I am no longer SDF (sans domicile fixe - homeless)! After a solid week and a half of spending six to eight hours looking on about twenty websites, making calls, and being told that the person who answered was sorry, but the apartment in question had already been rented, I finally found a place. I was sitting in my favorite café in Vieux Lille called Soficcino that offers free WiFi to its patrons. I love Soficcino because it has an upstairs with a counter that overlooks Rue de la Monnaie, a very busy and charming cobblestone street in the Old Town. I also love the ambiance - dark wood, quiet conversations, and music from the twenties, thirties, and forties playing in the background. Anyway, I was a week and a half and several hours into researching
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