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It's not a population of people we want to see growing in the US. As somebody who just moved into a 140sqft unit a few weeks ago, ouch. I moved here because I
by subway 11y ago
It's not a population of people we want to see growing in the US.
As somebody who just moved into a 140sqft unit a few weeks ago, ouch.
I moved here because I'm a single person and had a 1000sqft house filling up with garbage from Amazon.
I spend my days working with my awesome distributed team from a coworking space, my evenings getting to know my new neighborhood and city (while playing an awful lot of pinball), and my nights in a small but quiet and comfortable apartment.
My rent (including utilities/internet) is less than my previous Midwest mortgage, which is less still than the savings I'm seeing in tax burden from my previous city/state.
- roymurdock 11y agoSounds like a good change from a lifestyle/place/cost of living you were not completely happy with before. The proliferation of this type of housing indicates a problem in that many more people are forced to live in these situations. They, unlike you, do not have the financial stability to choose to purchase a house/take out a mortgage/start a family etc. I recently graduated and decided to live out in the suburbs in an unconventional living situation to avoid paying a ridiculous rent in the city for a tiny space. Definitely not trying to make a value judgment on the way people should or shouldn't live. Just concerned that the economic freedom to choose how to live and be happy is eroding.
- ghaff 11y agoI don't completely disagree but it also seems as if we've also seen an increase in people who feel that their life isn't complete unless they live in one of a handful of urban cores. Recent graduates living in really crappy conditions in Manhattan because they couldn't imagine living in Queens was a thing decades ago. Now we're seeing it in places like San Francisco and Seattle.