I lived in one of these for 3 years. It wasn't too bad but only because I happened to have a room with a very tall ceiling (easily 3m) and was young. Think of i

I lived in one of these for 3 years. It wasn't too bad but only because I happened to have a room with a very tall ceiling (easily 3m) and was young. Think of it as a small studio with a shared kitchen and bathroom, or a better variant of a dorm, except your neighbors are mostly hostile to you, and some of them are alcoholics. Another saving grace was that it was 10 minute leisurely walk from the university I was attending at the time. How people raised families in the worse variants of these I will never know, thankfully. The only real snag was, I eventually had to move my fridge into my room, because neighbors would steal my food otherwise. Not because they didn't have their own, but because of "Soviet mentality" where private property wasn't really respected, and everyone stole what they could. This is the period of my life I recall when some latte-sippin' macbook pro totin' millenial here in the US tells me that socialism wouldn't be too bad.