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The apartments are supposed to enable single city dwellers access to a cheaper alternative to sky-high rents, but tenants might be choosing between their sanity and their salaries.
TDawgRex
This is another one of those studies that really does nothing but confirm common sense.
observer.com...#!
The apartments are supposed to enable single city dwellers access to a cheaper alternative to sky-high rents, but tenants might be choosing between their sanity and their salaries.
Hence the DUH! OMG! Where can I get oodles of government grants to confirm common sense that has been known for decades. Show me the money!
I'm a fan of the smaller house/Tiny house movement...but I would never try to raise children in such a enviroment...unless i had plenty of acreage.
Mamatus
Personally I would live in a tent before I lived in an apartment. If so broke that an apartment is all I could afford some tent living would give me a chance to save some cash and try to change my life.
I can say that because I did it.
It hurts my heart to see people crammed into little boxes, stacked up on top of other boxes. Apartment living is one step from a jail cell as far as I am concerned. The constant proximity to other humans that are also fairly broke is a recipe for bad things. From broken into cars to burglaries and weirdo stalkers. apartments have them all.
geobro
reply to post by VoidHawk
you could in the highlands but you would be dead in the morning with the cold and in the summer the midge's would eat you alive .
better to go stir crazy in a warm flat that is a lot bigger than a jail cell
a thick skin and plenty whisky i have been on jobs where i had to wear womens tights on my face like a armed robber i kidd you not but they are nothing compared to the clegs [ horse flies ] i have painted doors outside on remote jobs and have to scrape them off the next day with a big scraper
VoidHawk
geobro
reply to post by VoidHawk
you could in the highlands but you would be dead in the morning with the cold and in the summer the midge's would eat you alive .
better to go stir crazy in a warm flat that is a lot bigger than a jail cell
Never been that far up country yet. I've heard about the midges, how do the locals cope with them? Is it a case of covering oneself with sheep poo or something just as nasty?