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Originally Posted by zrx299
Would you want to live in a 300 sqft place? Because that's what it would take (or worse) to achieve those numbers. What a miserable existence that would be. Warehousing humans.
Imagine a young couple trying to shoehorn their life into that kind of space.
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Not really. I live in a 1400sqft apartment currently. I want the small apartments to exist for other people so the overall price of housing goes down in the city as the housing shortage decreases. The same way I fully support building out public transportation for everyone but me to use. I just want a highly efficient system of urban living for the rest of the city, to make room for my own wasting of resources. I think I would get evicted quickly from any dense apartment or condo anyway, because I often watch movies and play games with a giant surround sound system (with subwoofer) in the middle of the night. And I need room for my beanie baby collection.
I think that these buildings could use more 600 - 800sqft apartments however. Unless that is already the norm, and I am just vastly underestimating the amount of utility space (utilities, hallways, elevators, walls, etc) that is required to build upwards instead of outwards. Does anyone know how much more space per apartment is wasted as the floor count increases?