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IKEA has furnished and is renting out a 10 m2 apartment in central Tokyo for about a dollar per month. It's clearly a gimmick of sorts as the furniture in the apartment are worth a lot more then that. Still looking at the pictures it looks like living in a nicely furnished prison cell, that is also very high (floor to ceiling). Any takers for such compact living? I dont think climbing around on ladders to get around is for me.
It seems very futuristic though; it is a staple of sci-fi to pack people like sardines in a can (Ripley's apartment in aliens, 5th element etc., etc.)
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/25/business/ikea-japan-tokyo-tiny-apartment-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.ikea.com/jp/ja/campaigns/ca00-tiny-homes-pub616dcf20
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday November 28 2021, @09:03PM (1 child)
Sadly, it is a thing. NYC makes it difficult for newcomers from anywhere unless you're an illegal alien. Some might hear a screed in that, but it's honestly not. It has been that way since at least the days of Tammany Hall, when Boss Tweed gave what were essentially FOB Irish a place to live, a job, and a leg up in exchange for political patronage. There's still political advantage in the city to using illegal immigrants in that way.
For most other newcomers, it's hard to get an apartment without one-two month's security deposit and the first month's rent up front. They don't take non-local checks, and you can't open a bank account in NYC without a local address so that you can get checks with a local address. I had an account with Citibank in Chicago, but it made no difference to Citibank in New York; I couldn't even walk into a Citibank in NYC and get a cashier's check from them because funds in Citibank Chicago are non-transferrable to Citibank NYC for that purpose. I had to withdraw the maximum amount from the ATM in cash for days until I had enough to cover three month's rent.
And so on, and so on. If you try to do things legally and by the book, it is difficult. If you think like an illegal alien or fugitive from the law, you will have an easier time by getting illegal sublets or that sort of thing.
And once you're in NYC and have a place and are set up, real estate speculation and rent control combine to make it a tough thing to move, because either you can get the same size apartment for about the same rent in an urban war zone like Bed-Sty, or pay double or triple for a worse apartment in your same neighborhood. Or, worst of all, you might cross the water to Jersey and become, *shudder*, one of the B&T People ("Bridge & Tunnel," meaning, you have to cross a bridge or go through a tunnel to get into the city).
There are many layers to it, but, yes, it is a thing.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @09:58PM
It's true.. I live in a place with very few Jews (Oregon), so I guess we just do things different here. With Bank of America I can walk into any branch in the USA and withdraw. Heck, I can go to Munich and withdraw from my BoA account at Deutsche Bank.