en Estocolmo

Getting accommodation in Stockholm was not so hard, even though the city was supposed to be a difficult one for this. It was necessary, however, to pay some money. Here you have to pay in order to get contact details of landlords from the main web site, 696 swedish kroner, arround 75 euros. At least for me, it was worth it, in just 2 days I visited 3 places and decided to stay in the third one. Funny thing, it seems that the main thing that made the landlord give the flat to me was the fact taht I work in the Spanish embassy. He made me submit a letter stating this and from that moment everything was easier. I could even negociate the price to make it 100 euros/month cheaper and reduce the deposit to the half. Anyway, the place is gonna be expensive, 6500 swedish kroner per month (arround 700 euros) but I think I get the right value out of my money, it is a 70 m2 flat, 7 min from the centre by train. Very, very big to be living at my own, I even have a spare room for visits. Here you can see how it looked like when I moved in. As you can see furniture was very crappy but, as I did when I was living in Cardiff with ebay, I decided to invest some money in the place. At Blocket you can buy second hand stuff and in the Statoil gas stations you can rent a van to transport it. This was the final result…

The van