My dad & I are currently living in a studio apartment, so 1 room for bedroom - kitchen - living room & 1 for bathroom; his business is not doing well at the moment so money’s tight rn. Wondering how others live.
i have the same space, basically, at least i’m not sharing it anyone. very small. not really even room enough for a sofa and a bed unless i give up floor space to move or my small table and desk, and the bathroom is so narrow you have to shit at an angle.
I went through this with my wife a few years back. We had to live in a single room for years to make ends meet.
10 years later, we are a family of four now in a three bedroom house that we will hopefully complete it’s payments in 5 years or so.
Difficulties can still happen but we will sail through it again if it needed.
I’m happy for you. We used to have a fairly big house (for 2 people) with a garden and stuff but dad had to sell it to pay off debt. So now we re living in this rented place.
3.5/2 . $4/sqft/mo . It’s a beautiful place but it hits the wallet HARD. It’s nestled in this new ‘15 minute city’ idea, with mixed-use rental towers and walkable access to shops, services and a metro/subway. We’d be very proud and happy to live in this wonderful apartment for a decade, if we could.
I’ve got a 2 bed, 1 bath all to myself. I switched jobs and negotiated my salary specifically based on the rent of a 2/1 in my area, which needed a 30% bump on my previous job.
1 bed/bath to myself (and my cat). Happier here than anywhere I’ve been with a partner.
3 bedroom house. I got lucky and bought it during the housing crash. Also my neighbor’s health was failing and needed to move in with her son so they could care for her, so we got a good deal on the house.
3/3, at least according to the realtors. Although one of them really is not a bedroom by any reasonable definition since it doesn’t have a real door or closet. It’s more of an office.
My spouse and I have been living for the last 25 years in a small apartment in a big city. It’s 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1 living room + kitchen and a couple closets. I reckon the whole surface of our place would barely qualify as enough for a ‘master bedroom’ to the average US menage but we’re not Americans so we don’t care ;)
We’re not poor (we’re not rich, either). We simply have chosen to live like that. Learning to make with the little space we live in. Exactly like we have chosen a couple decades ago to not own a car (and to not take the plane) anymore. We want to try to reduce the amount of waste we generate and reduce our ‘ecological footprint’ on this planet.
Trying here being the important word: we do our best but there are obviously many things we could do better and a few we probably can’t improve much upon (like, I have lifelong health issues that require regular medical care and surgery, which means a lot of waste are being created just to keep me alive a little longer but, nope, I don’t feel like ending myself sooner would be a good idea, not even to spare the planet some waste, sorry ;)
I rent with my fiance with two kids each. We have a 5 bedroom house with two bathrooms. It’s an older house and the insulation isn’t great, but it fits us all and we have real grass in the yard, not gravel like our last house.
a office and guest room, being on the social travel circuit for friends is really good in staying connected, or if we party too hard they can just crash here.
3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom.
The house across the street from us just went up for sale, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms.
Same as you, but live alone.
Own a one bed one bathroom place, but we rent a two bed place.
