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Alana Semuels writes in The Atlantic that Millennials want the chance to be alone in their own bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens, but they also want to be social and never lonely.That's why real estate developer Troy Evans is starting construction on a new space in Syracuse called Commonspace that he envisions as a dorm for Millennials that will feature 21 microunits, each packed with a tiny kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living space into 300-square-feet. The microunits surround shared common areas including a chef's kitchen, a game room, and a TV room. "We're trying to combine an affordable apartment with this community style of living, rather than living by yourself in a one-bedroom in the suburbs," says Evans. The apartments will be fully furnished to appeal to potential residents who don't own much (the units will have very limited storage space). The bedrooms are built into the big windows of the office building—one window per unit—and the rest of the apartment can be traversed in three big leaps. The units will cost between $700 and $900 a month. "If your normal rent is $1,500, we're coming in way under that," says John Talarico. "You can spend that money elsewhere, living, not just sustaining."
Co-living has also gained traction in a Brooklyn apartment building that creates a networking and social community for its residents and where prospective residents answer probing questions like "What are your passions?" and "Tell us your story (Excite us!)." If accepted, tenants live in what the company's promotional materials describe as a "highly curated community of like-minded individuals." Millennials are staying single longer than previous generations have, creating a glut of people still living on their own in apartments, rather than marrying and buying homes. But the generation is also notoriously social, having been raised on the Internet and the constant communication it provides. This is a generation that has grown accustomed to college campuses with climbing walls, infinity pools, and of course, their own bathrooms. Commonspace gives these Milliennials the benefits of living with roommates—they can save money and stay up late watching Gilmore Girls—with the privacy and style an entitled generation might expect. "It's the best of both worlds," says Michelle Kingman. "You have roommates, but they're not roommates."
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:39PM
I think this is a great idea, provided you don't end up with an asshole in your area. The real-world equivalent of and internet troll (I guess that would be a troll) would really take the fun out of this.
(Score: 5, Informative) by dyingtolive on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:52PM
Everyone is someone else's asshole.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by snick on Tuesday November 10 2015, @11:26PM
If you can't spot the asshole in your first half hour in the dorm, then you ARE the asshole.
(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Wednesday November 11 2015, @02:39PM
Excellent! I love being the asshole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @04:13PM
Isn't that pretty much the premise of The Human Centipede?
(Score: 3, Funny) by tibman on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:53PM
Does walking around naked at night count as "an asshole in your area"?
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Freeman on Tuesday November 10 2015, @11:37PM
At the least you'd sure see one.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:57PM
I take it you never lived in the dormitory while in college?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:22AM
That's pretty much what it's like. I lived in a place almost exactly like the article describes, a big cinderblock building right across from CSUN with 3 stories and hundreds of rooms, although it wasn't officially part of the university and they allowed people of all ages to live there. It had a hotel-like layout, with internal carpeted hallways.
Even back then the youth were loud, obnoxious, with the stench of weed billowing down the hallways, spitting on the hallway rugs and leaving their trash-bags and pizza boxes in the hallways because they were too lazy to walk the few feet to the goddamn dumpster.
The cops were called often -- there were the attempted rapes, some members of a local junior college football team escaping from the law out a second-story window, a whole washing machine was jacked in a very messy manner (causing a flood on a first-floor hallway) there were always fire-alarms going off, people fucking in the jacuzzi in a very well-lit and visible area, drunks, graffitti, vandalism, and to top it all off the family P.I. of a rich junkie kid paying me surprise visits at 9pm on weeknights asking me where junkie-boy was and what he OD'd on this time.
And, again, that was in the nice part of town. If I were a property manager in charge of such a building I'd turn an obscene profit railroading tenants out and pocketing their security deposits (using non-renewal of a short-term lease, of course, since evicting tenants is damn near impossible in California). I would have a few paid mole tenants to fabricate complaints of "incidents."
You'd think that it would be just a bunch of quiet sperg shut-ins jacking off to Anime all day, but you'd be surprised what young adults get into.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @10:59AM
You'd think that it would be just a bunch of quiet sperg shut-ins jacking off to Anime all day
Superior people, you mean. It is the filthy normies you need to worry about.
(Score: 4, Funny) by VLM on Tuesday November 10 2015, @10:52PM
Without the asshole, who would everyone talk about and conspire behind?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:15AM