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My apartment is 4,300 sqft. Is it like 400 square meters?

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I just developed claustrophobia watching this depressing video

Oh my god. I'm so happy now. I was considering my garden shed small and it's 10 m2.

How interesting. Thank you for the insight.

People are learning to live in cars and mini vans. Very small places.

It's obviously not the ideal living conditions, but i would stay there even for a couple years if it can give an opportunity to get a glimpse of a culture , a mentality , that is far more sophisticated than the one in a 3rd world. I live in a pad that has sufficient space , but because of the general mentality, the high level of aggression due to poor economic conditions, the general lack of integrity, uninspiring architecture and poor artistic taste i just stay indoors most of the time and avoid unnecessary interaction and look outside through social media

Yikes

I think it's a common thing forr all big cities in Europe. For example in London the famous semi-detached houses ar split in two. One at ground floor and one at first one. In Italy a lot of old central houses in Rome, Bologna, Siena, Arezzo, Venice and Florence have been renovated for location as Bad & Brekfast.

Minimum living space here is by law 14 square meters per person

I can under why being slim is a bonus in Paris

I had a friend with a maid's room apartment, but it had a shower. Many many stairs straight up.

It’s horrible to see people forced to live in such tiny spaces and equally horrible to see their are people happy to make money from them.

I'm single and my home is 1300 square feet. I live in New York. I couldn't imagine living in a closet.

is that artist chinese?? he can just move to china and live like a millionaire compared to that lol. I guess he REALLY wants to be a painter! Thats love for your art lol

I wish our rent was that cheap in Wellington NZ

J'habite au Canada. I live in Canada and my house is about 2000 square feet. It's not big enough for our family of 4 but we can't afford to renovate it and make it bigger. Sometimes I just wish I could spend a month in a tiny apartment in Paris though just to experience it.

Das ist Käfighaltung für Menschen. Da ist ja eine Gefängniszelle bestimmt größer. Absolut unmenschlich.

Das ist Käfighaltung für Menschen. Da ist ja eine Gefängniszelle bestimmt größer. Absolut unmenschlich.

The choose to paint and not work.

seeing these apts are not for claustrophobic people, I live in approximately 1000 sq ft 2.5 bedrooms. The smallest apt I have lived in was 400-500 sq ft. there is no way I would be able to live in that small of space. I live in the U.S. This makes so very blessed. They are even smaller then a hole in a wall.

Could you get around the granter if you were to pay a full years rent up front? and would that make you more likely to get the apartment. When my daughter and her girlfriend got there 1st place here in the US that is what she did, of course they got the money from there parents. They were students moving to a new city so had not establish jobs yet.

The history in this is so interesting! Thank you for doing this!

As a french and a witness of the events described, i can say that this video is very accurate.

Inhumane!

Apartments in Paris are expensive because much more people want to go from Toulouse, Bordeaux or Rennes to Paris than vice-versa. This was not the case in the late 50' or early 60'. My parents went from Paris to Strasbourg in 1958, and I went from Strasbourg to Paris in 1983. I am not persuaded they were right to move to Strasbourg, but I am persuaded I was right to move to Paris. Excessive housing costs in capital-towns are a nuisance for everybody, but the reason for that is the incapacity of non-capital towns to remain attractive and to offer good opportunities. I own a 80 sq m haussmanian ex-"chambres de bonnes" apartment I bought 30 years ago for about 200k€

This is making me feel like my 51m2, 2 BRM place is a mansion.

Izlerken ruhum daraldi.😅😀

People need to start leaving the big cities and refuse to live like that.

You can buy a house for 50k outside Paris. 😂

May I ask. You said 9 sq m is the legal limit but the first man’s was 5 and where does he have to boo to use a bathroom….?

Mr Son should go back to China if he wants more space.

I have known several people who rented out houses to long term tenants. Two of them had their houses demaged, one of those actually destroyed the house. Gutted it and then ran a hose into it. The other guy had to constantly battle to get his money from tenants even when he rented to someone he worked with. Personally, I can see the attraction of renting through airbnb. They make more money and bad tenants are picked up and cut out pretty quickly.

A Van is more comfortable

Short-term rentals should be illegal. Even in the States, they're stealing what little housing we have left. Insane that this is going on everywhere!

My house in the US is 78m². It's more than enough room for me and 2 dogs. The older I get the less space I need. 😂

I was lucky when I was a student. My home was tiny, though certainly not 5m², but using second-hand furniture, my dad created lots of built-in cupboards and drawers. I had a huge amount of storage for very little cost. People say that you need to live minimalistically to cope in small spaces, but the secret is to have plenty of storage and furniture that does double duty. After college, I upgraded to 20m² and followed the same plan. I lived there for 35 years until I inherited a two bedroomed house. Sometimes, I would like to downsize, but I enjoy having a garden and a large bathroom.

Hi Rita from New Zealand 👋 I just found your channel from your micro apartments video. You have a great presentation style & sense of humour 😄 where I live there are plenty of noisy cars & helicopters too 🙄😆

My house is 1800 square feet. I live in the countryside in the USA.

Reminds me of the classic scene with Gene Kelly in his garret apartment in An American In Paris!

My apartment in Ontario Canada is at least 100 m². I have two bedrooms and each room is extremely large. It also includes all my utilities plus a parking space. I’ve been here for 12 years and in today’s prices my apartment would more than double in rent. I’m protected by the landlord and tenant Tribunal.

One to 4%?! That's a bargain compared to the US. We have had 12%, 8%, 6% now; during the downturn, though, we had more like 1% to 4%. That will never happen again.

Well that’s depressing. All those empty apartments are a crime. That’s why so many cities are banning Airbnb. It’s completely upsetting the housing market so locals can’t find places to live.

My 1st job after uni was in the capital (in SE Asia). I rented a space/bunk bed in a private dormitory. I had the upper bunk coz the lower ones were already occupied. Room was maybe 10 sqm and we were 4 in the room (2 bunk beds). We each had a small closet for our stuff. Eating area (a small table + 3 chairs) and bathrooms were shared. Cooking wasn't allowed but you could order food from the landlady, who lived in a house beside the dorm. There was space for doing laundry (hand-wash only). We were 4 in my room but 10 ppl total in the house/ dorm. Dorm was maybe 40 sqm but 2-storey (20 m2 per floor). It was just a place for sleeping & eating. Now, I live in a smaller city. My rented apt is 24 sqm and I live alone. I used to have a flatmate but when she moved out, I didn't get another one. In the flat beside me (same owner, same size flat), 2 ppl share the space. You learn to make do with the space you have. Btw, I have seen bunk beds being rented out to immigrants/ foreign workers in Milan, Italy. In the docu, 16-20 ppl were sharing a flat. They had shifting work schedules and the occupants made schedules when they would use the kitchen-dining areas. Bathrooms were shared.

City life has city price! 😊

The Japanese man could buy some tall shelves to store things and give himself space for a bed. Also he could go to the public baths for a shower and toilet.....🇬🇧

Let’s be real…IMMIGRATION is the culprit.

3:58 ok, but I guess he could organize his room better with a bed that is higher so he has place under it to use for storage. And shelves and maybe boxes so it is not such a mess… When I was a student in 2000, my room was 2m on 4m and I lived in it for 2 years, I had a lot of shelves and even a sink, and a refrigerator and microwave on it. I had a little table to sit at on my bed.

Should be illegal to rent anything under 40 m2.

In 1978 it was the same, people lived in these conditions. No water, no kitchen, the toilet in the landing. Nothing changed, it was a shock for me. Mah…