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		Emeliu
 
 
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				 Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:33 am    Post subject: Apartment Size | 
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				| I'm getting an apartment in a poor neighborhood, most likely a one bedroom apartment. By one room does it mean the room is seperate from the living room? or is my living room my bedroom? What is typical in this situation? | 
			 
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		IanChops
 
 
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				 Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:39 am    Post subject:  | 
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				| I'm quite sure that they'll be the same room. Sorry! | 
			 
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		Emeliu
 
 
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				 Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:46 am    Post subject:  | 
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	  | I'm quite sure that they'll be the same room. Sorry! | 
	 
 
 
 
ahh, fail. Gotta start from somewhere than, I suppose. | 
			 
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		Ruthdes
 
  
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				 Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:23 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				| It's got nothing to do with the neighbourhood.  Pretty much every English teacher here (I'm assuming you are/will be one) who lives alone has a studio apartment.  Some of them are shoe boxes and some of them are quite a decent size. | 
			 
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		i
 
 
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				 Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:28 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				Could be worse.  When I first came, it was common for teachers where I lived to be in cheap hotel rooms.  Not the love hotels with hidden parking, but roach infested yeo-gwans with just a yo (mat) on the floor, phone and bathroom.  We had to beg for hot water.  Owner couldn't understand why we wanted it in the Summer.
 
The hookers with their johns got the 2nd-4th floors with A/C.  After a month or so, the owner produced fans for us.
 
That was 1994 in Kwangju.  We didn't know any different.
 
After a year, changed schools where I got a shared apartment. | 
			 
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