Quite a nice place to live in.
Pluses:
- Perfect location, buses to and from city center nonstop, easy connection to Pasila and Viikki
- Arabia shopping mall is small and perfect, all shops you need (lidl, smarket, ksupermarket, tokmanni, alko, faunatar...), but a 15min walk
- Saunas are great and cozy
- Huge lift for easy moving in/out
- Enough space in storage room and nobody complaining about theirs being taken
- Ventilation system is good
- Laundry rarely breaks down
- Cool parties with Väinö Auerin katu, friendly neighbors
- I actually like the linoleum floor being orange, and in the bathroom yellow walls are also quite cozy
- My apartment has a window in the bathroom.
Minuses:
- Buildings 20 and 21 are considered one, so laundry is located only in 20 and bio-cardboard-paper garbage point only near 21 - irritating for both
- The architectural decision to make a glass corridor was definitely a stupid one, side windows are either closed during summer or forgotten in winter, so it's either freezing or like 45 degrees there
- All apartments have huge toilets for no reason
- Smoking area is right next to sauna and entrance, so poor folks who live next to it
- Bicycle storage is big, but the parking area has no roof, getting the bike inside in bad weather is irritating
- Building 20 has a Vekarakirppis, it gets full of children, and I can imagine the noise being loud for the floor above it
- Cold/Hot, Noisy
Some complain their apartments being cold in winter and hot in summer - haha.
Before I lived in Väinö Auerin katu, and there it was sometimes 16 degrees in the kitchen in a winter morning, although peaceful and quiet. I got accustomed to being cold.
My apartment is a rare one and the coldest one. The corner of the building, a big balcony, a window in the bathroom - and only 1 small battery. 17-19 degrees it is.
Street sounds are very loud, windows get dirty with road dust, sunlight only in my bathroom in the summertime.
But hey, in the summer I'm chilling out!
