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[Weigookin74]

For EPIK teachers, how's your apartment? Luxury or crap? Please tell and let's compare our apartments around the country.

[fungrel]

one room, built 6 months before i moved in.
Average one room prices for this village in the middle of nowhere is about 150,000
Couldn't have asked for better for the 350,000 the school pays for it.

[Reise-ohne-Ende]

Mine last year was pretty good, although it was strange. A villa. I was the only apartment on my floor (there were only four floors). It was a long, skinny room with no right angles, so arranging the furniture was kind of difficult. Still, it was plenty big for a one-room, and it felt nice and private.

My new one is even better. It's also a one-room, but bigger and square. It feels a lot bigger, actually. It's on the 11th floor so I have a great view of the city and train tracks. The bathroom is kind of cramped (my hips are too wide to take a shower comfortably because the washing machine is wedged in too tight, so I have to kind of lean back into the water stream. And the area is horrrrrrible. I'm talking prostitutes, beggars, ajummas with trash can fires, dead cats on the street, houses falling apart (collapsed roofs, broken windows), and packed to the brim with trash, etc. But the apartment is really great so it's worth it to me.

[Ramen]

3 bedroom mansion with large front/back yard and 5 minutes away from the seaside.

[Fox]

Five rooms (2 bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, living room) with 2 verandas (one on either side). It's pretty nice, though the wallpaper is ugly.

[Underwaterbob]

Provided housing was a reasonably sized, one-room that was a dump when I moved in, but cleaned up nicely. Now they pay me 400'000 a month to live in a nearly brand new house with a 100pyeong yard whose rent is 300'000 a month, has no gwanribi and mysteriously cheaper utilities (this place uses less electricity than a one room?!) I did have to furnish it though.