Slice of Life

The Flatshare

By Ari Weaver

You've just moved to Berlin and taken the smallest room in a big old flat in Neukölln for €340 a month. Your flatmates are a DJ who cooks at 3 a.m., a Polish linguist who keeps everyone fed without admitting it, a Brazilian bike courier whose visa runs out in January and Anke, who labels the butter. The rent is this cheap because the landlord wants all of you gone, and this week his letter arrived.

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