In New York city, rents have become so unaffordable that people are paying to live in communal living spaces- you get a small bedroom to yourself while sharing a bathroom with one other person, then share a living room, a kitchen, and a gym with the rest of the building. You get a shelf in the refrigerator that you share with four other people, and a small locker to keep food in. Amenities include WiFi, breakfast once a month, and a weekly cleaning service. In all, you share this stuff with 23 other tenants for the low price of only $2100 a month.
The building in the story has four stories- six people to a floor. Each floor has a small living room and kitchen, three bathrooms, and six bedrooms. The basement has a laundry room with three washers and three dryers, as well as a small gym with a few workout machines.
When I was broke and young, I had roommates. What gets me here is both the price and the fact that these are people in their middle age years doing this. The guy in the story is 33 years old, and isn’t facing some new temporary situation like a divorce. He is choosing to live like this because he likes “the vibe” of living in New York city.
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C · August 28, 2024 at 8:42 am
Got to love mass migration, dem programs, and real estate speculation.
BobT · August 28, 2024 at 9:26 am
I rented a place similar to that in college – shared bathroom with 1 other person, and shared kitchen with 3 other people. Could never keep food in the fridge – hungry college students. Back then we were all working our way through college. No handouts. I was alot thinner then.
Barry-O's Cereal · August 28, 2024 at 9:38 am
Property is theft, you didn’t build that.
Get in zee pod und eet zee bugs.
Your comrade hovel has nothing in it!
Si se puede.
IcyReaper · August 28, 2024 at 10:55 am
And folks keep saying that .GOV will force people into the 15 min city prison hives! Why force them when they will do it voluntarily? For the vibes? WTF….
Skyler the Weird · August 28, 2024 at 1:46 pm
Back in the 80s I was living in suburban DC with four poor GS3 roommates @$1200/mo rent. We had co-workers in the same complex with 8 roommates. Four worked days, four worked nights. I can see doing whatcha gotta do to live in the big city.
TCK · August 28, 2024 at 4:06 pm
Demonrats have spent decades doing everything in their power to bring back as many Jim Crow laws as possible, is it really much of a surprise that they want tenement homes too?
Birdog357 · August 28, 2024 at 5:08 pm
$2100/month to live in a dorm room as an adult? What hell world have I landed in?
wojtek · August 28, 2024 at 7:59 pm
You ain’t seen nothing yet. These “microapartments” don’t go below 74 sqf. In Poland there already were proposals of enclosed “apartments”, without any communal space, as small as 25 sqf – 2.5 sqm! And there are desperate people who will buy them.
Sailor Paul · August 28, 2024 at 9:09 pm
In the last 3 months, my employer’s warehouse and local office in Brooklyn have had a homeless camp of decrepit RV’s start showing up on the street outside. Guys, scumbags mostly, are living in the RV’s, crapping and pissing in buckets, and dumping the buckets in the sewer. It’s starting to look like Johnny Mnemonic. Since RV’s have a single stair and a narrow door to get over and through, and 90% of NYPD now being morbidly obese women of color, it’s not like they can question the guys if they don’t step outside, so the cops don’t stop. The neighborhood smells lovely now that it’s 90+ degrees every day.
Gryphon · August 29, 2024 at 5:14 pm
Bugmen. Living in Pods and Eating zee Buggzz….
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