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> European apartments are often missing things the rest of us consider *part of the apartment* - closets, bathroom cabinets under the sink, KITCHENS, etc.
This is not Europe-wide. TTBOMK renting unfurnished apartments is not much of a thing in e.g. Poland. My interpretation (which I didn't try to refute) was that it's much more of a thing in places where not owning your abode is considered fine by the society (which is not necessarily the same as common). The "lamps do not come with a flat" was _very_ weird for me (and for my parents, and all the friends who also moved, etc.) when I moved here.
(Similarly, communal washers/dryers is something that I've never seen in Poland, apart from student dormitories.)
