House Hunting...

Today was another day of House Hunting. Well from the temperature it was a terrible idea since it was going to be around 99 F (37 C)....but you've gotta do what you have to do.
I was checking out an apartment in Vienna's 12th district. It's not exactly my favorite district, but it would reduce the traveling time to work to about 30 minutes. I got there a little early and that gave me the opportunity to get a feel of the neighborhood. It's your typical working class neighborhood. An average neighborhood and I could have seen myself living there. From the vibe it's very similar to the neighborhood, that I used to live when I was living in Vienna's 20th district. So the place passed the neighborhood check.
The apartment itself was in a building that probably had been built in the early 1970's. At least it was cut that way. Separate kitchen...what isn't exactly my style, but it would have worked for me. The kitchen itself was what I was expecting. Only downside was, that you couldn't have put a big fridge in it, since there was too little room to do so. I'm talking here about european fridge sizes...compared to an american fridge, even a large fridge would be small. But I could have lived with it.
The bathroom was small and there was no way of getting a washer in there and that was something that really was bothering me about the place.
The bedroom was fine. The living room was a nice size, but had built-in cabinets that are so not my style, and I would have had the right to take them down. The only problem with that would have been, that you have no idea what the wall looks behind the cabinet and that there is most likely no flooring underneath that cabinets either. Having to heat the apartment with gas convection units for each room, is not my favorite thing, but I could have lived with it.
Well, all in all it was a very quite apartment and it on scale of 1 to 10 it was definitely a 7. It had many things that I wanted to have, but not all of them. I spent a lot of time going over this place on Saturday afternoon. But I just couldn't get myself to put in an application. And since I was going to see 2 more places at the beginning of next week I will keep it on the short list.
Will definitely keep you guys posted.