Things I Don't Like About Living in Didsbury

• All the traffic noise coming in the open windows right now (but see forthcoming post on Things I Like)
• The Sirens: Particularly the house alarm of the people across the street, which went off for about 45 minutes yesterday.
• The Horrific Exchange Rate: Everything has the same price tag, it's just that it takes two dollars to make one pound.
• The Refrigerator: Only fractionally larger than the one I had in my college dorm room. Seriously. And the coldest temperature setting keeps things only barely below spoiling temperature. I have to put my pop in the freezer for 1/2 an hour+ to get it cold.
  
• The Washer/Dryer Combo: 3X as long to wash 1/3 the clothes and an irritating squeaking noise (but see forthcoming post)
• The Bed: Hard, lumpy, and is missing a sheet. And with pillows from 1982. What's up with that?
• Odd Pinky-Maroon Carpet throughout the flat. In addition to being odd and pinky-maroon, every last speck of everything shows on it, driving me to vacuum with an OCD kind of frequency.
• The Persistent Smell of Old Curry emanating from the flat, probably due to aforementioned carpet. Luckily once you get inside you can't smell it anymore.