Bruno is dismayed when he sees where he is going to live because it is in such contrast to his lovely house in an interesting and exciting part of Berlin.
Whereas Bruno's former home was in an established neighborhood in the city, this house near the Polish border is completely isolated and on a desolate piece of land, but his house in the city was surrounded by others with streets to traverse that had fruit and vegetable stands emitting all sorts of smells. This new house is much smaller and seems to Bruno to be "the loneliest place in the world." As if all of this is not bad enough, there is no one for Bruno to play with and his friends are all back in Berlin. He tells his mother, "I think this was a bad idea," but she tells Bruno that they do not have the "luxury of thinking."
Without doubt, the new house could not be more different from the house that the family has moved from in Berlin, and Bruno's feelings about it are equally as disparate.
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