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Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly
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661 sq ft is smaller than my shitty apartment.
I've found that it really, really depends on how well the space is used. I lived in an apartment that was about 650sq ft with me, a chihuahua, and sometimes a retriever if I had a foster, but the layout was terrible and there was no storage, so it felt super cramped. Then my ex and I had a 700-ish sq ft place with 2 small dogs and it never felt claustrophobic. I've also toured tiny homes in the <350sq ft range that I'd pick over some apartments twice that size. The houses might be ok if they aren't just "take a regular floorplan and shrink all the rooms."
Yeah the reason I deem the apartment ‘shitty’ is mostly the way it’s laid out and lack of storage. For example, the kitchen has exactly one drawer. One. Which is too narrow to put a tray in to hold flatware so the cooking paraphernalia is in there and my flatware is in a tray sitting on the counter. The use of space in here is really weird. Still, that’s a good amount of money for a small space.