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    Carmellio Sampers Peter Yeh
    8/05/16 5:49pm

    I don’t know if anyone has noticed this but there are a lot of Chinese I mean a lot of them all up in the place. Go to Paris, London, New York City. And they will eat everything, ride on everthing, rent everything and buy everything that isn’t nailed down. The are the marginal demand that drives up the price of all the shit that anyone in these countries want or need and normally could afford like duck, apartments, bus and subway train rides and pocket books and macarons.

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      AntiMilitiaMilitiaCarmellio Sampers
      8/05/16 10:26pm

      Wow, old school racism is still alive, huh? Maybe instead of blaming one ethnic group you should look to economics for guidance.

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      Carmellio SampersAntiMilitiaMilitia
      8/05/16 10:55pm

      I’m sorry if this appeared to be racist. The target was the non virtuous economic system of the Western economies depending on marginal demand for QoL goods and services from groups external to their domestic population while simultaneously denying (through very bad trade and industrial policy) internal groups’ access to meaningful employment. The economies of most Western European countries and the UK do this to some extent and the US does this to a greater extent. When people in the West say things like “these jobs are never coming back” they often have no idea this is pure bullshit.

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    Sid and Financy Peter Yeh
    8/05/16 4:13pm

    How am I supposed to vomit up Maker’s Mark all night with that wall in the way? That wall is a bug, not a feature.

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      CatdogWhispererSid and Financy
      8/05/16 4:18pm

      As a certified Makers Mark Ambassador, I need you to know that you’re doing it wrong. The correct way to expel Maker’s from one’s body is through gut-cramping morning poops that smell slightly fruity. Like a gentleman. You, sir, are disgusting.

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      Dave Sid and Financy
      8/05/16 4:21pm

      Now a wall that retracts...that would be something!

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    Dave Peter Yeh
    8/05/16 4:04pm

    This space would go just under $3,500 a month in certain neighborhoods of NYC.

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      toobadsosadDave
      8/05/16 4:11pm

      I’d never rent this place. Look at the floor plan. The door opens the wrong way. Can’t handle that.

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      monstrosityDave
      8/05/16 4:12pm

      In Vancouver people would be outbidding each other for this as an investment...bathroom?

      http://time.com/money/4193804/…

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    dothedew Peter Yeh
    8/05/16 4:23pm

    A) The guy in the mock-up doesn’t even look asian

    B) Everyone knows Asians are smaller and don’t need much space.

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      Althea the Bootstrapwomandothedew
      8/05/16 4:42pm

      Y’know, you have to have good knees to live like that.

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      Fred Garvin Male Prostitutedothedew
      8/05/16 5:53pm

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    Luvmuffin Peter Yeh
    8/05/16 4:11pm

    My poop alone would fill that room each morning.

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      Cat Adam DriverLuvmuffin
      8/05/16 4:23pm

      I wipe standing up, so this housing arrangement would not work for me.

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      Mr.Spaghetti! The Gentildouche YearsLuvmuffin
      8/05/16 5:50pm

      But enough about the Rio Olympics!

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    DontBeSuchaBoobPunchTina Peter Yeh
    8/05/16 11:44pm

    At just five feet long, you would have to lay on your side...

    Lie. You would have to lie on your side. Someone called “Abnormal Abram” got it right, come on.

    We lay carpet; we lie down.

    Anyway yes this is kinda horrifying and certainly would be very uncomfortable, though for the price I guess it beats no shelter at all, which is probably the alternative. Just a place to rest (restlessly) and wash.

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      Maxine Floeffler, Super DelegateDontBeSuchaBoobPunchTina
      8/06/16 11:29am

      Thanks for this.

      Lay/lie seems a strange hill to die on but:

      When my now-husband and I got together back in the Stone Age we got our first of many dogs. We train(ed) them ourselves and he used to say, “Lay down!” and the dog would obey. And I would say, “Unless you’re going to pick up that dog and place [him/her] in a prone position, you mean ‘Lie down.’”

      It took years but now, for example, our current dog knows to “Lie down.”

      This backfired on me once when we were in bed watching something edifying like “Judge Judy” and a friend called him to go out, I overheard the conversation, and he said, “I’m tired and lying in bed,” and the friend said, “You ADMIT you’re lying about being in bed. We’re going to meet around 9.”

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      DontBeSuchaBoobPunchTinaMaxine Floeffler, Super Delegate
      8/06/16 12:51pm

      Classic!

      I can’t even bring myself to use “Lay down” with a dog that I know was trained to the error. Fortunately, doggies are pretty smart and many get it either way!

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    raincoaster Peter Yeh
    8/05/16 6:04pm

    I actually got conned into renting something like that in Vancouver once. A FB friend (we’d connected on social media over Occupy) had a “large, furnished, private room with a separate entrance” for rent in Vancouver, and I was between pet-sitting gigs and just wanted a place to stay and rest for a month, so I took it. For $290 if I recall.

    I get there, and instead of a “large, furnished, private room” it was actually a hallway leading to the washer-dryer with an army cot pushed up against the dryer and a string suspended between pipes to hang your clothes on. It had been a large unfinished room, until someone put a room inside it, which was rented out to a Korean student. The day before I arrived the toilet backed up, and there were puddles of sewage everywhere.

    It was a very good thing that he booted me out when I refused to falsify some papers for Welfare (he was of course renting everything out under the table, and I should probably turn him in for fraud some day I have the time). A different friend messaged and offered me two weeks in her idyllic Deep Cove studio overlooking the inlet. Best vacation ever!

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      BurnerWhenIPeeBraincoaster
      8/05/16 6:18pm

      “I actually got conned into renting something like that in Vancouver once. A FB friend (we’d connected on social media over Occupy) had a “large, furnished, private room with a separate entrance” for rent in Vancouver, and I was between pet-sitting gigs and just wanted a place to stay and rest for a month, so I took it.”

      OK

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    eXtofer Peter Yeh
    8/05/16 7:18pm

    Where did you find that New York is #7? I checked the report you’re referencing and SF is #7. New York is #18 on the list.

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      K JeXtofer
      8/06/16 12:31am

      Stopped reading at Las Vegas. LV is quite affordable, assuming you aren’t Howard Hughes-ing it in a penthouse on the strip.

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      GlennBeckCheetoStainK J
      8/06/16 2:55pm

      The list goes the other way. Most->least affordable.

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    Fred Smith Peter Yeh
    8/05/16 4:19pm

    I’m guessing its first enthusiastic tenant will be Navin R. Johnson.

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      2016 Peter Yeh
      8/05/16 9:23pm

      This is luxury compared to some living arrangements. Some people live in CAGES in this city. Literally in CAGES.

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