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RomanosTheMelodist

galvanized square steel.


mr_negi

Yea. All this person needs is to borrow some screws from his Aunt and get some eco-friendly wood veneer and they're set.


RomanosTheMelodist

hell, he could go all out and get a projector for watching his k-dramas with his girlfriend! honestly I have no clue why he's complaining!


LovesRetribution

Typical little john behavior


EmotionalBrother2

Fuck stop making me laugh you guys i had a nose surgery the splinters will fall out


dumbo_dee_elefunt

just borrow some from your aunt


YanniCanFly

Bro omg I thought I was the only one who sees those videos 😂😂😂


ceslobrerra

Same haha 🤣


ZBG143BB

Happy cake day😊


pokederp56

Needs that bulletproof desk too.


DawsonDevil

Fuck it, take your chances robbing a bank. If you get caught the state will pay for your rent and food and your place will be twice that size.


Urmomsjuicyvagina

Yep, Don't forget your own bathroom share with one roommate only and not multiple


DawsonDevil

I can't believe people pay for crap like this. You can live out of a van and have this much space. More even if you get a high top with extended rear. Most jobs ain't going to car if you just stay parked on site as long as you don't make a mess and they have room for the next shift parking of course. Hell you probably eat better, eating raw and cooking fresh on the grill. Get a gym membership for a shower and next thing you know you'll start working out every other day. I've done the day room, van life, and been to prison, only thing that sucked about the last 2 was no pets. My dog saved me. Only reason a person should be renting that place is court mandated residency. And I hope it ain't for anything related to gaining child custody because it ain't going to happen there.


HoneyBucketsOfOats

Good luck affording your 100k can life van that you can’t park in the city


Dragonslayer3

Dude vans can also be 5k


HoneyBucketsOfOats

You’re going to live in a 5k van?


Dragonslayer3

Am I down by the river?


OneMoistMan

Just find a Lowe’s, Home Depot or Walmart. They let campers stay overnights.


Uhh_VincentAdultMan

I don’t think they have those in Manhattan . Maybe Home Depot but they definitely don’t have a big parking lot.


No-Understanding9064

Stines wouldn't even let me park to car pool for a job, assfucks.


persona0

You can park it in the city even metered areas it's a lot cheaper to.domthenntomrent out that extended coffin


Unionhighschool2000

Nah, I’ll take this residence over a jail cell or a van on any day


my-man-fred

"People" probably don't. "Subsidized" people do.


BoredAtWork1976

NYC is clinically insane.  I've seen videos of people renting bedrooms, and someone else has to walk thru your room to get to theirs!  No city on Earth could be great enough to put up with this kind of stuff.


deathbat117

There's a horror manga about the city without streets. Basically everyone has gone insane. Pedestrians walk through random people's homes, wearing masks for the slightest sense of privacy.


RCTD-261

that's [The Town Without Streets](https://mangapark.net/title/81546-en-itou-junji-kyoufu-manga-collection/4920371-vol-11-chapter-1-town-without-streets), made by Junji Ito


Corrupt_Angel01

i just read it and that was... bizarre


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RCTD-261

sounds like [The Town Without Streets](https://mangapark.net/title/81546-en-itou-junji-kyoufu-manga-collection/4920371-vol-11-chapter-1-town-without-streets) by Junji Ito


festeziooo

This is a pretty rare thing and most apartments aren’t setup like that. And if they are it’s because someone repurposed a railroad apartment and decided they wanted to rent out the room, and someone else agreed to it. Not my thing at all and I agree I could never live with that but this isn’t indicative of anything close to the norm in NYC.


Heritis_55

I had to look at apartments for rent in NYC to see if it was really that bad. Definitely expensive but honestly not much worse than San Diego.


festeziooo

Been living here basically my whole life and posts like these also always seem to be NYC=Manhattan. Go to Queens or Brooklyn which people from out of town somehow STILL think are unsafe places to be, and I would be floored if you can find any listings like this that aren’t illegal/under the table.


Uhh_VincentAdultMan

Railroad apartments suck.


Boredbanker1234

Not sure how it’s been since Covid, but it wasn’t too bad when I was there 2017-2020. I had a studio on 34th and 3rd for 1750/mo, and shared a two bedroom with a massive porch on 44th and 2nd for like 4100 total, so 2050 each. Both places were relatively spacious.


DouchecraftCarrier

Yep, it's called a Railroad style apartment. Hard to tell who has it worse - the person whose roommate walks through their room to get to the bathroom all the time or the person who has to bother their roommate every time they need to use the bathroom. I knew 2 girls who lived in one. They didn't seem to mind it too much, I guess once you get used to it its not so bad. But I didn't get the sense their apartment was really that much cheaper to make it worth it.


Cardboard_is_great

I don’t get why people force themselves into cities like NYC and London, barely scratch a living working crummy jobs and live in sub human conditions. The mind blows.


Secure-Bus4679

Damn might as well skip it and get a OTR job cuz that place is about the size of the sleep cabin on a big rig.


Cleercutter

Had a prison cell bigger than this. Literally.


Stoomba

And you still get your own toilet in a prison cell.


silicatetacos

I once saw an apartment for that low. 400sqft, the floor did not exist. It was dirt.


SaltyEngineer45

I’m shocked it’s only 1200!


Epoxhy

Well I think 6.350789086 E+3175 is a little steep


captinherb

r/unexpectedfactorial


OutToLunch198

I don’t even think I saw an outlet?


antoltian

Poop at work, pee out the window. No problem.


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antoltian

I use wet wipes and body spray!


Gumbercules81

Fuck that life.


se7en0311

They should make a pee pee bottle shute. For the bathroom just pee in a bottle and throw it down the tube like at the pharmacy drive-thru. I guess you could also use it as a poop shute as well For maximizing space


psychoticworm

Gestation crates for humans


HeeroCaru

Imagine working from home lol


TheBigGruyere

Why the fuck is this a thing? I live in middle Tennessee and my mortgage for a 3 bedroom is less than this.


SIIB-ZERO

Well..you kind of just answered your own question with your location disclosure


DLo28035

I think the question is why does someone put up with this just to be near great Chinese food and bagels, go somewhere else where you aren’t treated like a rat.


Nathansp1984

I live about 15min from downtown Charleston and my mortgage for a 1700sq/ft house is less than that closet apartment


MrNaoB

Oh, Fallout 76 locations are real.


Nathansp1984

What?


SIIB-ZERO

And this is NYC, one of the most densely populated and competitive real estate areas on the planet. Location is everything. In Orlando Fl right now $1200 would only get you an extra 200 square feet than this one which is a tiny kitchen and your own small bathroom.


whitepageskardashian

1200 is like the lowest possible in Orlando


HoneyBucketsOfOats

People actually want to live there


LongjumpingAd81

"people" that rhymes with "animals"


Supersnazz

You are 22. Someone offers you a job in NYC. It only pays 40k a year, but with a 50% chance that within 10 years you will be earning $400,000 a year. You will socially interact with hundreds of extremely attractive members of the opposite sex. But you can only afford to live in this place. Do you take the job? Maybe not, but I'm sure you can see why someone definitely would.


TheBigGruyere

Yeah if I was young and single I'd probably jump on that too lol. My flabbergastness, is really coming from the fact that an apartment building thinks this is acceptable. Frys little broom closet looks more spacious than this for christs sake. Yes that was a Futurama reference lol.


Pain_Monster

Futurama? Never heard of it … 😏 ![gif](giphy|ANbD1CCdA3iI8)


en1gmatic51

I Still don't get it... you gotta take these "highly attractive members" back to this? I don't understand the advantages of networking/constant social pressures as a tradeoff to a shit living condition, versus a small town or even sububurban living with your own single home at the same price. How is a faster paced, minimal living space situation ideal? Who doesn't want suburban living? I thought that's the goal? What isn't appealing about it? So much more room to yourself, a pace of life where you're in more control of every aspect. And time and space to find actual fun self-enriching hobbies, instead of "brunch dates" to worry about re-assuring yourself to others that you matter, that city people tend to focus on.


Supersnazz

> a shit living condition Remember you'd spend most of your time out and about. When your young and social your life isn't spent at home. You'd be out almost every night, simply coming home to sleep. All of your hobbies and life would be outside of your own space.


RynoRama

Location Location Location


Major_Magazine8597

Location location location.


No_Breath_9833

$1200 for NYC? Nice


mrlotato

Geez dude.. I lived in downtown DC during covid in a studio that was like 500 square feet for $1300. Granted two years later, the same studio now goes for over 2k but... you know what idk what my point is, we gettin shafted out here bois


blueisaflavor

Communal Toilet 🤮


Earthistopheles

Why is the video sped up? Mf walked 3 feet.


patchway247

With a shared bathroom for the floor 💀


Urmomsjuicyvagina

Bro. Nobody's held accountable, there could be semen on the floor and you wouldn't know 💀


mibonitaconejito

Worked with a (tall, bug) guy who moved to FL with his wife. Prior to that they were working in Manhattan **and they rented a 'walk in' closet** with just enough space on the floor for the 2 of them to sleep closely side by side. Nearly $1,000 a month, and this was 15 years ago. Moved to FL, built a whole huge house and their mortgage at the time was $600 a month.  Human beings are not meant to live in walk in closets


kimmortal03

i do not see any allure or appeal in living in new york. Even withca ton of money i just dont see a reason to live there…


Major_Magazine8597

Then it's not for you.


cottman23

But why? To start your career? Is there an actual end goal achievable with this?


Boring-Cry3089

I’ve never lived in a place this small, but I did live in San Francisco for 8 years. And yes, it was mostly for my career. My wife and I lived in a 700sqft apartment that was $2,600 a month before we decided to move to a smaller city on the east coast. I’d do it all again in a heartbeat, but it was certainly not ideal financially. Many people (myself included) just love living in big cities. I can’t explain why, but they give me more energy than other places.


cottman23

My roommate says the same thing and he's about to move to NYC for the first time. He comments on the love for the lifestyle. I guess that's a big part of it, as well as the career opportunities.


Major_Magazine8597

Guess you've never seen the number and quality of young ladies walking around Manhattan in the spring and summer.


SlurpySandwich

There are attractive women in every city.


The_Majestic_Mantis

Soon, they’ll demand everyone live in these apartments.


Ivanovic-117

Rent in my area McAllen tx, average $1200 but you’ll looking at 2 bedroom maybe 3 depending on neighborhood, 1000-1400 sq ft.


OfficialYellowLego2

Shhhhh!


keepitcleanforwork

Don't worry.


RocksLibertarianWood

Use Zillow. Shit is crazy there 1bed 1bath $3.5 - $5.5k. Plus they got hella vacant units, if they lower the price they might fill some of them units. For real… it’s crazy how many available units, look that shit up


No_Budget7828

Apparently there’s no kitchen so add to the ridiculous rent, all of his meals “to go”


mybrotherpete

Someone is going to be peeing in a can https://preview.redd.it/grupp6zaub3d1.jpeg?width=1092&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f53bf6c0889c4254e4d5cd5e0ece889d7cc09081


SirLouisPalmer

The fact people accept this is insane to me.


g19xray

None of this is okay.


pepsiredtube

Summerville, SC, just outside of Charleston. My mortgage for a quarter acre 3 bed room house with a privacy fence and calm creek behind my home with a dock to sit on… 1,400. I sit in the sun in complete privacy in my backyard reading comics and getting a tan. NYC living is crazy to me, and I’ve visited there and lived in Chicago. Space is worth more than random restaurant accessibility.


Forsexualfavors

Yo he's got one outlet in that prison cell he's renting


superkat05

this is a dorm


datsall

Shower looked oddly large


ContentTheory7416

For most of the 20th century, some buildings in NYC had one bathroom in the hallway for all tenants of the floor. Most all were renovated and upgraded in the 1970's and '80's so that every apartment had their own bathroom. Very surprised to see this arrangement still exists today.


Sufficient-Dinner-27

Pretty sweeping statement. Not ALL apartments are bathroom shares.


LiLHeka

All it needs is some Galvanized square steel and eco-friendly wood veneer


Rocky_Asap

Prison Cells have more room.


Supersnazz

Yes but you can't really leave prison. The person who lives here will be living in all of the public spaces in NYC.


napoleonshatten

For $1200 hahahahahaha, what the hell....


Kansai_Lai

Oh I hate this. I'm getting claustrophobic just looking at this


Consistent_Try8728

Wouldnt trust that toilet mirrors tbh


Old-Revolution-9650

Jail cells are bigger than that. I wouldn't live there if it was free.


LonelySavings5244

Only in New York City and California are things like this happening. I wonder why.


gamerdumb

GALVANIZED STEEL FRAMES


quinnthelin

might as well live in a van at that point, at least you'll have more space.


Talvisolta

Humans complaining about factory farming animals. Meanwhile human themselves:


Buttvin

I’m obviously too deep into parenthood. The mortgage on my 4 bed house is 2250. I see this and think, “My housing cost would drop by almost half AND I’d get a bathroom without kids barging in!” I would totally do this for 6-12 months to explore NYC and live out those fantasies.


Lucifers_Goldfish

People in these comments are wild. 1. “That’s as much as my mortgage in [insert middle of nowhere town here].” Yea no shit. 2. Only morons, suckers, and desperate folks live in these apartments. Typically it’s the former. I live in a 2br in NYC with in unit laundry, updated appliances including a dishwasher, parking and a backyard with a garden for what a mortgage is most places these days. Don’t buy into this nonsense video of what living in NYC is like. NYC is massive and is more than just midtown manhattan.


Chakote

No one lives in that room. No reason to believe it's an apartment and many reasons to believe it isn't.


Lizzards_Gizzards

New york is full of this type of living now. Its all anyone from there talks about


Mother-Coffee5429

La as well, I have a friend that lives is something like this


generiatricx

no freaking way in la... yet. hollywood? financial district? would zoning allow a studio such as this?


Mother-Coffee5429

Koreatown is where my friend lives; but I’ve seen listing all around la that similar


kinofhawk

Probably an SRO (single room occupancy).


Apprehensive_Mud6642

I pay $710 in Houston and much larger hahahah


meatloafthepuppy

Yeah but…. You live in Texas….


Boring-Cry3089

Yeah but I don’t like sharing a bathroom with people. Especially strangers that live across the hall from me.


meatloafthepuppy

There are plenty of rentals in other states that don’t require you to share a bathroom. Just putting that out there.


Boring-Cry3089

I think NYC is awesome. I’ve been there like 9 or 10 times, and I’ve loved every minute of those trips. With that being said, are you unable to comprehend that some people might enjoy living in Texas? It’s not one of the most populated states in the US by accident.


meatloafthepuppy

I lived in Texas, and yes I’m unable to comprehend.


Boring-Cry3089

I’ve never lived there, but I can see why some people would enjoy it. I can see why people would want to live basically anywhere in the world. I guess empathy is just a gift that some people don’t possess.


meatloafthepuppy

Texas state capital is dead center in flash flood alley. You ever have a car totaled or your home and everything inside it ruined by a flood? It fucking sucks. Texas is on its own power grid from the rest of the country ( to avoid federal oversight) . It’s typically pretty hot in Texas, so their power sources are not winterized. So in 2021 and with any future extreme winter storms - you’re out of power and water in sub-freezing temperatures. In 2021, 57 deaths occurred because of this crisis. And just to dip my toes slightly into their politics, I can’t get an abortion there even if I was raped. Live in Texas for a year, then get back to me about “empathy.”


fingerpaintx

The concept is okay in theory but slightly larger and maybe 1K a month and it would make sense.


Daysleeper1234

Do people have no other options, or do they really want to live in New York? Like why?


CevJuan238

Shit box not even included in your shit box apartment 😒


belisaurius42

My mortgage is only a couple hundred more than that a month, geez.


kotrogeor

All he has to do is gather $200.000 working in the mines and remove the window to expand this coffin sized apartment with galvanised square steel.


FireTriad

If a person like to live there, good for that person. I will never ever accept to live like that.


TommyBarcelona

Holy crap I thought Barcelona was bad😂


havocLSD

*After Jerry sold more than 1 million burritos, he was able to buy an apartment barely the size of a coffin. This is how he makes the most out of his limited space. First, he removes the side of the building and reinforces the frame with galvanized steel. After he installs plumbing behind the wall and installs a discreet toilet. He encases the toilet in a box and above places an electric stove top and sink that can fold for ultimate efficiency….*


ReplyisFutile

Living in NY must be so good that people accept this and dont move elsewhere


astroboy7070

What do you think $1200/month in New York fancy neighborhood should buy you?


DJScopeSOFM

This can't be legal.


DelightfulDolphin

This apartment is a SRO or single room occupancy. These were popular in major cities when there were great amounts of workers, visitors and military in need of housing. Were meant to be a place to sleep and mostly temporary. Their demolition has contributed to homelessness as were affordable and few remain. There's a great write up here https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-02/a-visual-history-of-single-room-occupancy-sro-affordable-housing. Use archive to read.


12-7_Apocalypse

I have seen prison cells bigger than that, and with bathrooms. Yet, someone will move into that cell that the landlord likes to call an apartment.


minsandmolls

Where would the bed go?


dini2k

So what? You are paying for the location


robloxandminecraft1

Little Johnny...


MrNaoB

How does he cook food?


black-orange1

Bought or rented ??


Supersnazz

Used to be the standard. Bedsit apartments were a very cheap way to live for young people. Much better than dorm living


NekoSilver777

the white overcoat seems nice btw


Aaron_505

Bro even the hallway is giving me claustrophobia


rammaam

Not all places in NYC are like this. A friend of mine owns his Brooklyn apartment (small 1 bed with a bathroom...cost almost as much as my 3 bedroom house in MI)


WhiskeyDickCheese

More like a cell.


Classicvintage3

To clostrophobic…


Serious_Site_6517

1200 to have a 5x10 box


ZackValenta

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of. Ok lol.


ScarcityNo7117

This person needs to call little John


Stock-Competition318

It's a luxury coffin


Left-Group7010

All I need is: eco friendly wood veneer, galvanized square steel and screws borrowed from my aunt.


Melodic_Risk_5632

This is crazy 😧


Yui_-_Hirasawa

Anyone have the sound?


pocorey

We live in a society


tinycyan

Time to break out the galvanized steel frame


KXNGKORLEONE

My Genesee county cell was bigger than that


tempss0

Meh, I could live with that.


Losttheminimallmoney

Do they have any available apartments? Do I still need 70x the rent to qualify?


Panhead_91

Guess I'll die on the street


Apprehensive_Mud6642

Houston is the most diverse city in the country, and it's better than living in Homeless San Francisco or Shitty new York


Darth_Azazoth

This isn't terrifying it's infuriating.


Foreign_Community_53

Jeez It’s smaller than the room Judy Hops had in zootopia. I’d loose my marbles inside a room that enclosed !


NTR-kouhai69

Difference between New York and Chinese apartments? Nothing except Chingchong apartments are 99.7% cheaper LMAO


spen163yu

This is not worth it, Big city or not.


Pitiful_Fox_9592

Bender, is that you?


Klutzy-Newspaper2072

eco-freindly wood veneer


Slayer6R

It looks like the storage closet turned apartment that Jermaine moves into when he moves out of the apartment that he and Bertt share on Flight of the Conchords!


Competitive_End1160

I really don't know how can people live or adjust in such apartments, especially students, after **amber** I don't think I'll be able to compromise on the space and comfort that they provide!


Frettchen_Fer

Dorm*


Similar-Apricot-90

Only $165 less than what I pay! But I have my own kitchen and bathroom!


Regular_Two_6358

1200 for a prison cell. Seems nice. I’ll keep paying 900 on my mortgage for 2500ft2 thanks tho


Expert_Education_416

The funny thing is, people think this is what communism/socialism/boogeyman of the month is....when in reality...it's capitalism lmfao


SnowWhite_Apple

Even my closer is bigger than this . How the hell people live there. Where will bed fit and where will they sleep?


Cultural_Effect9817

Bender would love that place


Pleasant-Purpose-347

No kitchen? Hope your happy


Dolorem_Ipsum_

As someone who became claustrophobic at 30, I wanna burn this place to the ground


Awkward-Ad4942

My walk in wardrobe is bigger than that.


basicfort

Can anyone clarify whether this is $1200 per week or per month? If it is per week then yeah that’s insanity, but if it’s per month, that’s sounding quite reasonable for an essentially a dorm room in the city?


MeanMusterMistard

I think if anything is described as "essentially" a room, then there's a problem.