New York micro-appartments

[DGuller]

300 feet apartments are micro?  Thousands of families in HK have homes far smaller than those.

How can they all breathe in there?

[Siege]

Don't forget your multipass and to put your hands on the yellow circles.

[Siege]

[Capetan Mihali]

"Single Resident Occupancy" dwellings are as old as the industrial metropolis (plenty of SRO/welfare hotels left in SF today at least), but I guess it's new for aspiring yuppies to seek them?  Though in the 1910s an aspiring clerk in New York would almost certainly be lodging in a rooming house (the boarding house being mostly antiquated by then.)

[Capetan Mihali]

The late 70s and early 80s were a period of incredible reduction in the amount of private SRO rooms available in NYC, as development on the Upper West Side and East Village took place.  It's often overlooked in accounting for the massive rise in homelessness in the 80s.  The welfare hotel as such really only took place after a ton of these buildings had been converted into expensive apartments, and the remaining hotels could be rented at extortionate prices to the city to house e.g. AIDS patients in the late 80s.

[jimmy olsen]

My apartments about that size, but it costs 500k won a month (and the school covers 450k won)

[Martinus]

This is not micro. 300 square feet equals 30 square metres, which is pretty much an acceptable studio flat in bigger European cities for a single person. A bit on the small side but people actually are often happy to live in stuff like that. 

The flat I live right now in is only about 1/3 bigger than that.

[Martinus]

The demographic this would appeal to probably can't pay $2000 a month.

How so? This is NY. A white shoe law firm starting salary is around $80,000 a year. It's targeted to people like that.

[katmai]

This is not micro. 300 square feet equals 30 square metres, which is pretty much an acceptable studio flat in bigger European cities for a single person. A bit on the small side but people actually are often happy to live in stuff like that. 

The flat I live right now in is only about 1/3 bigger than that.

[Martinus]

This is not micro. 300 square feet equals 30 square metres, which is pretty much an acceptable studio flat in bigger European cities for a single person. A bit on the small side but people actually are often happy to live in stuff like that. 

The flat I live right now in is only about 1/3 bigger than that.

If you measure the size as relative to the weight of the occupant, rather than measure it in absolute terms, our dwellings are probably similar.

[Barrister]

The demographic this would appeal to probably can't pay $2000 a month.

How so? This is NY. A white shoe law firm starting salary is around $80,000 a year. It's targeted to people like that.

I'm pretty sure those kinds of apartments are not targetted at white shoe law firm associates.

[katmai]

If you measure the size as relative to the weight of the occupant, rather than measure it in absolute terms, our dwellings are probably similar.

Not really Marti, in most places outside of NYC the smallest apartments are at least double the size of that place.

[Eddie Teach]

If you measure the size as relative to the weight of the occupant, rather than measure it in absolute terms, our dwellings are probably similar.

Not really Marti, in most places outside of NYC the smallest apartments are at least double the size of that place.

So double the size of the fat joke. 

[katmai]

If you measure the size as relative to the weight of the occupant, rather than measure it in absolute terms, our dwellings are probably similar.

Not really Marti, in most places outside of NYC the smallest apartments are at least double the size of that place.

So double the size of the fat joke. 

Considering I live in a place three times  that size it would be triple.

[Martinus]

The demographic this would appeal to probably can't pay $2000 a month.

How so? This is NY. A white shoe law firm starting salary is around $80,000 a year. It's targeted to people like that.

I'm pretty sure those kinds of apartments are not targetted at white shoe law firm associates.

I was talking about trainees.