Young people in Tokyo are living in 50-75 square feet rooms paying between $500-$1000 a month in rent.
?How much do you want to live downtown? It?s an important question. Because young people in the world?s greatest cities are juggling unaffordable rents and sometimes working several jobs just to live in a glorified closet with four other people.
We often get the bulk of our nightmare apartment stories from places like New York City and Vancouver, where ?micro suites? are now popping up everywhere, allotting people 350 sq. feet of living space for significantly more money than you?d imagine. If you can get a table a bed and a sofa in there, you?re pretty much a black-belt in efficiency.
But no matter how unpleasant you think our situation sounds, these micro suites are positively palatial compared to the way some people live in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
In Tokyo there is something known as ?coffin apartments?. These dwellings are essentially share houses that consist of communal bathrooms and locker-sized sleeping quarters stacked on top of one another. These lockers, which in a disturbing way sort of resemble morgue refrigerators, run anywhere between 50 to 75 square feet.?
- from ?Tokyo?s ?coffin apartments? are more expensive than you?d think?, Jordana Divon, Shine On, a Yahoo Canada blog, 1 Mar 2013 [hat-tip 'terminalcitygirl']
The Vancouver mention in this article occurs for the sole reason that the author is Canadian (a journalist from the Toronto area). Nobody else would dream of unquestioningly comparing apartment size in Japan or NYC with that in a Canadian city.
Japan, Population 127.3 Million, Area 378,000?km2, Density 336 persons/km2
British Columbia, Population 4.4 Million, Area 944,700?km2, Density 4.7 persons/km2
The idea that anybody should have to live in a cramped space in Canada is patently absurd. Unless, perhaps, if they were in jail.
One meme of the RE cult is that we have no land, whereas in actual fact we have even more land than we have rain.
See the Doug Coupland video below.
- vreaa
Frame from video
?I grew up here, in a suburb just across from Grouse Mountain, overlooking the city. On one side of the fence there is home; and on the other side wilderness until the North Pole.? ? from ?Douglas Coupland?s Vancouver?, a promotional video for Canadian Tourism, 2012.
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