"club space" in America is a nightmare, yes. You forgot to mention the neighbors not liking you and making trouble. But hacker spaces in particular do exist, us

"club space" in America is a nightmare, yes. You forgot to mention the neighbors not liking you and making trouble. But hacker spaces in particular do exist, usually on a small budget, and they make it work. Not impossible. For that matter, the hacker space Noisebridge in San Francisco houses a large collection of data books and other often dated technical books. If you need to find the paper, they are a reasonable place to go and look.