Eh, it works for them. If you don't have a desire for much stuff then it works fine.<p>I'm in a relatively spacious ~550sqft 1BR and I don't really know what I'd do with more space than that. However, unlike some of the people interviewed, I do get lots of light and it's in a nice area.
Dup: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1903833" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1903833</a> (which also, conveniently, is the printed word and not audio or video, which is just plain annoying).<p>But I guess the difference between then and now was then I lived in Australia. Now I pay through the nose to live in Manhattan. But hey, I'm not 20-something. :P