No, but thanks anyway …

So I just got back from looking at the first place that I had arranged to see today, and it was not exactly what I was looking for. The weirdest thing, and I almost took it for this reason alone, was that the owner of the house was a Nazi. I’m not kidding, he was a lieutenant in the German Army during World War II. I am not a promoter of a Nazi mindset or of anything that they believed during the Second World War, but to me it was was a very surreal experience to have met someone like that. But the place itself left something to be desired, having been owned by old people, it looked old. Old furniture, old appliances, and just an old musty feel to the place. Plus it was in the basement, had no phone line: they expected me to have a mobile, and everything looked like it hadn’t been changed since the 1940’s. At £340 (~$544) a month, there is no way I can pay for that. The surreal experience will have to be limited to just that brief encounter because I’m not going to pay that much for the crappy little space in the Nazi’s basement.