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Today’s Blog Post
Small Places – Big People
“Those 30 suites, which will come with built-in wall beds, tables and flat-screen TVs, will rent for an average of $750 a month.”
Imagine everything that you might need for only $750 a month!
I have a feeling that with the apartment size at 270 square feet, they need to rent everything with it – in that they had to build around the stuff in… the place is too small to move any thing into it except your body and a few suitcases.
My thoughts were drawn to the guys that I talked to yesterday. They all came from prison recently. The small rooms they live in are adequate – probably about 150 sq ft. Yet in comparison to their 75 to 80 square feet of cell space for the last 15 years or so… the room they have now is huge.
I was in a restaurant yesterday as well. There next to me was the biggest blob I have ever seen. He had a tray of food that included two Big Macs and lots of French fries.
Some one living in the newly built condos in Vancouver could not invite this dude over for a visit. He was way too big.
Looking at the photo above I cannot see chairs that might support the Big Guy eating hamburgers.
My world has changed. I used to share small rooms with my brother. Sometimes we slept in the same bed. Then we grew and so did the necessary space to accommodate big, loud and obnoxious teenagers – that sometimes were at war with each other.
When I lived in Hong Kong I witnessed the most impossible situation for accommodations EVER! My friend Henry and I went over to Macao to take part in a special service for some folks there. We dropped by one apartment (actually a room) to try and locate a man that we knew.
When we knocked on the door some one opened it. I wanted to write, ‘came to the door’ – but that didn’t happen. He simply rolled over and opened it.
The room was about 15’ by 20’ and it was wall to wall bunk beds with no space in between each bed. There was a small path in the centre of the room. To get to your bed you needed to crawl across other people’s bunks to get to yours. As the door opened about 25 faces were looking towards the door from the bunks. They were watching the one TV located at the door and facing in. The light from the TV was lighting their faces.
Heaven help you if you were by the door on that bunk and some guy inside the room needed to go to the bathroom late at night.
Our world is changing. People are not needing as much space as they did before. The Seniors find that out as the years go by… down sizing is their second nature – one year at a time.
Now the young adults are seeing the necessity in Vancouver.
I am becoming a Senior… slowly. I am seeing the nightmare of too much stuff. Slowly I am paring back things. Got to get it done. I don’t my kids to hate me later.
My final place to sleep that rather long night is to be about 24 inches wide, 18 inches high and maybe 7 feet long… or it could be 18 inches high and kind of roundish with a lid.
Thanks to the Vancouver folk – I think I will start cleaning out some more today. Yikes!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Source
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/the-incredible-shrinking-condo/article1443864/
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