Feels like home

Finding a right place to live is crucial when moving abroad. It will affect every aspect of our future life in a new country, sometimes in ways we can hardly predict.

Starting a life from scratch abroad comes together with a series of surprises, how different the everyday life can be just slightly over a thousand kilometers away. Funny, exciting and terrifying at the same time. At the beginning, everything is temporary – you try to feel the situation, in the end choosing your best opportunities. This includes the very basic, and how important need – a place to stay. How funny, that in my case, together with a new apartment, came a new job.

Welcome to Switzerland

Finding a new apartment in Zurich by an expat on a short term job contract with almost no German language skills – good luck there. The whole process seemed complicated enough for a newbie, and perfect apartments don’t grow on trees. A lot of time, nerves, post stamps and paper wasted to finally move into the Apartment… With no light bulbs nor toilet seat, and with a shared washing machine I can use only once per two weeks. So many lessons learned.

Welcome to Flatfox

The apartment hunt was over, but I still had to find a new tenant for my old place, so I could finish the process of moving out ’n’ in as soon as possible. This is when I came across Flatfox. Putting the advertisement online took me like a minute, all in a crowded train during my (way too) long commute back home from work. And the magic began. Flawless! If only I knew about it when I was looking for my new place, things would have been so much easier. Being completely amazed how smoothly the process went this time, I started snooping around the website, out of curiosity hitting the jobs section as well. How awesome would it be to be a part of the team that creates such a useful service.

Well, one thing led to another, and here I am, putting my best effort into my work, making many mistakes and learning new things all the time, continuously building Flatfox together with passionate people, who simply care. It’s been almost two years now, and it feels more and more like home.