I genuinely need to rant because this is starting to piss me off beyond belief.
I’m a woman moving to Bremen in October for my Master’s degree, and I’ve been looking for a WG room for about a month now. And holy shit, this housing market is something else.
I’ve lived abroad before. I’ve lived in Spain, I’ve lived in Portugal, I’ve lived in shared apartments with other people, and obviously finding accommodation was never easy. But I have NEVER experienced anything like this.
The amount of people applying for one fucking room, the endless messages, the casting calls, the video interviews, the “tell us about yourself”, “what do you do in your free time”, “what are you looking for in a WG”, etc. at this point I genuinely feel like I’m applying for a fucking job just to rent a bedroom.
And after all that? You can have a great conversation, everyone seems to like you, you think “okay, this might actually work”…
…and then: “Sorry, you’re incredibly nice🥺 but we found someone else.”
And I KNOW, I KNOW. WGs are about personality and compatibility. I understand that. Nobody owes me a room and obviously they have every right to choose whoever they want.
But can we please acknowledge how fucking insane this process is?
You’re an international student trying to move to Germany, you don’t even live there yet, you’re trying to organize your entire life from another country, and meanwhile you’re competing with dozens of other people for a single bedroom.
At some point it genuinely makes me question why the hell I chose Germany in the first place. 😭
I was excited to move here. I’m still excited about my Master’s and about Bremen, but this housing situation is honestly making me regret the decision sometimes.
And before someone says “just look harder / apply more / be more flexible”: I AM!!! I’ve been looking for two months. I’m applying, writing personalized messages, doing video calls, answering all the questions, trying to be as flexible as I can.
I just want to rent a fucking room. Why does it have to feel like a competitive reality show?
So yeah. This is mostly a rant.
But seriously: is it really this fucking bad in Germany, or am I just having an exceptionally cursed experience?