But seriously it is. I'm seeing 30 and 40 somethings advertising for roommate shares increasingly. soon my future. Waiting for mens workhomes to come back so I can play poker and drink hooch for 20$ a night.
Amazon company towns are probably like 10 years away. That south park episode about it feels too accurate.
"But they'll be on Mars this time, so it's different." -Techbros
Coming up with a semi-standard method of subdividing, say, a 3500 sq ft. McMansion into 12 small bedrooms and multiple communal and functional spaces would be an interesting project. I’d think the limiting factor would just be number of bathrooms.
this is gonna sound awful but I couldnt stop laughing when I saw the image of the "hangover". Omg ur just leaning on a piece of rope, like just hilariously hellish
My dad is like "ha! What do you want to live on the 100th floor of a Soviet project building???"
We literally solved this problem 100 years ago
At one time, there were 40 Horn & Hardart automats in New York City alone. The last one closed in 1991. Horn and Hardart converted most of its New York City locations to Burger King.
Yeah baby!
In my part of the world, somewhere in the river St-Laurent, rental agency reports a 3.2% vacancy (last year was somewhere around 1%) but still the prices are rising. (Above 1K$/month for two bedrooms).
I've infiltrated a group of landnobility , and they are all whining about the difficulty to rent only to be answered "don't lower, the price you're offering is the market".
These lords and ladies gets the wall second, right after higher capitalists.
Well at least the cities still have single-occupancy hotels to absorb people who can't afford those rates. Oh wait...
Well at least our system of laws allows people to construct their own meager but secure permanent shelter to keep damp out. Oh wait...
Well at least global warming is making winters milder and reducing extreme weather events. Oh wait...
I'm 34 and the chance to own a home before 40 are nil. And I have a pretty well paid job. At the same time I pay about half of my income for a flat and it's a pretty good deal ...
yeah there sort of isn't a future. maybe it all suddenly changes when the boomers FUCKING DIE, but I think they've all reverse mortgaged to billionaires in one big final fuck you to the living.
No it won't lmao
When they die there'll be a new squeeze of some kind and we'll all have to sell off our parents houses for a pittance to big landlord companies
Housing prices will have risen so dramatically that nobody will be able to afford the tax on one
My parents never owned a home, we’ve always rented.
For me owning a house seems like as big of an impossibility as communism being installed in Amerikkka.
Like, nothing seems achievable in this country, at least not for me.
Yeah man, that’s what I’ve been learning as well: make 0 committmemts. Don’t buy a new/expensive car (avoid buying one altogether if you can) don’t buy a house, get a month lease on housing, don’t have a girlfriend/wife. I made the mistake of getting a puppy a few years back and I’ve learned my lesson.
For real...$1700 here. And that's without utilities. Landlord also makes us pay for maintenance lol
Capitalists at least know they have to spend money to make money, landlords think they're entitled to get it without doing anything.
$600 a month wtf?? This country is terminally ill.
I paid $675 to share a basement studio. WTF is wrong with our country.
lol that's too communal, can't be allowed (and I don't just mean because COVID)
and also it would be closer to 200.
it would be funded by venture capitalists and be some co-living bullshit
The people below me are always listening to something or watching tv with their bass up so much. And no matter how many times I ask them to turn it down they don’t fucking care. And it’s driving me insane. It’s making me anxious and always negative and stewing. I just want a house. I just want peace 😔
