The concept is not exactly new; it's basically a hostel. Maybe it was less common in North America until now?
Hostels aren't generally people's housing though they're temporary lodgings while travelling.
Bunk bed is $1,200 a month, privacy not included
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#52I lived 3 months in Hong Kong in a cubicle bedroom of www.appledorm.com
4 years ago it costed something like 450 USD per month.
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#53I turned down an internship in Palo Alto because the least expensive temporary (< 12 mo) housing I could find in the Bay area was a bunk in a "hacker shack" for ~$1k/month. The mortgage on my 4/2 house in Mississippi was <$500/mo. The person who offered me the job laughed when I told her about the wild discrepancy in costs of living and said several potential interns and employees over the years backed out for the sa…
The salary should have made up for the difference in cost of living.
I guess they don't feel like they need to pay more if they have a big pool of potential interns all willing to live in a hostel for $15k/year
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What once was old is new again. Does this also mean it is a "step down"? Because it looks like it is. Aren't we supposed to be better off than we used to - with all the efficiencies of market economy and technological progress that is...
We are way better off. Just live somewhere else. You can rent a nice house in Ohio for less than half that much [1]. Progress doesn't subvert the laws of supply and demand. [1] https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/apa/d/cincinnati-stunning-...
And for me, $1200 a month is my entire mortgage payment, property taxes, insurance, and upkeep on a 1500 sqft house, in a pleasant neighborhood, surrounded by pleasant urban area. In an area that has a large number of corporate headquarters for companies that everyone has heard of, with access to a number of 6 figure jobs.
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#55What 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.
I recently moved into a co-living space in Madrid and really enjoying it - I can see it becoming much more popular in the future. The social aspect for someone like me who moved to a new city is huge.
Living in a bunk is a different story - I've stayed in my fair share of hostels and honestly the worst part about a shared room is the snorers (even with ear plugs etc.)
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#56What 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.
A key difference: I don't think it was as common to be "co-living" with complete strangers (though maybe I'm wrong on that). Sharing a room with someone you're pretty familiar with is a much different experience.
Um... College dorms are pretty common and that's coliving with (usually) a complete stranger.
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#57cnn is an assault on your browser. The header bar bouncing up and down as it chases your location, the video auto playing top right, the marketing overlay asking for your email to send market insights, the cookie acceptance bs at the bottom. All wrapped up nicely in 443 requests, and 19.1MB of data. I CAN NOT STAND the web anymore.
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.
I can't test it at work, but I wonder what adding a Pi-hole winnows the bits down to.
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#58This reminds me of the coffin hotels in Neuromancer / one of the Gibson cyberpunk novels, although the real-life version is decidedly less cool (and probably more comfortable.) In any case: if the cost was lower, I personally would find this somewhat appealing. A private bed and storage space in lower Manhattan for say, $400 a month, would actually be a decent deal. You'd have to be extremely minimalist, but that wou…
>Add a VR system to each pod and you won't even notice the lack of space I think they probably would notice, on account of not being able to sit up, stand up, move their legs enough to simulate walking, move their arms more than a few inches...you get the idea. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy VR and think it's fun, but I don't understand how people get optimistic about its potential for palliating overcrowded conditions.…
I was thinking more of a Neuromancer-style VR, movement controlled with a joystick.
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#59I actually built a couple of "micro-cabin" prototypes that I was going to place on some land I have in Colorado near a couple of trail heads.
They were basically solar powered bunk-beds. Each "room" was 48"h x 54"w x 96"l, had a 36" "porch" and would have a locking door that used 4G to reset the code on check-in, a window, a mini heater, a foam mattress and a shelf. I never made it past building the prototype in my garage, but I've always loved the idea.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What once was old is new again. Does this also mean it is a "step down"? Because it looks like it is. Aren't we supposed to be better off than we used to - with all the efficiencies of market economy and technological progress that is...
> Does this also mean it is a "step down"? Because it looks like it is. Why is living with other human beings considered a "step down"? Most people in this so called "modern" age are horribly lonely.
Its a step down because you are forced into it.
50 yrs ago you could decide to do it, now its pretty much decided for you.