1- When you stood in line with 25 other people in front of a building
2- When you spent your entire summer searching for an apartment instead of enjoying la dolce vita with your friends in Greece
3- When you can't stop saying "but it’s well arranged" all the time
4- When it no longer surprises you to find a toilet in the hallway
5- When you've crashed on all your friends' couches
6- When you've spread out all the new listings on Le Bon Coin (posted during the night) as early as 8 AM!
7- When your friends who live in the countryside say to you "wow for the price of your 50 m2, you could have a 150 m2 house with a garden just 25 minutes from Nice"
8- When you finally end up broadening your search area and forget about the sea view
9- When you have
that there is only one guarantor and that they are neither a trader, banker, nor business owner
10- When you pay a year's rent in advance
11- When you think, “12 m2 to live in is plenty ”
12- When two hot plates, one of which is faulty, will suffice for the pasta you'll have to eat every day with such rent
13- When you’ve asked your friend who knows a bit of Photoshop to make you some fake pay slips
14- When you realize that you actually also need your tax notice and that all of this isn’t worth anything anymore
15- When your roommate tells you a week before that they can’t pay next month’s rent and you have to move out
16- When you get into a relationship much faster than in another city just to have a livable one-bedroom apartment
17- When you’re "rooming" in a studio and sleeping in the "living corner"
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When you finally understood the trick of the Carrez law
19- When you considered moving in with the guy who only wants "young girls" from a classified ad on Le Bon Coin
20- When you thought about taking care of an elderly person in exchange for a room at their place
21- When the ad says "owner's childcare after school" and during the visit, he tells you he wants you to come over 2-3 times a week to pay you in kind
22- When you seriously consider becoming a pimp to pay your rent
23- When you found an apartment but realized after 2 nights that it’s infested with bed bugs
24- When you've cut down 600 trees to make your files (which will definitely end up in the trash)
25- When you’ve considered sharing a place with complete strangers – including a gamer
who spends their life in front of the screen and a 47-year-old alcoholic who tells you her wild life story26- When you crashed at a friend's place for 6 months « just waiting »
27- When you can shower, cook, and sleep all at the same time
28- When you went from a 60 m2 place in 2008 to a 20 m2 place in 2024 for the same rent, in the same neighborhood
29- When you considered calling Stéphane Plaza to take part in House or Apartment Hunt
30- When you call just 2 seconds after receiving the alert and end up directly on a full voicemail
31- When a 25 m2 rundown apartment (with "everything to redo") for 200,000 euros no longer shocks you
32- When you know you'll never have enough to really buy an apartment (not even a 9m2 one)
33- When you've subscribed to all the Facebook groups for apartment hunting