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 laid out” about everything
4- When it no longer shocks you to find toilets in the hallway
5- When you've crashed on all your friends’ couches
6- When you’ve shared all the new listings from Le Bon Coin (posted at night) as soon as 8 AM hits!
7- When your friends living in the countryside tell you “wow for the price of your 50 m2 you could get a house with a 150 m2 garden just 25 minutes from Toulouse”
8- When you finally end up expanding your search area to Auch
9- When you have only one guarantor and they're neither a trader, nor a banker, nor a business owner
10- When you have to pay a whole year's rent in advance
11- When you tell yourself, “12 m2 to live in is plenty of space ”
12- When two electric burners, one of which is broken, will have to suffice for the pasta you'll be eating every day with that kind of rent
13- When you've asked your friend who knows a bit of Photoshop to create fake pay slips for you
14- When you realize you also need your tax notice and that all of that isn’t worth anything
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 quicker than in another city to have a livable two-room apartment
17- When you're in a "shared living" situation in
a dormitory and you sleep in the "living room"18- When you've figured out the twist of the Carrez law
19- When you’ve thought about living with the guy who only wants “young girls” in a Bon Coin ad
20- When you’ve considered taking care of an elderly person in exchange for a room at their place
21- When the ad says “owner’s kids after school care” and during the visit, he mentions you'll have to come over 2-3 times a week to be paid in kind
22- When you seriously consider doing some side hustling to pay your rent
23- When you find an apartment but realize after 2 nights that it's infested with bedbugs
24- When you've cut down 600 trees to make your files (which will probably end up ag...
25- When you thought about sharing a flat with complete strangers – including a gamer who spends all his time in front of the screen and a 47-year-old alcoholic who tells you her wild life story
26- When you’ve crashed at a friend's place for 6 months “ just for now ”
27- When you can take a shower, cook, and sleep all at the same time
28- When you went from a 60 m² apartment in 2008 to a 20 m² one in 2024 for the same rent, in the same neighborhood
29- When you’ve thought about calling Stéphane Plaza to participate in Recherche Appartement ou Maison
30- When you call just two seconds after receiving the alert and hit the full voicemail
31- When a 25 m² moldy apartment (with “everything to redo”) for 200,000 € doesn’t shock you anymore
32- When you realize that you'll never have enough to actually buy an apartment (not even a 9m2)
33- When you've subscribed to all the Facebook groups for apartment hunting