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Bunk bed is $1,200 a month, privacy not included

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Re: Bunk bed is $1,200 a month, privacy not included

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Post by alekratz »

smabie wrote: post #7
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #2

There are literally prison cells in some parts of the world that are more appealing than this...

Being able to walk outside seems like a plus. $40 a day for a bunk bed, tv, and food sounds very reasonable to me. And you can move around whenever you want.

Maybe if you can fit your life in a backpack. That's a serious limiter.

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Post by pjc50 »

pnako wrote: post #3

The concept is not exactly new; it's basically a hostel. Maybe it was less common in North America until now?

Not at this price, though. A symptom of housing and job market dysfunction; do all the high-paying jobs really need to be co-located in the same few cities?

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Post by Miner49er »

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #9
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #2

There are literally prison cells in some parts of the world that are more appealing than this...

There are? Where. Also, it doesn't matter. You can't leave prison. That's the main problem with it, not how poor or nice the finishes are.

Prisons at least allow visitors.

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Post by asdfasgasdgasdg »

Humdeee wrote: post #4

If this had a bit more satire to it, it could absolutely pass for a beaverton article. Privacy means a lot to me. Assuming it's not winter time, I'd honestly prefer going home to my own tent in the forest over this.

I'm sure many people would, but there is a distinct lack of forests and camp grounds in downtown San Francisco. There's a reason you see these things popping up in big city centers as opposed to, say, the Buffalo Peaks wilderness area.

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Post by reaperducer »

What once was old is new again.

The fad we call "co-living" today has been common for most of the nation's history. You can even see examples of it in old movies, books, and TV shows.

But now that it's got SVVC money behind it, it's somehow shiny and new.

Although the "pod" angle seems new, it's not. Though, it was almost exclusively for the very very poor in the past.

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Post by smnrchrds »

Humdeee wrote: post #4

If this had a bit more satire to it, it could absolutely pass for a beaverton article. Privacy means a lot to me. Assuming it's not winter time, I'd honestly prefer going home to my own tent in the forest over this.

For the uninitiated, The Beaverton is a Canadian satire news site, similar to The Onion in the US.

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Post by jlengrand »

pnako wrote: post #3

The concept is not exactly new; it's basically a hostel. Maybe it was less common in North America until now?

From the article :

> Although PodShare may seem a lot like a hostel (bunk beds in a shared room, for example), the company prefers to call it co-living.

:)

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Post by Miner49er »

overcast wrote: post #10

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Yeah, the web is unusable at this point without an ad blocker IMO.

With uBlock Origin on Firefox I don't have any of that and it's down to 5.29 MB.

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Post by excursionist »

reaperducer wrote: post #15

What once was old is new again. The fad we call "co-living" today has been common for most of the nation's history. You can even see examples of it in old movies, books, and TV shows. But now that it's got SVVC money behind it, it's somehow shiny and new. Although the "pod" angle seems new, it's not. Though, it was almost exclusively for the very very poor in the past.

Now we can install cameras to track all of the tenant's movements, and play ads on those slick little monitors installed in the beds. We've come so far.
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