... that my place was just too small.

For the last 3 years we've been living in a single room 30sqm (~323sqft) flat. It's on the top floor of a 11 story building and has a magnificient view, but still 30sqm is just not enough for two (and a half).

The other problem is that shared between the two of us we have to drive around 160km (~100miles) ... per day. Resulting in over 3000km (~1864miles) per month or 36000km (~22370miles) per year. That's a lot of gas - and not very "green".

So in October last year we wanted to change that. Easier said than done, since our budget for the change was around -200 Euros, yes, that's minus 200 Euros. We were already overspending, but that's a different story.

And we wanted to change it big time. Not just doubling up to 60sqm (~646sqft) and two rooms or tripling to 90sqm (~969sqft) and three rooms. No,

• we wanted big.
• And we wanted to fix the driving problem.
• And we wanted to fix the overspending.

So what did we do?

We decided to change it.

If you decide to achieve something and you go after it, you will succeed. That's a basic rule of the universe.

(And you can quote me on that!)

Yes,

• we spent 9 month looking at
• thousands of offers online and
• checking about 200 candidates,

but in the end we made it.

In three weeks we'll get the keys to our new loft.

• It has more than 4 times the old size (>120sqm, ~1292sqft).
• It has more than 4 rooms.
• It saves us around 100km (~62miles) per day, that's over 1900km (~1180miles) per month or 22800km (~14167miles) per year.

Oh and I nearly forgot. (If we combine the slightly higher rent with the saved driving costs and "other" stuff, e.g. uneeded external storage)

• It saves us >300 Euros per month.

And all we needed to do was

decide what we wanted an go for it.