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There are homes without a kitchen? Honest question, it's as absurd as if you told me that there are houses without a toilet
by tomcooks 5y ago
There are homes without a kitchen? Honest question, it's as absurd as if you told me that there are houses without a toilet
- strken 5y agoSROs often have no kitchen and don't allow hotplates etc., but allow microwaves, rice cookers, and similar appliances.
- riffraff 5y agoForgive my ignorance but what does "SRO" mean? I'm not an English native speaker and google is useless for acronyms unless you have context.
- buck4roo 5y agoSingle room occupancy. A type of hotel, with shared bathrooms down the hall. Here's an article from yesterday's NYT that has a historical background section about halfway down: When No Landlord Will Rent to You, Where Do You Go? https://nyti.ms/33ZiTKV https://nyti.ms/33ZiTKV
- tomcooks 5y agoSRO? You can cook in microwaves and rice cookers, no?
- maccard 5y agoCooking a meal from fresh ingredients in a microwave seems like a pretty Herculan task to me, as someone who cooks every day
- chrisseaton 5y agoYou’re on a real let-them-eat-cake roll here.
- Broken_Hippo 5y agoMicrowaves are known for making it easy to cook a complete meal for a family of four, right? Especially the small ones that are common in hotel rooms? And you have to afford a rice cooker and have a way to learn to cook with it. Maybe you have internet, but maybe your phone just broke. Poverty simply means you live without things. I lived for some years cooking on burner plates because I couldn't afford propane/natural gas (different houses). I also didn't have hot water. If my electricity got turned off? No warm food. There are a number of rentals that do not come with appliances. "You can use what is there, but if it breaks, I'm not replacing it" happens a lot too. Maybe you can rent one, maybe not. You can probably carry a rice cooker home if you don't have transportation, but not a microwave (easily, anyway)
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoIn Western Europe it's not super usual to rent or buy property without a kitchen and you having to furnish it yourself.
- mhitza 5y ago> you told me that there are houses without a toilet There are plenty of low cost apartment buildings with shared toilets and no bathtub/shower. That's when a gym membership might be necessary at the very least. Except in covid times when you weren't allowed to use the gym's shower facilities.
- wsc981 5y agoIn Thailand (and I imagine other SEA countries) there are plenty of condos without kitchen. But buying some food in a small shop or stall or some street-food is cheap enough anyways.
- nly 5y agoI've stayed in places in New York with only the tiniest of kitchen areas. I'm talking so small that you can only store a few plates, cutlery items and snacks. Maybe some bread. Perhaps a microwave. No room for a fridge, cooker, or anything else.