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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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PARDON me, am I speaking ENGLISH?
(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday November 28 2021, @10:21PM
A modern prison cell is approximately 10m^2 in Sweden. There may also be some furniture from IKEA, there probably is.
https://www.kriminalvarden.se/om-kriminalvarden/123-fragor/#faq13316 [kriminalvarden.se]
Still as I mentioned I don't think this would be for me, ladders around the flat. I think one of the images showed the bathroom and it had a ladder in the shower. So I wouldn't want to live there permanently.
That said for a buck per month I might still rent one if this somehow became a common or real thing. If nothing else it would be a very cheap storage shed or area. Or a small office or workbench area.