u/420throawayz

I know this seems like a troll question but it isn't.

My concerns with buying is the commitment because what if end up not liking it? What if an annoying neighbour moves in some years down the line? I lose the flexibility of escaping that situation per se.

Renting seems more practical in some way but paying rent then having to bother with this and that is annoying. Plus, in France if your file isn't good looking they don't take you into more expensive apartments. They take you based on your salary only and other irregular sources of income aren't taken into account.

I know I know, apartment life carries the noise of people. I've lived all my life in apartments, I grew up in an apartment, I'm well aware of it.

E ainda há muitos tugas que amam este conteúdo a dizerem que é triste o que se passa em Portugal. 🤡

A circle-jerk where these little communities over reddit, discord, twitter, turn into the oppressors they claim to detest. Shame to communism and shouldn't call themselves communists, it's quite sad that a lot of people's first contact with marxism/communism nowadays is with the internet. Terrible representation of the values. Most people I've encountered on the internet since I joined the JCP (Portuguese Communist Youth) are literally petit-bourgeois adults who live with their parents, don't work, don't do praxis and barely read theory, induce others into error and consistently creating sub-strands of communism and doing nothing but endlessly debating amongst themselves without pushing for any real change. Really, what's the point? I rarely RARELY see any ""leftist"" properly engage with people who are clearly uneducated but open to learning, instead it's all reduced to attacks like the fascists. It's a disgusting cynical way of seeing the world, you're not the carriers of hope, you're the carriers of yet another type of cancer that plagues this society. Do better. You're supposed to.

I live in a home, in a very residential area. This specific neighbour has one time called me out for "walking too close to his property" (mind you, I was just passing by I didn't stop foot near his property just the sidewalk on the opposite side of his house). When he did this he wasn't even outside he just randomly walked out and called me out. I found that weird and did some digging and observation and the guy has two motion sensor cameras that are pointing out into the street and every time someone or something crosses it blinks and gets activated. What can I do about this? I know it's illegal for cameras to record public spaces like this.

From EU, France, unfortunately, I had to move away from my apartment in a rush and now have to be at my in-laws, won't get into many details. They have extremely good wifi but they don't have the ethernet cables in the walls so my only option is to buy a network card for wifi.

I'm gonna use it for gaming (deadlock and val which I know wifi isn't the best for but it is what it is) and work. I would prefer not something above 50 euros because I'll be here 1-3 months...

Moro na França e a semana passada sofri um ataque homofóbico, ao mesmo tempo, um jovem numa outra cidade também e acabou por morrer. Sinceramente, não sei o que fazer. Não sou ""visivelmente gay"" ou algo do género, por isso, nesse quesito nem sei o que prevenir. Quanto a métodos de auto defesa é tudo ilegal aqui...

Folks, I lurk on this subreddit a lot, especially because this last month I've been having a neighbour from downstairs who is literally mentally ill (not a joke the agency said he's mentally ill and old so they can't kick him out like that). Mate bangs on the walls and screams loudly at 2-3AM.

I've been a downstairs neighbour before and I had issues with my 1st neighbor but I never complained because it was within the normal hours. The guy was extremely overweight and would physically shake the apartment, it was an old apartment. Then we had a young girl, skinny, who somehow stomped harder than the last guy and would throw parties on week days until 2AM. That's when I complained.

All of this context to say that some of you just don't know how to behave in communal settings. That's it. Some people are just not equipped for that sort of living. Renting is NOT owning.

If you're not ready to take responsibility for obeying the law and not making extreme noise past quiet hours nor do you have the decency to respect the lease line that says you'll respect the peace and quiet enjoyment of one's living spaces then that's on you, not others.

Yes, there are some folks on here who make a nightmare out of a common situation (a dog walking around or common household noises) but some of you, which is quite a lot of you actually, give excuses to the most inexcusable things like listening to music for hours at a time blasting it. Shouldn't it be common sense that you shouldn't do that?

Respect others and you'll be respected. Most basic and childish knowledge that some people seem to lack. This whole witch hunt behaviour on this subreddit towards downstairs neighbors is insane. If your downstairs neighbors complain, try to talk with them and even invite them to switch positions for a bit to see if it's you who's actually the problem or just the building.

Já ouvi dos dois lados gente a dizer que são seguros e juram por isso e outros a dizerem que foi a pior encrenca em que se meteram e que perderam acesso à conta do nada. Qual é o veredito do sub?

Basically me and my boyfriend were walking in a good neighborhood and heard homophobic insults directed at us from 3 guys coming our way and making jokes. We felt super uncomfortable and scared. It's so fucked that we both try to present as masculine and do everything to not ""be seen as queer"" and even then... It sucks. Why can't people just leave us alone. We don't even hold hands in public to avoid shit like this.

Em Portugal, durante a minha juventude fiz parte da JCP. Por vários motivos, deixei de me rever no partido, maioritariamente pela sua abordagem insignificativa e pela falta de luta concreta, a meu ver.

Sou de acordo de que maioria dos comunistas, figuras públicas, são os que conseguem manter uma linha coerente de pensamento e que não se desviam do que falam, mas às tantas torna-se repetitivo.

Aqui na França, é a mesma abordagem, o mesmo "modus operandi" é uma repetição infinita de slogans e frases que me fazem comichão. Por vezes, parece que os partidos comunistas da Europa (pelo menos dos que tenho melhor conhecimento, Portugal, França, Alemanha e Espanha) não querem abrir-se ao mundo, mas fecharem-se cada vez mais num ""circle jerk"".

O que há de mudar? Vocês concordam com os atuais modos de atuar? Se sim, o que explica então a caída de votos e participação no geral?

Basically, up until I was 20 I had no issues with my erections then I had varicocele, had to have two surgeries for it and my erections were never the same even when having sex. I told my urologist about this and he said that at my age, 23, there's nothing pathological there and that he recommended me taking this for a while to "regain my courage"? I was a bit confused but then saw a LOT of posts about it on here, I had never seen it before, is it really that good? Is it worth the try?

https://www.reddit.com/r/portugal/s/18I0FeFH3t

Basicamente o título. A agência ligou-me hoje a dizer que iam enviar uma pessoa da segurança social amanhã para fazer um check à pessoa. Isto já acontece há anos e literalmente todo o prédio já se queixou da mesma pessoa. É um homem com problemas psicológicos e às vezes para de tomar a medicação.

Sinto-me injustiçado. Porque é que a agência não revelou estes detalhes previamente?! Parece algo bastante importante que não devia passar batido.

Fico triste pela pessoa, claro, mas nós também não podemos sujeitar-nos a não ter qualidade de sono NENHUMA o que piora a nossa vida e até já tem influenciado as nossas estatísticas nos nossos empregos, sim, dos dois...

A agência disse que se fosse o caso de o expulsarem teriam que ter assinatura de todos do prédio, o que seria fácil já que toda a gente se queixou previamente, mas que o processo demoraria meses até anos.

Infelizmente, é muito provável que tenhamos que nos mudar e encontrar outra coisa.

Enfim, pelo menos sinto-me validado em que é um problema recorrente e que não sou só eu a "fazer filmes" visto que os outros inquilinos também se queixaram.

I made a post here some weeks ago, now deleted. I entered in contact with the agency and basically the guy is mentally ill and probably isn't taking his medications again (from what they said to us it's a delicate case that's been happening for nearly 2 years with good and bad periods).

My sole thought it... how the fuck could they have kept this from us? I know they can't reveal people's diagnosis and such but like seriously, they had previous and current tenants complain about him and no soul thought of informing us about it?

They say they'll try to find us a solution and come with social services next week but I honestly think it's bullshit and they'll just drag it. Either way, these cases of mentally sensitive people take ages here to get solved. Of course, I don't want this person to be evicted but the person clearly needs help. It's also impossible for us to sanely live in an apartment where a neighbour consistently screams at 2-3AM.

Trying to understand, as someone who's always lived in apartments one thing that I definitely want to do is own a house. No matter how good an apartment is I could never see myself buying an apartment to live in and have to deal with the randomness of life and possibly get a dickhead neighbour in the future. To the people that have bought their own apartment, is this a concern of yours or not at all?

The large majority of posts here complaining about noise upstairs have people defending stompers. What's the reason? Legit, most of these posts are telling you that they understand that NOISE exists in apartments, point, period, finito. But it's one thing to be walking around your house during normal hours and another to do jumping jacks at 1AM or be running from bedroom to bedroom.

"Não há consumo ético dentro do capitalismo." é uma frase da qual sou adepto... no entanto, pergunto-me se isso estica-se para além disso.