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India cycling super power edition 

> CX races

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25.01 UCI World Cup Hoogerheide CDM
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07.02 Superprestige Middelkerke - Noordzeecross C1
08.02 X2O Trofee Lille - Krawatencross C1
14.02 Exact Cross Sint-Niklaas - Waaslandcross C2
15.02 X2O Trofee Brussels - Brussels Universities Cyclocross C1
22.02 Internationale Sluitingsprijs Oostmalle C1

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17.01 - 19.01 Santos Tour Down Under 2.WWT
18.01 Women Cycling Pro Costa De Almería 1.1 WE
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24.01 Gran Premio Castellón - Ruta de la Cerámica 1.1
24.01 - 26.01 Challenge Majorca WE
25.01 Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana - Gran Premi València 1.1
25.01 Schwalbe Women's One Day Classic 1.Pro
27.01 - 31.01 AlUla Tour 2.Pro
28.01 - 1.02 Challenge Majorca ME
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29.01 Surf Coast Classic - Men 1.Pro
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 >>/59933/
But I am trying to get better and fitter, not die of malnourishment

Anyway, I am a bit progressing
> not drinking flavoured sparkling water anymore
> switching from wheat products to wholegrain
> eating breakfast (mostly just yogurth with some musli)
> eating some proteion powder with yogurth
> eating more ham than before
only thing i cant get rid of cheese
i love cheese so much it's unreal


 >>/59935/
This is all good but you need to eat more vegetables. Also cured meat is not amazing. Cheese is GREAT though, but please buy good ones. 
At the end of the day, meds were right about food: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_diet


 >>/59934/
Yes it is true, adding some animal products like low fat dairy, fish and poultry is probably not bad for your health, but undoubtedly so for the environment. In the end it is just easier to get all the nutrients you need from plant-based options.
 >>/59935/
You will not die of malnourishment bert. But what you are doing is good, save for the ham thing (red meat is not good for you) and cheese (eating less sat fat would be good for your heart health)

 >>/59939/
> it's easier to reach your macros when you have less options. 
This argument always baffles me. Also I'd be curious to see where you get your b12. I understand this can be good for people going from full shitty red meat with process food to actually eating vegetables, but fish and poultry are basically unbeatable when it comes to protein. 
Also talking about environment I'd like to see your "local" diet as a finn in winter





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 >>/59940/
B12 you get from a supplement pill, everything else you get from plants. I find it strange that in general vegan diets are talked about as needing "careful planning" to meet adequate micro- and macronutrients, while similar discourse is never aimed at omnivorous diets despite most omnivores failing to meet the recommended daily amounts of fibre, vitamin E and potassium among other micros.
>  I understand this can be good for people going from full shitty red meat with process food to actually eating vegetables, but fish and poultry are basically unbeatable when it comes to protein
This has been studied quite frequently in recent years, and despite broscientists preaching about "inferior plant protein", outcome studies show that there is no difference in outcomes for muscle building between vegans and meat eaters when the total amount of protein is similar. E.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33599941/ Moreover, there is much data that replacing animal protein with plant-based alternatives is very good for reducing mortality: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32658243/ The effect is pretty shocking: "Replacement of 3% energy from animal protein with plant protein was inversely associated with overall mortality (risk decreased 10% in both men and women) and cardiovascular disease mortality (11% lower risk in men and 12% lower risk in women). In particular, the lower overall mortality was attributable primarily to substitution of plant protein for egg protein (24% lower risk in men and 21% lower risk in women) and red meat protein (13% lower risk in men and 15% lower risk in women)." It's very easy to get 1-1.5g of protein from plant sources simply by eating lots of lentils, beans, tofu and grains.
> Also talking about environment I'd like to see your "local" diet as a finn in winter
I made no claim whatsoever that I would eat a "local" diet. While not irrelevant, the environmental impact of where the veg is produced is lesser than eating meat, even when shipped from the other side of the world. Moreover, cattle/pigs/chicken also eat imported grains&soy which could have simply been eaten by humans.
 >>/59942/
Heh, the emissions are inconsequential, especially since almost all of the electricity here comes from either nuclear or renewables.

 >>/59945/
> Moreover, there is much data that replacing animal protein with plant-based alternatives is very good for reducing mortality
> observational study from the US
This cannot be serious, you're basically doing liberal vs conservative life expectancy.

 >>/59946/
Yes, I and the researchers are perfectly serious. Do you think that you know of some magical confounding variable that would invalidate the results that the best biostatisticians did not come up with? The results were robust between different subgroups and with various different control variables.




 >>/59947/
Yes I would argue that doing study about food in the US is completely meaningless for European people, even more so some observational study where social background and origin has massive correlation. 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12001975/, here is a study in UK that shows no correlation. There are others and the results seem to be the same.


 >>/59951/
"Completely meaningless" is pretty strong. Social background and origin are at least partly controlled by control variables.
The study you posted is not as nuanced as it simply compares group mortality and does not analyse the foods themself. In any case, I do not know how it is in France, but most everywhere in the world the national nutritional guidelines advice eating very little meat, especially red meat, limiting saturated fat intake to >10% energy intake and emphasizing healthy vegetable oils rich in PUFAs, eating only low fat dairy in moderation, and eating a very plant based diet in general. Probably the biggest thing is simply eating more vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds and abstaining from red meat and animal fats in general. That's probably where most of the gains come from. But for planetary health, I don't think there is any argument for the current meat-based food culture, it is simply unsustainable.





 >>/59953/
Also to reiterate with these vegan studies is that people in western countries are vegan for a reason and it's often motivated by health concerns, which makes any observational study very hard to read.

And yes, in general people eat too much of everything except not enough vegetables which I'm not disputing. Still think that any claim that a vegan diet is better than a mediteranean diet is wrong.












 >>/59954/
The only reason red meat is not recommended is because fat fucks eat all the fat on meat instead of cutting it off or using lean cuts.
Red meat is totally fine, the fat is not.
But gotto keep it simple for normies as they don't understand nuance.














> "We got off to a good start," said the Dane, who saw Brennan and Filippo Fiorelli get off to a flying start. Brennan even ended up with the fastest time at the first intermediate point (after just under a kilometer), Fiorelli second. "The plan was to go all out right away. That worked out, but it was clear that was a bit too fast for Matthew and Filippo. They lost time in the second part of the prologue. That's a shame. The other guys also did a decent job."

these guys used to be the smart ones






















































































Aw shit, it is KASIA burger who wins the stage, not not Bertollo. It was early morning when I was looking at the results, me eyes still barely open.
Also thank you for your service Suissebert, watching the Tour the Poo so we don't have to.




alright just watched a 5 minute highlight of the stage, fucking lund man. That was the 102 point question because I had lund and wanted to fit tim tom instead of an 8 pointer so lund had to make way for a 12er.



 >>/60089/
For me the 102p question was Vernon, would have wanted to have him + two 4p shitters instead of 3x6p shitters but oh well. Didn't imagine Lund would be better than 5th but the Decathlon train looked really good.


> Flu cases are rising again, and there's a chance this year's flu season will be more severe than in previous years. A variant of the flu is already being reported in Great Britain as the "superflu." Hospitals there are full of patients, and there's considerable concern.
Uh oh Bertacekbros








 >>/60100/
I've had it a couple times, really sucks. Strong fever, strong muscle aches, and you feel like all strength has left your body. Even more miserable if you have a small baby in the house that demands constant attention so you can't just sleep for the whole day.
 >>/60099/
Godspeed bert. Ramp or longer test?
























 >>/60124/
A desert race in the off-season on the other side of the globe. It's not worth more than a .pro race in Europe.
It's good for him to farm some small wins so he can get some experience and results in order to grow as a rider.





























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 >>/60152/
they once followed a pro indoor rower for a tv show here and that dude ate 8000 calories a day
- giant bowl of protein yoghurt and blueberries for breakfast
- bunch of sandwiches and bananas after morning training
- 5 eggs + some more bread for lunch
- protein shake with afternoon training
- for dinner some giant bowl of rice and chicken + veggies
- 2 hours later another similar bowl
- another bowl of yoghurt before he went to bed

but almost no fats, but such a sickening amount of food I wish I could post the screenshots here but the website blocks it












I get Horner's point of send the full superteam to the tour and try to beat him but he has to see that it's stupid to not try and pick up wins where pogacar isn't riding.
They're paying these guys gorillions and if their tridente gets kwabbed in the tour, which is very likely, then it will be embarrassing as fuck.
I don't even think they can beat vingo with perfect teamwork


 >>/60167/
these guys also would never work together of their own volition as we've seen last year and team management doesn't have the balls to tell someone like roglic or remco to fully work for someone else so if the tridente were to show up at the tour you would have 3 runners with "free roles" doing their own thing aka being retarded and almost losing podium to lone wolf with no team ONLEY, for no gain at all kek















How the FUCK is Harry Sweeny third here. Where is Buitrago and FFB. I mean Yatesi, Vinester and Narvaez are not that strange, but then Gal Glivar and Zambanini... At least Kron is doing somewhat good

















 >>/60202/
I never found eating a lot semi-cleanly that difficult. Imagine a ride with a 6h ~4500kJ ride for a total of around 7000kcal expenditure. I would usually eat a 1000kcal breakfast of bread with jam and quark. Then for the ride, 100g of carbs per hour for 600g/2400kcal sugar. Some big recovery meal/late lunch – today I ate a big tuna-rice bowl for 1000kcal, would have no problem extending that to 1600kcal. That's 5000kcal right there, and 2000kcal is easy enough to get from dinner and an evening snack (yesterday I made some veggie ragu and pasta for 1000kcal for example). Add some fruit juice with the meals for even easier energy.





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Barely 4 (You)s, that was terrible business venture.
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Anyway, can't wait to see the Australian race, that is surely gonna start live for european audience very soon

what the fuck is that top 10 hahahahahhahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA nice """sport""" lmao I can't, I can't
vinepickers chose soul and loyalty over logic and I appreciate that they get rewarded








Just watched the race. Love VINE. Dude is a beast, super strong, very based. Tough as nails. 

His form looks great, probably could've put another 30s into chasers if he didn't have to tow Narvaez. I think he will consolidate race win on Willunga, can't see Jhonny following on that climb


 >>/60208/
How about you vibecode it into a real shitty skill game. You just keep moving to the right. At the beginning the green signals are long, but they keep getting shorter. If you miss the green signal too many times another train from behind will ram you or you will get fired for holding up traffic. and passing through red is a game over.
Later you can add some shitty bonuses like keep the signal red or combos and achievements like maxing out waiting time and trein breaking down from time to time.
Imagine the ad revenue you can make if you'd release it as free game on mobile platforms. Don't forget to pay me royalities from coming up with this idea and treinbert as well, as this is his life story.


















 >>/60233/
> Bennett felt the symptoms in mid-November but believes the condition "was underlying for quite a long time".

> "It's not a given, but it's possible that I was having many episodes going into sprints because I always felt something in the sprints and I couldn't push," he said.

> "I would go into a sprint and then I'd be fine and I'd go to get off the saddle and I wouldn't be full of lactate, but I'd have to sit back down and it was just super strange.

> "I don't know if it's the same for everybody or if it's different (heart) chambers, but my top two chambers were beating twice as fast as the lower two chambers. They said it is possible that in the sprints, the top two start going into AFib, then you lose 30% of the pump, the pumping power. So then you do lose that performance.

sam bennett casually saying he thinks he's been having mini heart attacks in sprints for a while. lmao





































You are aware that you can simply drink from a glas like a civilized person. You are at home bert, you don't need to use a bidon. You can also wear a team jersey at home, nobody will judge you.


























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Did 394W for 20min this morning, new personal record and 23W increase compared to 5 weeks ago. I guess I could've done a couple watts more but the pacing is quite tricky. I hope I can add 15-20W still in the winter+spring through some dedicated vo2max efforts and more training volume.



































you pick riders who should do well and they suck for no reason while riders you dont pick and who shouldnt do well at all because they always suck somehow do well, again for no reason








 >>/60327/
how's the blumenkohl (cauliflower) schnitzel? with some cheese it's really delicious. but after having Frankfurter Schnitzel, there's no going back. I need the green sauce to go with it to make me forget that it's not a real Wiener Kalbsschnitzel.





























 >>/60369/
too bad lipo doesn't have the strength of character to start drama, betray or go against the directive. You'll see them riding together until one of them drops due to fitness gap

HOWEVER German state TV interviews Lipo and whoever else Bora sends after every single stage and last year they were taunting Roglic like crazy once it became clear that Lipowitz was outperforming him so we're potentially in for JOURNO RAGEBAIT KINO

















































































 >>/60454/
the froomedawgs of the peleton started taking eat seriously (the french and south americans lag behind for 5 years) the era before that didn't eat at all
the stories I read from Boonen and Gilbert where they do 5 hour training rides on just water are insane, all their weakness was compensated with dopage



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 >>/60455/
mhm yes true there were cases of eating but it took until the late 2010s for eating to be everywhere and in every training, runners were still doing low eating and no eating training rides in the mid 2010s and some shit teams didn't do full eating in races even in 2018 (UAE lol) 
to get to the point where everybody who is pedaling any halfway decent power for more than 5 minutes is eating as much as they can, that took until the 2020s imo




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I've always been confused by all that because I don't get why they don't realize that things like that don't matter at all when your ftp is what is lacking. What does improved fat burning at lower wattage matter when your ftp is 50w below where it has to be to be competitive. If I were such a runner's coach I would dedicate any and all training to ftp increasing, all that efficiency min-maxxing can happen once the w/kg is there and only then.

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Someone give me a little portable electric air pump for Christmas. The thing is heavy and brick-like (not really appropriate to stick in saddlebag or in jersey).

I thought it was broken because it was taking so long to inflate tire the first time I used it, but no, apparently it just takes forever to actually inflate a tire.

I guess I'll keep it in my car in case I get a flat...









Ryan Wedding, former olympionic in snowboard or something, has been aprehended by the FBI. He was earning an honest living as a mafia boss or something and was on Top 10 most wanted.
Is there any former ciclist who went similar way? Besides the great Rohan DENNIS, ofcourse.
































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> Medical examination later revealed that the Ecuadorian champion suffered multiple stable compression fractures of his thoracic vertebrae.

> Teammate Vegard Stake Laengen also had to leave the race. The 36-year-old Norwegian may have suffered a broken rib.


























 >>/60529/
 >>/60530/
hookless hate is overblown because we've had even more escaping tires from hooked rims
of course hookless is straight out of the talmud since there's only gain for the manufacturer no it shouldn't exist but the problem persists either way and isn't fixed by adding tubes either interestingly enough

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> The Belgian Public Prosecution Service is warning that scammers are active, pretending to be the Belgian King Philippe or the head of the intelligence service. They are trying to convince people to transfer money through phone calls and text messages. The thieves initially targeted people who know the Belgian king well, hoping they would fall for the swindle more quickly. But now business executives are also being approached. They then receive an invitation for a video call featuring an AI version of the king.
Lelgians are falling for this en masse
























































 >>/60584/
yeah what the fuck where's global warming at why does winter still exist? I rode the road bike for the first time since mid November I think and fuck me it sucked, way too cold and some people (more like snowmen) have it even worse. Sick of winter



























 >>/60613/
It is one of the classic Winter Olympic sports Bert, it is not like it is CX or something. And until the 1990s the Norwegians have dominated that shit. I guess they spent their dopage on skiing the last decades but now they are BACK



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_record_progression_5000_m_speed_skating_men

The 60th world record ever. I count 26 times Norway. Using dopage ever since 1890








































> Dumping snow, trapped inside
> Can't ride
> 9/11-sized disaster of a Velogame to start the season
> Country about to erupt in civil war
> Dry January still has six days left
This is hell













































































 >>/60735/
common practice up there from what I've seen, seems like a shit winter/spring training camp location to me because it's actually full on winter up there so you have to drive up/down the mountain with a car and can't really ride at altitude 
even when the roads are dry it's cold, idk man there's gotta be something better




 >>/60738/
but they also do not need the altitude buff to be competitive and the lessers do 
for teams like UNO-X they want to peak for the omloop period because the others are still in hibernation
after that it's hoping you can win a stage in a GT from the break



Sometimes I wonder why some of the richer teams don't do a two months winter camps in New Zealand or something.
Too bad it's 15000 km away and despite gigantic mountains, there aren't really any passos.


 >>/60739/
You add taxes to bare prices, you add tips to the cost, you add shoes to your height measurement, you add extra points to your touchdowns, you add Whopper to your Whopper, adding extra to the air temps makes sense, it is just useless if you're not in the open in sustained winds.

We know what a barbecue is, we just don't like it, especially don't like the fall of bone silliness and BBQ sauz.
But a gryll of a kiełbasa, blood sausage, chuck, bratwurst? Yes please!





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A friend loaned me his ISM saddle so I could try it. Didn't even use any bibs to test it, just normal clothing, but based on 5min of riding damn is it comfortable to hold an aero tuck all of the sudden. With the big cutout for your soft tissue, it basically eliminates any discomfort you could have and puts your hips in a really forward position at the same time. With the hip rotation, I all of the sudden would need a 3-4cm longer stem to be comfortable and not cramped.  I might need to try this out some more, if it's comfortable for longer stretches and I can put out good power then this would really prove useful for racing, especially the flatter ones.
Pic related for reference, I am not even trying to hold an aero position, just what comes naturally after the saddle rotates my hips like that.





 >>/60750/
yes exactly the reach demand grows a lot as your back is more flat and you can also ride a lot more drop very comfortably if wanted.
However road bikes are not made for this and it's a problem, you're forced to ride a super long stem even if you don't ride a forward saddle position and that has some negative effects.
Imo road bikes are way too short even for normal saddles but with forward rotated hips it gets really bad. I call it the Fred Issue because even race bikes have geometries that first and foremost want to be short and tall enough so people can ride upright without much strain because the vast majority people who buy these bikes are too unfit to ride in any other way.


 >>/60755/
Yeah for my normal fit I already have a 13cm stem, a 16-17cm one would be quite bad for cornering etc. Factor One and Ridley Noah Fast would be closer but even they are a bit short. Maybe converting a tt frame into a road bike could work.






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> converting a tt frame 
I thought so too at first but found that there's a BIG misunderstanding of the geometry charts because we just see the reach value and think 'that's a big number' but forget that the seatpost angle is steeper and the reach value does not take that into account.
The top tube is actually not really longer than normal (ridley noah fast) or even shorter than normal (most if not all tt bikes). You gain from that if you ride the saddle slammed forward on a slacker frame and want to go even further but if you don't there's no reach gain. 
A mate of mine converted pic rel. for the road bike Kotl race and while 442 reach sounds like a lot the top tube is actually in the realm of most ~56 cm frames. With the same length stem his reach to the bars was identical to his 56 cm tarmac, just with a way more open hip angle because the saddle tip was almost over the bottom bracket












































 >>/60763/
Hmm, thanks for the info. I will have to take a closer look. I definitely don't think I need that 75+ degrees of seat tube angle, much slacker is sufficient as long as I use the ISM seat. For a more normal seat, I need to open the hip angle a lot more by pushing the seat forward.
 >>/60762/
Very good now that it's winter, cool and dry. In the summer it was quite humid and I had to use a dehumidifier all the time.
 >>/60766/
I've always used the 612R so a slightly different model, but many different ones should work well. It's a great design!










Ok, the puckmoonenfilms (good to see that the word filter is doing its work) thread is gone and dead.
Other than that please pay attention, we're past 900 posts, so don't get stuck

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We have an annoying sickness in my family, wife has had a flu for a few days, running a small temperature with a bit of a sore throat, runny nose, the usual. The kid and I don't have any fever, not really runny nose or clogged up sinuses, just a small funny feeling in the throat and bad sleep (had to wake up 6 times last night due to the daughter crying). Tried riding easy for 2h and legs were fine, but the throat felt a bit funny. Now debating whether I should just ride my usual harder ride tomorrow or not.


40 km to go down in the United Arab Emitrates, the emirati pro peloton is summiting the penultimate passo, the legendary passo KoM.
Then it's all downhill until the slopes of the mythical Al Suhub Mountain.
4 brave souls currently at the tete, but with just 80 seconds, they are doomed to be caught.




















Also CHRISTEN is retarded on GC starts, I would find use for his 20 points but there is simply no one to lose to especially if the UAE juice is as good as it looked on VINE and NARVAEZ.
Psyop me.

















> The Portuguese Anti-Doping Authority (ADoP) has imposed long-term suspensions on two cyclists: Venceslau Fernandes (30) and Rafael Silva (35). Fernandes received a six-year suspension. Rafael Silva, who has since retired, received a four-year suspension.







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In other non ciclismo related news the snow lead to complete infrastructure breakdown in my area and that's really pathetic tbh. In the morning everything was slow which is to be expected but in the afternoon everything was moving at snails pace crawl with lots of chaos, cars getting stuck trying to get in and out of parking spaces and shit.
I've shoveled snow for a total of like 60 minutes today, I have never shoveled snow before. 'tis the season innit





 >>/60866/
This shit became an ice storm when it crossed the border.
Not on my turf, but it did.
And being a homeowner is all nice and shit, still thinking about it, but constant repairs and duties around are a big luxury tax.
A flat? Just pay the bills and you're good.



 >>/60874/
> roof needs a beam inspected
> gutter leaks
> a cable is dangling
> lightning rod is squeaking
> Big Mold under the windowsill
> a crack started to form between the window and the wall
> paint is starting to flake
> basement has some type of mositure related persistent issue

I don't know honestly, whenever I read pros and cons from homeowners the "always something to do around the house" is a staple.


 >>/60875/
mhm there's always something to do but doesn't mean you can't just ignore it
the trick is to budget in the major stuff and get it in order when you buy the home
I'm glad I got my little piece of land when I did because when I look now it's pretty much over for people in my income range, everyone's getting outpriced



 >>/60877/
Yeah, I may be too old to get a home and enjoy it, having kids even now means I will be a full time chauffeur and teenager headache solver in 15 years at around 55, I will have to start having doc appointments meself regularly after another 5, I will be already slowing down and ignoring more and more stuff so there enjoyment/chore zero sum game will be going the wrong way.
I am thinking obviously about a nice location for the house, not some suburb shitcube with all the cons of a city with very few pros of a city, no pros of outside town.
Plus exactly, this shit is so expensive now, unless I write some magic trading bot that will literally print me money on Polymarket - for my IT wage it is still rather stupid, will have to be fortified with bad loans.
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I do have a magical neighbor situation right now, two empty flats, two sweet old ladies, an older couple, my longtime acquaintance neighbor who once a while throws a tame party with music and loud laughing for two hours, the worst is a family with older teenagers but it is because of their stupid dog they can't control, little shit is quiet most of the time but when he smells someone or goes down the staircase it is mad barks all the way.
This luxury of no neighbor problems is a rarity though.

I did find a nice house yesterday THOUGH, but it is over 500eurok and judging by zero interior photos - complete repair needed.
It is in one of those rare locations when you're actually well in the city but the view is great, the neighborhood is sparse and you have almost a guarantee nothing else will be built in a way that will block your quasi-country experience.
And the public transport stop is not that far away.










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