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[ratcreature]

Looking at the Worst Room Tumblr just now (a blog that posts photos of horrible rooms and small "apartments" for rent in NYC at outrageous prices) makes me feel so much better about my place.

Also, of course I knew that fictional depictions of supposedly crappy NYC apartments in tv series and such always make them vastly larger than they would be in reality (perhaps because you couldn't actually fit a professional camera larger than an iPhone, the person operating it, and a person being filmed into an actual crappy NYC apartment from the looks of these photos so you'd probably have to stage them and leave one wall out that you don't see or something), but these are just astoundingly awful. Like, many seem to be either windowless closets rented as bedroom for several hundred dollars or some sort of crawlspaces repurposed for sleeping in, that are too low to stand or even sit.

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[marag.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's NYC for you. I'd say that the apartments you see on TV are often bigger than some of the nicest apartments in NY, which are still fairly small!

For example, I absolutely covet my sister-in-law's parents' place on Riverside Drive overlooking the Hudson. Beautiful view, great location, bedrooms smaller than the ones in our house, and a small galley kitchen.

It's beautiful and I'd love to have it if I had a spare few million dollars, but it's much smaller than the average apartment you see on Law & Order.

I love New York, but I'm glad I don't live there :) My brother-in-law's apartment cost $1.2 million. If we'd bought our current house at the time he bought the apartment, it would have cost about $350,000. (We paid less than half that.) And we live in a suburb of Washington, DC, which is expensive too.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I realize the market both for renting and for buying in places like NYC is crazy, but honestly, even the historical practice of bedsharing by hour in overcrowded cities might be a better solution than having to live in a tiny crawl space in the cellar's boiler room, which is what some of these photos look like...

[marag.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine living in one of those, even if I was single! I don't love the city that much. I'd move to the suburbs :D

[ratcreature]

Yeah. I mean, I'm a city dweller and can't really imagine living in a suburb or in a rural area, especially since I don't drive, but there are some minimal standards I have for my living space. Like being able to stand in it, lie down for sleeping, basic sanitation, and some natural light. A place to cook and at least minimal storage aren't all that optional either. I could perhaps stretch to give up my comic collection to reduce my storage needs, but I'd still need a shelf or two.