Housing

Before I get into this I got to say my own personal experience hasn't been that bad, and I'm hardly miserable in the Czech Republic. At most, I'm just a bit annoyed at the lack of logic or common decency in some of the things I've heard and observed in situations where an entitled Czech person whether they be a bar owner, apartment owner, or some other kind of authority seriously took advantage of foreigners.

Finding an apartment itself is a major ordeal as many forums that are meant to be directed at foreigners are in fact in Czech :p Many expats a have tried to ban together posting on community portals, but the these threads are generally painfully out of date, and simply aren't active enough to give you quality information. Some expats have even taken to being real estate providers, and there is usually a marked difference in how much easier the contract creation and quality of apartment is. The only drawback is that it tends to be on the pricier side of an intern's salary. A common thing to do is go through a Realtor who will charge you one month rent as his commission on top of you paying the deposit and first month rent to the owner.

Once you've found a place and you're moved in Czech real estate owners are super SHADY to their tenants! I've heard too many stories of how someone goes on Christmas vacation, but leaves the keys to their flat for their friend who needs a place to crash, and that friend getting promptly thrown out by an angry owner the next morning, for not being on the contract, in the snow with all of 15 minutes to gather their stuff; or getting no recourse or restitution when a tenant is kicked out on a whim, because the owners want to renovate less than a month after a tenant moves in (shouldn't the owner been giving at least 2 month's notice for something like this, not taking on a new tenant.) These are such huge "wtf, I've been robbed" levels of shady that I would be shocked to hear in even the most money grubbing cultures.

Thankfully that's not the case for me. My owner is a super sweet grandma with a granddaughter who was born and raised in the US (so I get double sympathy from her for being a foreigner and American), and speaks English fairly well, which is why my flat mates choose her place to begin with.