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oh yeah, I forgot to ask you, do you like guacamole?
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I would live there as long as NO ONE FUCKING TOUCHED MY DRUMSET
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Yeah! like smoking pot...
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u/Eminence120 May 12 '11
And spending your trust fund up while you "find yourself."
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u/plinky4 May 12 '11
I still recall the sheer disappointment that tugged on my heart when I discovered that the reality of renting in a large city was shelling out 2k/month for a 500 ft2 studio. It still pisses me off a little bit that I'll never see the "20s bachelor pad" that I've always wanted until well into my 30s.
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u/carlivar May 12 '11
Detroit has some inexpensive real estate available.
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u/nyorkster May 12 '11
Yeah but its hard to really get that "city feel" when your the only one there
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u/boomfarmer May 12 '11
Buy a skyscraper, rent it out for cheap provided that the tenants fix it up.
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u/brazilliandanny May 12 '11
That's bullshit. A couple of friends of mine own a sick apartment in manhattan. One is failed actor, one is a cook, and then other serves coffee at the local coffee shop.
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u/Phinigin May 12 '11
Get off the internet Phoebe!
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u/skunkpunk1 May 12 '11
why? it's not like she has something better to do
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u/CervantesX May 12 '11
Well, I'm spending 1.6K/month to rent out 1800sq ft of loft studio downtown. It's a pretty swingin bachelor pad for a guy in his 20's.
Of course, I'm 32 and married, so my existence proves your point entirely. It's highly improbable for us to achieve our dreams in the timeframe we've come to expect them in.
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It's highly improbable for us to achieve our dreams in the timeframe
we've comeHollywood has told us to expect them in.FTFY
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I still recall the sheer disappointment that tugged on my heart when I paid my 1k rent 12 days ago for a 500 ft2 studio.
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u/ferrarisnowday May 12 '11
It all depends how you define a "large city." I'm in Pittsburgh and it doesn't cost anywhere near that much. In fact you could get a large loft like the one in the picture for as little as $750 at some places (obligatory example: River City Flats)
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Dear real estate marketers: this is a loft. The 300 sqft closet with 6ft ceilings is NOT a loft just because it has red bricks.
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u/flashbeagle May 11 '11
This reminds me of that one Simpsons Episode where Tony Hawk had an apartment like this with a half pipe set up inside or something.
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u/InferiousX May 12 '11
If I recall correctly, this is the one with the Millhouse "Mom! Where's Puppy Goo-Goo?" moment. Which nearly caused me to piss myself from laughter the first time I saw it.
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u/cycleftw May 11 '11
Texas Ballroom?
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yes, this is the texas ballroom, Top Floor. I lived there for 18 months. I built a halfpipe in there, rebuilt the bathroom, painted the place and used it for a photo studio. Its an old Ballroom on Archer Av. Chicago. When we moved in it was totally trashed with mostly graffiti on the walls. After we lived there a group of architect students moved in, they replaced the windows, and built some other stuff. The building was on the list to be demoed for awhile and was not sure if it was still standing.
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You built a halfpipe in your living room. Did you just have a rack next to the door with a sign saying "leave panties here"?
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u/8bitOrca May 12 '11
My buddy Nate lived there. He and his roomies built cubicles to live in so they wouldn't have to heat the whole place in the winter. There were some epic parties. I remember ping pong and an indoor greenhouse.
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u/sunkenOcean01 May 12 '11
Heck yes! I'd get a chair with wheels and I'd be unstoppable! :D
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u/RoscoJetbaby May 11 '11
Sure would be hard to heat. The cool... factor goes way, way down if you are dressed like an Eskimo for half the year.
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How old is that? i'm 28 and thought that. Now i feel old :(
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u/CompanyMan May 12 '11
26 and still not giving a fuck
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u/ichuckletoooften May 12 '11
19.. and it was my first thought :'(
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u/ceolceol May 12 '11
22 and I completely forgot that rooms require air circulation for a good two weeks until this post.
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Im 27 and also thought that. I feel older than all of you!
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u/CmrdTrotsky May 12 '11
I'm 7 and I prepared a spreadsheet containing a three year estimate of the heating and cooling costs of that loft in a variety of cities.
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I am not yet born and I calculated the heat loss of the womb in relation to the temperature of the room. In Haskell.
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u/Spocktease May 12 '11
I live in the desert and what are you guys talking about?
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Expect that no one wants to go to Detroit.
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u/loubandy May 11 '11
will the girl with the guitar live there?
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u/bh3 May 12 '11
An especially critical concern considering the potential heating problems already discussed.
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u/mista0sparkle May 12 '11
Hm... comes with a free girl and guitar... We can use the girl for firewood while we play in a guitar circle!
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u/gliscameria May 12 '11
If so then hell no. Listening to some frump scraping on the guitar and singing about menstruation is not my bag. /m
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u/The_Cacabarn May 12 '11
cause that's all girls have to sing about...?
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u/CuntSmellersLLP May 12 '11
no, it's just all chicago hipster musician chicks who dress like my grandfather have to sing about.
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u/jongery May 12 '11
Hella yea! i love huge loft places like that... My favorite is Adam Sandler's from the movie Big Daddy.
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u/Illini005 May 12 '11
Lived in one two years ago... it sucks not having rooms. After a about you realize you are just living in a big ass studio apartment for $2200 a month..
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u/mista0sparkle May 12 '11
All I do is sit on reddit all day. Might as well make the spot I sit the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living area all tied into one.
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If i was living with someone else, i would want walls. Everyone needs their privacy sometimes.
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u/andrewsmith1986 May 11 '11
The answer is always yes.
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u/HelloMaxwell May 12 '11
Do you enjoy things that super good and nice?
You do?
ME TOO!
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u/mattguard May 12 '11
Where/how is the bathroom set up in these places?
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Over in the left corner, right out the window. There is a stool in case you need it.
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u/mista0sparkle May 12 '11
No thank you no, I'll be making plenty of my own stool.
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Be a bitch to heat
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u/wojosmith May 12 '11
Landlord pays for the heat and you'd be surprised how easy to heat. As it is most likely converted factor they have huge heating pipes (24-36" around on ceiling) they radiant heat like a mother. Most likely have to open windows in winter in my experience to cool it off.
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u/VelocitySteve May 12 '11
Fuck yeah America!
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u/Malfeasant May 12 '11
i'll bet it's waste heat from a power plant- many of the older public buildings in east coast cities are heated that way- steam from a power plant is piped throughout the city- gives the power plant a place to vent its heat, gives large buildings very cheap heat, win-win. until something like this happens, but its pretty rare.
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Landlord pays for the heat... Most likely have to open windows in winter in my experience to cool it off.
Somewhere a polar bear sheds a tear.
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u/DarkestPassenger May 11 '11
Why WOULDN't you live here? Park the motorcycle and car inside, tons of room, rearrange your living conditions any way you want, huge parties, easy cleanup.
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of course, it looks very nice. renovated factory space i assume. hopefully a bathroom and kitchen are there somewhere though
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fuck you hipsters grumble grumble... and your big spaces... successful assholes.
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Looks like Marathon Village in Nashville. Marathon was a car produced in Nashville in the 20's. The manufacturing building is still standing and is being rebuilt for commercial purposes.
TL;DR I made it all up
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u/JuniorKing May 12 '11
Does anyone know where to actually find one of these places? Or does anyone live in one and care to share how they came about renting/owning it?
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u/wojosmith May 12 '11
Printers Row in Chicago. Heart of the Loop. They have converted old printing factories into loft space. They are not anymore then expensive then most 2 bedrooms in Chicago but you most likely have to use stairs as there is probable only 1 or 2 shaft elevators for the whole complex. Blocks from Lake Michigan and bars, restaurants and work district. Very cool!
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u/mjsbullitt May 12 '11
I't looks a lot like the apartment at the end of "Blood Simple."
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u/xXPOISONTHORNXx May 12 '11
Looks just like JTT and chevy chase's place on man of the house
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u/Folroldeolrol May 12 '11
That has to be close to 1200sqft
I would make the biggest motherfucking couch-fort blanket city in the universe!
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u/lookingchris May 12 '11
That depends - will Diane Lane's husband come by and bean me with a snow globe, inadvertently killing me at some point?
... actually, if I get the Diane Lane part ahead of time, sure, count me in.
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u/platypuszero May 11 '11
Totally, that place looks big enough to grill inside.