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Bunk bed is $1,200 a month, privacy not included
- whywhywhywhy 7y agoThere are literally prison cells in some parts of the world that are more appealing than this...
- smabie 7y agoBeing able to walk outside seems like a plus. $40 a day for a bunk bed, tv, and food sounds very reasonable to me. And you can move around whenever you want.
- alekratz 7y agoMaybe if you can fit your life in a backpack. That's a serious limiter.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoThere are? Where. Also, it doesn't matter. You can't leave prison. That's the main problem with it, not how poor or nice the finishes are.
- Miner49er 7y agoPrisons at least allow visitors.
- sokoloff 7y agoPrisons allow visitors because prisoners generally can't leave. It's a much better deal IMO to be able to leave but not have visitors come to you.
- astura 7y agoHave you ever actually visited someone in prison? I have and I'd say meeting up in a coffee shop is infinitely preferable. You can only go there during a specific time. You have to go through a long screening process that might involve taking off undergarments for inspection so you have to get there early. You awkwardly sit in a room with the inmate at a table being constantly watched. You only get a small amount of time with them. It's not really very "social."
- el_cujo 7y agoNot in their pods, er I mean cells.
- blackearl 7y agoScandinavian prisons look like a pretty good time.
- Unit-336 7y agoGerman prisons as well I'd say.
- user_50123890 7y agoAre those prison cells located in the center of a very desirable city though?
- pnako 7y agoThe concept is not exactly new; it's basically a hostel. Maybe it was less common in North America until now?
- theriddlr 7y agoThey remind me of coffin apartments in Hong Kong albeit with communal areas.
- pjc50 7y agoNot at this price, though. A symptom of housing and job market dysfunction; do all the high-paying jobs really need to be co-located in the same few cities?
- jlengrand 7y agoFrom the article : > Although PodShare may seem a lot like a hostel (bunk beds in a shared room, for example), the company prefers to call it co-living. :)
- pradn 7y agoHostels are fairly common in major cities in North America. In the US, they usually run for about $50 a night. This place is similar in cost, really, but meant for longer-term residence. US hostels often restrict how long you can stay with them (a few weeks or a month.) I suppose that's to comply with housing laws.
- TBurette 7y agoIt is a hostel but they use a fancy startup/VC vibe to sound cool. You can make a reservation online for a single night for $40-$50. So yes it is a hostel. Same caveats as every hostel apply : reduced privacy, snoring, you can end up with indelicate people and you have to watch out for theft. I went to a hostel that opened recently in France that looked very similar (no TV in the beds but a curtain you can close). In fact they also called the beds 'pods'. The difference is that it only cost 18€ a night.
- rtkwe 7y agoHostels aren't generally people's housing though they're temporary lodgings while travelling.
- Humdeee 7y agoIf this had a bit more satire to it, it could absolutely pass for a beaverton article. Privacy means a lot to me. Assuming it's not winter time, I'd honestly prefer going home to my own tent in the forest over this.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoI'm sure many people would, but there is a distinct lack of forests and camp grounds in downtown San Francisco. There's a reason you see these things popping up in big city centers as opposed to, say, the Buffalo Peaks wilderness area.
- smnrchrds 7y agoFor the uninitiated, The Beaverton is a Canadian satire news site, similar to The Onion in the US.
- cik 7y agoNah, it's totally different. It has beavers.
- mosselman 7y agoWhy is there no door on this? Wtf?
- mjlee 7y agoI do wonder if you're allowed to at least install a curtain...
- overcast 7y agocnn is an assault on your browser. The header bar bouncing up and down as it chases your location, the video auto playing top right, the marketing overlay asking for your email to send market insights, the cookie acceptance bs at the bottom. All wrapped up nicely in 443 requests, and 19.1MB of data. I CAN NOT STAND the web anymore.
- Miner49er 7y agoYeah, the web is unusable at this point without an ad blocker IMO. With uBlock Origin on Firefox I don't have any of that and it's down to 5.29 MB.
- a_wild_dandan 7y agoI can't test it at work, but I wonder what adding a Pi-hole winnows the bits down to.
- LeoPanthera 7y agoIt's a good test for your ad blocker though. I got none of those things you mention, so I guess it's working pretty well. (I use AdGuard for Safari configured to use the EasyList lists.)
- omarhaneef 7y agohttps://outline.com/cZ468j https://outline.com/cZ468j
- rchaud 7y agoThey have a minimal text-only version that's much better: http://lite.cnn.io/en http://lite.cnn.io/en
- reaperducer 7y agoWhat once was old is new again. The fad we call "co-living" today has been common for most of the nation's history. You can even see examples of it in old movies, books, and TV shows. But now that it's got SVVC money behind it, it's somehow shiny and new. Although the "pod" angle seems new, it's not. Though, it was almost exclusively for the very very poor in the past.
- excursionist 7y agoNow we can install cameras to track all of the tenant's movements, and play ads on those slick little monitors installed in the beds. We've come so far.
- capdeck 7y ago> What once was old is new again. Does this also mean it is a "step down"? Because it looks like it is. Aren't we supposed to be better off than we used to - with all the efficiencies of market economy and technological progress that is...
- IanDrake 7y agoWe are way better off. Just live somewhere else. You can rent a nice house in Ohio for less than half that much [1]. Progress doesn't subvert the laws of supply and demand. [1] https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/apa/d/cincinnati-stunning-3-bedroom-2-bath/7033258278.html https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/apa/d/cincinnati-stunning-...
- derekp7 7y agoAnd for me, $1200 a month is my entire mortgage payment, property taxes, insurance, and upkeep on a 1500 sqft house, in a pleasant neighborhood, surrounded by pleasant urban area. In an area that has a large number of corporate headquarters for companies that everyone has heard of, with access to a number of 6 figure jobs.
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- black6 7y agoI turned down an internship in Palo Alto because the least expensive temporary (< 12 mo) housing I could find in the Bay area was a bunk in a "hacker shack" for ~$1k/month. The mortgage on my 4/2 house in Mississippi was <$500/mo. The person who offered me the job laughed when I told her about the wild discrepancy in costs of living and said several potential interns and employees over the years backed out for the same reasons.
- izzydata 7y agoThe midwest looks better every day.
- keiferski 7y agoThis reminds me of the coffin hotels in Neuromancer / one of the Gibson cyberpunk novels, although the real-life version is decidedly less cool (and probably more comfortable.) In any case: if the cost was lower, I personally would find this somewhat appealing. A private bed and storage space in lower Manhattan for say, $400 a month, would actually be a decent deal. You'd have to be extremely minimalist, but that would be a feature and not a bug for the right audience. Add a VR system to each pod and you won't even notice the lack of space.
- Someone1234 7y agoWith some minor privacy/security tweaks, I agree. Most "coffin hotels" are better than this without consuming more space.
- wgerard 7y ago> A private bed and storage space in lower Manhattan for say, $400 a month It would likely be similarly priced to the article, i.e. closer to $1200/month. I think that's the real downside of things like this: They're offering a pretty steep discount compared to what it would cost to, say, rent a studio in lower manhattan, but not a steep enough discount that it would be affordable for someone making minimum wage. It seems like a poor alternative to just having roommates and living in Crown Heights, is what I mean.
- keiferski 7y agoJudging from the image in the article, the space isn't very well-designed. Something like Japanese pod hotels are far more space efficient and would probably let you fit 10 pods in the space of two bunkbeds.
- wgerard 7y agoThat would likely be illegal, for example in NYC an apartment must offer 80 feet of space for every tenant (so those 10 people would need to have a 800 sq ft apartment). Sure, easy to skirt around if you're just an individual landlord, much less so if you're a company openly advertising it.
- Stubb 7y agoHow much extra for access to the maggot-burger dispensers?
- el_cujo 7y agoI could maybe see doing something like this if it was $300/month cheaper and each pod had a retractable door, almost like those Japanese capsule hotels. I get that in a space this small you aren't going to have much privacy, but to not have any sort of divider to block in the bed space seems over the top. Maybe the idea is that if people can close themselves off, they're more likely to do something like play their music too loud or watch stuff on their computer with the volume too high versus if there is no divider they'll be more conscientious?
- saalweachter 7y agoFire code, I assume. You put a door on it, now it's a room, a bedroom at that which requires two exits in case of a fire. Hang a curtain, it's just an overbuilt loft bed, furniture, invisible to the fire inspector.
- prpl 7y ago$1200/mo - bed, breakfast, and farts from the guy who loves garlic noodles and craft beer.
- jplayer01 7y agoI could live with a small pod-like space to sleep in. But everything about this is just ... insufficient or terribly designed. It would take nearly nothing to add privacy for everybody - do people not masturbate in the perfect idyllic world that these people inhabit? Have they never heard of people waking up at different times? Do none of these people have partners? If I wanted a quasi-military living experience, I'd go join the military. Slightly worse furnishing, but all the cardio I could want. It also wouldn't cost me $1200 for just a bunkbed.
- duxup 7y agoI remember (I want to say it was Google) who had a hand in some apartments where you at least got a bedroom. I couldn't help but think that it's a system that encourages "young workaholics without any outside life (especially no families) need apply" kinda setup.
- giorgioz 7y agoI lived 3 months in Hong Kong in a cubicle bedroom of www.appledorm.com 4 years ago it costed something like 450 USD per month.
- jermaustin1 7y agoI actually built a couple of "micro-cabin" prototypes that I was going to place on some land I have in Colorado near a couple of trail heads. They were basically solar powered bunk-beds. Each "room" was 48"h x 54"w x 96"l, had a 36" "porch" and would have a locking door that used 4G to reset the code on check-in, a window, a mini heater, a foam mattress and a shelf. I never made it past building the prototype in my garage, but I've always loved the idea.