This 3-bedroom apartment in Russia is for sale for $940, the price of an iPhone

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/25/this-3-bedroom-apartment-in-ru.html

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Like a timeshare, but cheaper and 100% share.

Complete with palm trees!

Also slightly more northern latitude.

Tons of personality! Make it your dream home!

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:thinking: I feel like there’s a catch somewhere… Hmmmm

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yeah but how many avocado toasts is that…

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Price of apartment: $940

Price of heating it in the winter: $ eleventy billion dollars, every winter

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Hmm…what is the R value of the thinnest possible concrete construction?

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No lion, not buyin’.

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The kicker is that only two journalists were thrown out of it’s window. Quite a bargain I say.

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It’s like buying some former meth lab in Detroit. You would spend a lot more than $940 before the house is livable.

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How’s the wifi?

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Wasn’t that the setting for this documentary?

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It probably has

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Does that include international shipping?

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One of the local reindeer for your sled? That’ll be $250,000. :wink:

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let’s all chip in a dollar and get snowden a dacha

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Location, location, location.

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Detroit is closer. And probably warmer.

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Came here to make that very jokeservation. Beat me to it. :crazy_face:

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Sundays temperature in Vorkuta: high of -14 low of -18. With 91% humidity - so you’d be snug as a bug in a rug.

Hmmm…what temperature does Vodka freeze at?

Meanwhile:

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