No he estado en Londres ni seis años pero ya he estado en más de diez direcciones. Decidí parar de contarlas en la undécima. Hubo un momento en el que iba a uno de esos lugares en donde hay que notificar el cambio de dirección, y la mujer del mostrador me miraba con incredulidad: “¿Es esta su dirección permanente?” “Permanente o no permanente, es la única que tengo”, pensé. “Sí lo es”, dije.
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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Housing precariousness
I haven’t been in London for six years yet but I have already been in more than ten addresses. I stopped counting on the eleventh. There was a point where I would go to one of those places where you have to notify about your change of address, and the woman at the desk would look at me in disbelief: “Is this your permanent address now?”. “Permanent or no permanent, it is the only one I have”, I thought. “Yes it is”, I said.
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