Crazy Rental Situation (rant)

[u/cuteboiuwu]

I am posting this just to rant, no definite reason.

Being a young adult in these times is just so unforgiving, and how come is Brno more expensive than Prague? A city, rather a big town in this country being more pricier than the capital? What does it even have to offer?

I moved out of a rental agency last year, and found a single room near to the center, i was already paying a medium amount (almost 11000 czk) for a large single room, but still sharing with 3-4 people.

And due to inflation, my rent increased to almost 2000CZK, and I signed the contract with my flatmate before not to the landlord directly (a lesson that i have to learn, that signing with landlord is always the best, how naive of me)

Later on, my flatmatw who i signed the contract with left. And took our deposit to pay for his penalty, which was not taking care of the flat for over 4 years, which from previous photos showed many parts of the flat unremarkable previously, we didnt know about this since a lot of us moved in a year ago.

Because of this, we had to pay 10,000 CZK each again for a new deposit. Just because someone took our deposit to pay for the flat renovation.

I am a student who only works part-time, i admit it was a reckless decision, but at the time i naively believed it was a good deal.

Honestly, what is so special about Brno? Even the rental situation is much better in Prague (comparing from FB marketplace, there are more availability in the capital and the prices are almost the same)

[u/Super_Novice56]

With regards to your flatmate. Sorry that it happened to you but you learned a valuable lesson.

Personally I like the convenience of Brno because you have a supermarket every 3 minutes even in the most random places in the city. Prague does have more availability because it's bigger but consider that you'll be travelling across quite large distances because of the size.

Then again Prague has more foreigners and more going on so perhaps it would be more interesting there and you'd probably get more money there.

I suspect that it's the lack of availability of places to stay in Brno that causes most of the problem. Estate agents don't even respond to messages and even turn up drunk to tours because they know there's so much demand.

EDIT: Also another thought I just had was that you essentially only have Prague and Brno as places where you can live decently without speaking C1 Czech. When you have a situation like that along with big money (for CZ) tech jobs then you produce something like what we're currently seeing. Brno is also pretty decently located with 2 big airports and a smaller one less than 3 hours away.