I think that you can get a lot of the benefits by being smart about organising your work and social life. You don't need to sleep in the same place as other co

I think that you can get a lot of the benefits by being smart about organising your work and social life. You don't need to sleep in the same place as other cool people to work/hang out with them. Crappy living conditions seriously diminishes quality of life and productivity (and those photos seem to indicate a pretty crappy place)