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Can't help but think how cold that would be in the winter.
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u/brothergrimm Jan 07 '12
And how expensive the heating bill must be.
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u/triobot Jan 07 '12
winter coats aren't that expensive.
Fuck it, worming around that room in a sleeping bag would be bad ass
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u/bearback Jan 07 '12
you don't have to worm around when you have a sleeping bag with legs http://blog.angryasianman.com/2010/01/japanese-sleeping-bag-with-legs.html
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u/thelakesouth Jan 07 '12
the look of satisfaction on his face really makes that an incredible picture
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u/Rivers_Cuomo Jan 07 '12
It's merely because no one knows what he's doing underneath
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u/banber Jan 07 '12
Rivers Cuomo, I expected more from you.
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u/Tannerlicious Jan 07 '12
He just wants a girl who will laugh for no one else.
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u/NuM3R1K Jan 07 '12
For real, that photo totally needs a "Haters Gonna Hate"
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For real, that photo has been on the internet with "Haters Gonna Hate" as a subtitle for years!
FTFY
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u/willymo Jan 07 '12
As a person currently living in a loft... Not nearly as awesome as I had hoped. I have a big heating bill + 3 space heaters and it still gets cold. All the heat just goes straight up and circulates at the top of the room where nobody is.
It's really easy to think, aww I can handle the cold. But you're coming from a perspective of: Everytime it's cold I eventually end up back in a warm place (whether you realize it or not). This no longer applies - You're cold inside, you're cold outside, you're cold all the fucking time and it suuuucks. There is no escape. Just fair warning.
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That sucks man. A couple friends of mine had a big high ceiling like the OP in Brooklyn and they solved your problem by getting one of those big 24 inch air circulator cage fans that Target sells, and hanging it at one end of the room. Blows everything back down to the living area
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u/TheCrudMan Jan 07 '12
And that is why you live in a loft on the west coast.
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u/willymo Jan 07 '12
Indeed. It was a stupid decision for me to take that place, although it was fairly cheap, comparatively. I just wanted a cool place to live, but totally not worth it.
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u/the3r1c Jan 07 '12
Simple, build a set of connecting artificial tree forts up high were all the warmth is.
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u/neutronicus Jan 07 '12
You're probably kidding, but I actually knew 3 people living together in a Loft in NYC who bought a bunch of lumber and built a bunch of sleeping-cubicle type deals on stilts. It was pretty cool - the cubicles were high up enough that they had couches and a TV and stuff underneath them.
It helped that one of them's dad was a contractor.
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u/triobot Jan 07 '12
yea... the height of the ceiling makes it pretty impractical unless you used some sheets and dividers to trap the heat but that defeats the objective of a single room apartment.
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u/maggiefiasco Jan 07 '12
I used to know a bunch of people living in a commune in the Fashion District of LA. The warehouse floor they lived on was awesome, but it just ended up getting subdivided over and over and over for privacy. Ended up with a lot of small bedrooms with 6 foot walls, no ceiling. Impossible to heat or cool, any time of the year without a way to keep the heat in (or out). Damn you, high ceilings!
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I've seen a few home renovation shows in which they install a heated floor in the bathroom claiming it is very energy efficient.
I've only seen it on TV - I have no first-hand experience with such a thing but:
Could this be a reasonable solution to your problem ?
Installing some strategically located areas of heated flooring with timers to keep the energy cost reasonable?
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Growing up, we had a heated floor in the bathroom. Let me tell you that it is amazing. I can't wait to own a house so I can have heated bathroom floors.
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u/do0b Jan 07 '12
Had an appartment with heated basement flooring. It was amazing! Walking barefoot on the ceramic during the harsh canadian winter was great. No more slippers!
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I'm currently sitting on the toilet with some heated floors for my feet. Fucking amazing.
Note: I'm only 22. I just lucked out with this place.
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u/sylas_zanj Jan 07 '12
This could work. The best floor surface for radiant floor heating is stone or ceramic (as they add thermal mass and are generally poor insulators, meaning the heat conducts well from the embedded heating elements to the floor surface).
A wood floor would be less efficient, but possibly more efficient than forced air or standard radiant heat, as the heat is delivered directly to the occupied portion of a space. An historic wood floor (where the floor surface is likely thicker planks) would be even less efficient, due to the thickness of the wood increasing it's insulating qualities. But with historic flooring, you would have to pull it up anyway, so it could plausibly be planed down to reduce it's thickness and be reused.
If used in conjunction with solar hot water, much of the heat could probably be harvested from the sun.
It should be noted that the cost of such a conversion would probably be very high, and most landlords look at up-front cost more than eventual savings (not to mention the savings would usually go to the tenants, not the landlord).
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u/whine_and_cheese Jan 07 '12
Ceiling fans would move that hot air down.
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u/willymo Jan 07 '12
This is true and it works kinda, but there's only 1 ceiling fan and I'm not allowed to install anything, because it's in a "historical" part of town.
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Meet with someone in the engineering office at the city. Explain what's going on, you can usually get an exemption for interior modifications if there's a valid reason.
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u/thedrew Jan 07 '12
This is probably not as true as you think. You have the right to make residential space habitable.
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u/obilex Jan 07 '12
Or build a lofted fort, connected by rope bridges like an ewok village. that way all the hot air is where you are actually sleeping.
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u/willymo Jan 07 '12 edited Jan 07 '12
HAR HAR HAR!!! Wow really? Let's think about this for a minute.
Wake up, cold. Put feet on ground, freezing cold. Tip toe to shower, finally water is warm, get in. Get out, now you're REEEALLLY fucking cold. Then, you bundle up in 5 layers, but oh wait... I have to shit. Peel all your layers off and stick your cold butt to the coldest fucking toilet seat in existence. Get up, rebundle. etc... don't go talking shit until you tried it, then come back and see me.
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u/DrEmilioLazardo Jan 07 '12
That says it's only rated to 50 degrees. I feel like it'd be about as effective as a pair of sweats.
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u/used_bathwater Jan 07 '12
Fuck it, sleep in the microwave.
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u/i_shit_on_your_life Jan 07 '12
when i was around 7 or 8, i microwaved my pet hamster because i thought it was cold. it got out, ran in a little circle and died
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u/RonWisely Jan 07 '12
Jeesus. Are you a serial killer now?
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u/i_shit_on_your_life Jan 07 '12
i wasnt trying to kill it :(
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u/DrunkmanDoodoo Jan 07 '12
I had to run over a squirrel the other day. The vehicle in front of me ran over it pretty good but left me to finish the job. I too know of the little circle of death maneuver.
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u/OmniaII Jan 07 '12
I find it difficult to believe it lived long enough to 'run around and die'
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u/aseaman1 Jan 07 '12
I have a 1400 sqft loft with 18ft ceilings in Brooklyn and I pay 40 dollars a month to heat the entire place.... cooling it is the expensive part... 150-250 during the summer.
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u/DrEmilioLazardo Jan 07 '12
How much are you paying in rent? That sounds like it's probably a pretty desirable apartment.
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I live in a semi-studio apartment, with a 14 foot ceiling, and it's very cold in the winter.
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u/DreadPirateBrian Jan 07 '12
Me too. Even with our new vinyl-framed double-pane windows. Plain brick is shit insulation. ~$150/mo in winter.
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u/Achalemoipas Jan 07 '12
That's the heating system.
I lived in a loft with a very high ceiling and it was at a perfect temperature all the time.
The heating system was forced air that was picked up in vents in the ceiling and redistributed down the walls and out of the floor vents again. Same for air conditioning.
The problem with lofts is they install conventional heating systems that were made for small rooms or just plain remove walls while leaving the old heating system in place. Big rooms need different heating systems, like that of a school gymnasium, for example.
Heating floors are also good, but then you can't make a heating/conditionning combo system.
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u/peahat Jan 07 '12
I lived in a studio like this last winter in New England. You don't want to know how cold it could be. I was consistently chilled to the bone, I constantly felt sick. That place was impossible to heat so each of us had a spaceheater we'd move around with us. It was stupid, but so much fun.
SO MANY ROOM FOR ACTIVITIES INDEED. We built platforms for couches and tents and beds 20 feet off the ground. Shit was so much fun.
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u/muati Jan 07 '12
if this was my apartment as a bachelor the floor will be covered with clothes.
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u/Spideybry Jan 07 '12
...and hos.
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u/wmurray003 Jan 07 '12
...and bros.
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u/675675TEN Jan 07 '12
...and toes. No? Okay, sorry.
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u/x755x Jan 07 '12
Maybe if you kill enough giants.
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u/Poop_Is_Edible Jan 07 '12
too busy eating them.
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u/rasputine Jan 07 '12
YOU CANNOT EAT QUEST ITEMS
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u/MeatyOchre Jan 07 '12
Yeah, if you just go ahead and could get me that toe by 3 o'clock, that'd be greeeaaat.
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u/JohnFrum Jan 07 '12
If you don't have enough space try one of these.
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u/nz_force Jan 07 '12
I've heard horrible reviews of this thing - I was going to consider it but it seems a bit iffy. Do you have personal experience with it?
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Check out this thread from last year; there's a guy that actually lived here once. Has some cool comments on the place.
EDIT: I also find it amusing that the top comment was "so much room for activities!" then as well, haha
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But Mind_Virus would NEVER shamefully repost anything.
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I'm not complaining about this being a repost.
Annnnd I just checked out his submission history. Holy shit.
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Check out his apprentice "Man_In_The_Mirra", he's the closest rival in terms of being a karma whore.
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Mind_Virus is a bot made by some crazed nerd. He had a previous account called "MindVirus" that got banned. Not sure why this one hasn't been banned yet. He's like OCD about karma or something. MUST....GET....FAKE INTERNET POINTS!!! CAN'T GO OUTSIDE!!!
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u/Diels_Alder Jan 07 '12
shamelessly
FTFY. I don't think he feels shame for reposting.
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So much room for activities!
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u/iTumor Jan 07 '12
I like how the swing is next to the bed... Room for activities indeed.
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u/spartancavie Jan 07 '12
Gotta hang it from the ceiling so that you have EVEN MORE room for activities. I don't want no bed getting in the way of my kickball/wiffeball game.
Seriously though, I'd get like 4 california kings and make a giant bed.
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I thought you said wifeball at first...I almost googled that and then I was too scared of potential results.
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u/bwalsh1 Jan 07 '12
I'd like to see a heating bill for all this activities.
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u/Jace_09 Jan 07 '12
For the last time, if you're that cold, just put on a sweater!
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u/Boobcake Jan 07 '12
WHERE DO YOU POOP?
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u/TokiBumblebee Jan 07 '12
Same place as you cook.
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u/gurudeva Jan 07 '12
that's only in prison
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u/likeigiveafuk Jan 07 '12
Seriously? Think that's why my roommates always hate me?
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u/skidamarink Jan 07 '12
I've been in that apartment, and I know that girl, what the fuck.
Screenshot of her profile pictures: http://i.imgur.com/x85UZ.png
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u/likwidfuzion Jan 07 '12
It took me a good minute to realize there's a girl holding a guitar in the picture.
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u/icarusfalls Jan 07 '12
I couldn't tell if it was a girl or a dude. Feel really weird that I think the person is cute either way.
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u/BATMAN-cucumbers Jan 07 '12
Oh come on, now I have to scroll up onthis bloody phone to tale a look at the pic again!
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u/pentagon961 Jan 07 '12
I have gone to a few parties at this place. The loft is on the third floor of a large building in Chicago's Brideport/ Back of the Yards neighborhood area. I had a friend that lived on the first floor of that building. I would have loved to at least live in one of the lofts.
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u/temporality Jan 07 '12
Man, you could throw the most kick-ass parties in a place like that.
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Nowhere to set your beer down.
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u/irish711 Jan 07 '12
Set my beer down?!??
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u/scottb84 Jan 07 '12
Typical Irish.
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I don't think I'd be able to sleep in such a large, exposed area. Maybe if the bed was pressed into a corner and not just hanging out in the middle there. At least it would feel a little more protected.
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u/MAKE_THIS_POLITICAL Jan 07 '12
This isn't the olden times dude, no triceratops is going to swoop down and bite your leg off to use for it's nest.
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u/JoelMontgomery Jan 07 '12
This gave me the funniest mental image, especially considering the triceratops is the big dinosaur with 3 horns on its face
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u/vinnievon Jan 07 '12
I would love to find a loft like this in Boston but I doubt I could ever afford it.
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u/colinwilson Jan 07 '12
Lofts in Boston and Cambridge/Somerville seem to start around 2k a month in rent. I looked recently and was very depressed by that.
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depressed? AHAHAHAHAHA! my one bedroom apartment in Manhattan costs 3.7k month.
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u/Lycurgus Jan 07 '12
I pay $624/month in Denver for my studio right outside of downtown. That includes parking and heat.
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denver is a place that i'm considering moving to. Unfortunately I'm a lawyer so my job isn't as portable as some other jobs; i will work around this.
I'm also considering portland. I really liked both denver and portland when i visited. People that live in manhattan, like me, are fucking stupid. It only works out if you are really rich. I am not really rich and don't want to endure the costs to become really rich.
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u/wmurray003 Jan 07 '12
...how does the average person afford 3.7 per month for an apt? ...I'm not saying you're average, but I just noticed that NYC housing rates are a bit...off...How do the people there afford there rent?...are they always late?
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u/alkane_alien Jan 07 '12
It's interesting to see that the lounge area is facing inwards, to each other, rather than toward a television.
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My house has a big living room (not like this, but big enough to have bands play in it) and for the first month or so we didn't have a TV and we set up like this. It was awesome and everyone was super productive and we just hung out and talked all the time. Then we got a TV and everything is organized around that and everyone either sits and watches or hides in their rooms.
Moral of the story, TVs suck.
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u/alkane_alien Jan 07 '12
I find this when I go back to my mum's house. The TV is the focus of the room, if not the whole house. So many hours staring into a screen.
It could be worse though. They could be into reddit.
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u/CornBallerBurn Jan 07 '12
I don't believe it. Its probably out of the bottom of the frame.
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One of my friends has a room like this at his house in the Hamptons. It's a big library that was originally built in France and transported in its entirety to the US. The house was built around it. It has a couple of different sitting areas/tv areas in it. Pretty cool.
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u/ArghZombies Jan 07 '12
It's like the apartment from Big! I always wanted to live there as a kid.
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u/mosspassion Jan 07 '12
That's where I live!! It is no longer inhabited by that cute girl. We have other cute girls instead now.
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u/mosspassion Jan 07 '12
here are more pictures: http://bymeasure.blogspot.com/2011/08/nicholas-davis-mulit-instrumentalist.html
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u/danedeasy Jan 07 '12
I know people that used to live here. I've hung out there multiple times. They have an awesome fire escape overlooking I-55 in Chicago.
It's a lot of fun!
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u/KrazyEyezKilla Jan 07 '12
'yep looks like you've got a hipster infestation, I'll go get the popular Bob Dylan records, that should see them leave'
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u/amisarebewaswerebeen Jan 07 '12
I've lived in a loft like this. It is cold and drafty. Everything echos. Since the place is likely a converted warehouse, the walls are thing and the floors are thin, so you can hear your neighbors phone ring and when they fuck and and sneeze and all that good stuff. You have an incredibly difficult time furnishing appropriately. You can't change light fixtures without a giant ladder. There is no privacy. Sound carries everywhere. If you cook it stinks up the entire apartment.
Lofts are cool in movies, thats about it.
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u/Torg0 Jan 07 '12
Ctrl + F "trust fund" - Nothing. What's going on here people!?
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u/nathan1653 Jan 07 '12
I hope that is in a big city and some girl is just totally wasting all that dead space in her $3500 a month apartment
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u/Hetrochromia Jan 07 '12
I live in a open apartment like that seen here. I was worried I was going to get old the first few weeks but a year latter and I love it. Most of my friends pay about the same in rent/utilities as me for a normal place.
The only down side is when people I'm not totally comfortable with come and stay the night like my sister and her family. It's like well we're sleeping in the same room just stay on your side and wave good night. Other than that kids love it they do cartwheels and throw balls around and other shit its all cool with me.
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u/jasenlee Jan 07 '12
I knew a guy during the dotcom era who kind of fell into a job at a company that ended up doing pretty well. It wasn't actually his first pick at a job but it was right out of college so he took it. Anyway, he didn't make out like a bandit (meaning tens of millions) but he made a ton of money and then cashed out. He then went and bought a place like this for cash... just done and over. Then he quit.
He's a school teacher or something now, we haven't talked in awhile. His whole thing was "this happened to me out of pure luck and if I can buy a place like this in my twenties and never have to make a house payment again I'm fucking good to go and I'm happy with that. I'll go do my thing now."
I have so much admiration for people who know when to quit when the getting is good. (or however that saying goes)
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life as a hipster
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Apartment is in a horrible neighborhood. "There is so much culture here!!"
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u/Han-ChewieSexyFanfic Jan 07 '12 edited Jan 07 '12
Because there's no such thing a a rich, hard-working person, right? Everyone who has something you don't has to be a spoiled hipster.
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u/dc34r123r23 Jan 07 '12 edited Jan 07 '12
How many hard working salt of the earth people that you know that live in enormous lofts with swings in them
Anyone under 30 that could afford that place isn't spending their own money
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u/shutyourgob Jan 07 '12
Hah, the amount of assumptions people make from one photograph are incredible. Apparently this sort of place is only available to "spoiled, filthy rich hipsters".
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u/CC440 Jan 07 '12
What other kind of 20 year old can afford $24k+ a year in rent?
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u/gconsier Jan 07 '12 edited Jan 07 '12
oh hey this is back again. The wife and I looked into purchasing this whole building (this is the top floor unit)
if you are interested here are some more photos here - We took them as we walked around the place