The apartment is very central, just a minute from Taksim and İstiklal. I chose the apartment because of the location close to my school.
There were no problems in the apartment: bathroom, heating, refrigerator all worked as they should.
The layout of the apartment is not optimal: the living room seems added to the apartment, and the cold gets in through the windows. Sleeping on the couch in winter is a cold experience - in summer it is no problem.
Also the apartment doesn’t have a table or a desk. This was no problem the first month or two, as I did my writing and reading in cafes, but it would have been nice to have the opportunity to work from the apartment after a couple of months in cafes.
Right next to the apartment is a school and a schoolyard. The windows from the living room face the schoolyard, and the sound from the school is quite loud.
The neighbour upstairs has a cat that gets up early. From the adjacent apartments you can hear everything from the neighbours, and they from me. The noise didn’t bother me, because I sleep well and am not bothered by noise, but take it into consideration if you are noise sensitive.
The laundry dryer had some problems, so for some weeks I had to find other solutions, but it was solved, and I could wash again.
I didn’t cook at home. Kitchen is small, but clean. There are not many kitchen tools in the kitchen, but as I didn’t cook, this was no problem.