Entries tagged as lifestyleWednesday, March 11. 2009Freedom and confinement now over![]() It was exactly three years ago when I sold my previous car. The months before that sale were such a torture and the sale itself was such a relief that I decided to go on without an automobile for some time. I had been living in a vicious circle: I rarely used the car as it was always broken, and it was always broken as I only used it rarely and had it parked outside in all weathers. And because I actually only needed it rarely in the big city, it wasn’t that hard living without one. However, it really would have been impossible without Doris’ company car that enabled a casual weekend shopping or similar. But furnishing our new home outside the urban area was unthinkable with that small vehicle, what forced us to borrow a car from our families once in a while. Our demands have changed and the torture is now exactly on the immobile side, what led us to the acquisition of a more spacious vehicle. We broke it down to a Škoda Fabia station wagon, as the Octavia model provides more space than we really need. Although a certain Austrian cabaret artist makes fun of people who buy a Škoda with extra equipment (i.e. those who want to have everything but don’t want to pay for it), we just became such folks. It’ll be a Fabia II Combi Elegance 1.6 with 77 kW in Flamenco red Anthracite gray and will arrive at the beginning of May. The list price was just under €20,000.
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Monday, June 30. 2008Wir verlassen die Stadt![]() Heute haben wir den Vertrag für unsere neue Wohnung unterschrieben. Sie befindet sich deutlich außerhalb von Wien. Nachdem ich vor Dass ich Kinderzimmer erwähne, führt auch schon zum Hauptgrund, warum wir nicht (mehr) in Wien leben wollen: Da wir selbst Landeier sind und mit dem tristen Flair des Die Ortschaft, in der wir nun leben werden, ist relativ beschaulich, aber groß genug, um die wichtigste Infrastruktur (Schulen, Ärzte, etc.) zu beherbergen. Vielmehr liegt die Entscheidung dafür aber in der strategischen geografischen Lage: Es handelt sich um einen Bahnknotenpunkt, der Weg zur Arbeit nach Wien dauert genauso(!) lang wie der bisherige quer durch die Großstadt, und zwei größere Städte sind – sogar mit der Bahn – nur einen Katzensprung entfernt. Ein Hausbau kam für uns nicht in Frage, da dann viel weniger finanzieller Spielraum bliebe für einen guten Lebensstil. Allerdings wird der Bau erst im Laufe des Sommers fertiggestellt und im Herbst übergeben. Am Freitag haben wir den Parkettboden ausgesucht. Wir können’s kaum erwarten!
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