This isn't anything new: it was known in the USSR as "kommunalka" (communal apartment) and everyone unlucky enough to be stuck with one as a living arrangement

This isn't anything new: it was known in the USSR as "kommunalka" (communal apartment) and everyone unlucky enough to be stuck with one as a living arrangement wanted to get out. I'm really amazed at the willingness of Americans to try again tge worst of Soviet lifestyle.