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Well OK, but that goes somewhat against my parent comment who was trying to show that things were worse then!
by tome 9y ago
Well OK, but that goes somewhat against my parent comment who was trying to show that things were worse then!
- ido 9y agoAt least in Vienna and Berlin a lot of modern small 1-2 BR apartments are the same apartments that 100+ years ago housed a whole family (or 2!). For example we (2 adults + 1 toddler) live in an old 70m^2 (750 square feet) apartment that's built in a way suggesting it originally housed 2 families in the 2 large rooms (what we now use as 1 bedroom and 1 living-room) and shared the kitchen/bathroom. So it is very likely 8+ people lived here, and it is now considered small for the 3 of us. The apartment building is from either the late 19th century or early 20th century. I imagine a lot of these tiny "single-person" apartments in Paris used to house a lot more than 1 person 100+ years ago.