In the UK, we call that an average sized flat. If you are in London/Oxford/Cambridge you would more than likely be paying over £1000 a month for it.
Try living in 120 sq ft. Lots of people in the UK are doing that through necessity.
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I am choosing to live on an Earth that isn’t crowded, and that choice makes all the difference!
Obviously not something I would want to do with a family (and probably not even with a partner) but I think for living alone, I could take a really tiny apartment. I need a couch (which I can sleep on), a TV in front of it, a reliable internet connection, a private bathroom and air conditioning. Peace and quiet and relative safety would also be nice. I could do without a kitchen if I was living in a big city.
The trade off of all these tiny places is that they are in the middle of huge cities and all that a huge city has to offer. It’s much easier to just not be home that much in Manhattan than it is in Tulsa.
London is of course notorious. Housing there is even more expensive than Oslo, which is hugely more expensive by every other measure. I think @BdgBill’s point, though, is that you could always move to Hull and get affordable housing at the cost of everyone in England making fun of you all the damn time.
I live in a high-density, high-location area of Chicago. I’d rather have a small condo full of IKEA furniture and a 15-minute walking commute than a house outlying and three hours in transit every day.
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Not to mention the commute in Tulsa is easier if you live outlying, as there is less traffic. Big cities are nightmare commutes from far out.
What earth is that, and where do you work?
Regular sized furniture is too big for lots of smaller homes. Manufactured houses (double-wides) may have more square footage, but because the rooms are odd sizes, Ikea furniture works great, especially the bookcases.
The one where personal borders are reconsidered, if I’ve followed them correctly.
The one in the Sol system. It was me again joking about how people seem to feel “entitled” to not have crowded cities, and the more compact living which results.
I would like to think that I work where ever I may happen to be! But if by work you mean employment, then I am not employed.
Yes - aren’t they always? Borders seem to not exist on their own, they are continuously negotiated.
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Yes, I believe they are.
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