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The shape of the decision

I meant to buy a flat in my second year here. Then life had other plans. A hard stretch I won’t lay out in full — climbing out of something, mostly — then a year of just making things stable again, then a year given over to the language.

A feed to think with

The first night I got access to move.nl I spent four hours reading apartment listings and went to bed at one in the morning. The feed was “filtered” — budget, a couple of postcodes — but filtered the way a firehose is filtered when you put your thumb over the end.