Coliving: Dorms for Grownups

These are a thing in Japan. Not sure how common they are. One of my co-workers now in is 40s recently moved into one.<p>They generally advertise you&#x27;ll have an active social live in the shared space and they advertise beautiful shared spaces. I&#x27;ve never been so I don&#x27;t know if the ads live up to reality.<p>A few links<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.social-apartment.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.social-apartment.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hituji.jp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hituji.jp&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tokyosharehouse.com&#x2F;jpn&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tokyosharehouse.com&#x2F;jpn&#x2F;</a><p>Note there have been crappy shared living houses for ever, for example an infamous one that targets foreigners is Sakura House<p>The new thing is advertising them as better than living alone and dressing them up, including organizing activities like shared dinners etc..

These are already a thing in Seattle--they call them &#x27;apodments&#x27;: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;pacific-nw-magazine&#x2F;seattles-micro-housing-boom-offers-an-affordable-alternative&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;pacific-nw-magazine&#x2F;seattles-mic...</a> There&#x27;s a lot of controversy around them though as they&#x27;re in a gray area of regulations. Developers want to take existing buildings, gut them, and rebuild as apodments without adding extra parking or other facilities that a denser building would need.

Right now I&#x27;m hunting for second-hand apartment rentals in the most boring and unattractive parts of Sweden because I work remotely, don&#x27;t need excitement, am okay with being alone, and can&#x27;t afford big city rent—plus there are no apartments to rent in major Swedish cities unless you&#x27;ve been in the right queue for 15 years. I&#x27;d move into one of these things tomorrow if I could. Nothing is less interesting to me than owning furniture or signing long contracts. Yes, I am a millenial.

&quot;Evans plans to create an online recruiting process that will help him select applicants who fit into the community.&quot;<p>Gotta be careful of those discrimination laws.

Why limit to millenials? This seems like it could be tailored to be a good solution for the poor or fixed-income elderly as well.

I detest the idea of living in a space where I could not open a window. I barely tolerate it in an office environment.

Shared living as a middle aged man. Sounds like the ninth inner circle of hell to me. The one just after the eighth inner circle where you freeze in liquid nitrogen for eternity.

I wonder if this kind of thing is starting up more simply due to the rise in the age of first marriages?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoplease.com&#x2F;ipa&#x2F;A0005061.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoplease.com&#x2F;ipa&#x2F;A0005061.html</a>

Why doesn&#x27;t Y-combinator have such, I always wondered. Small bedrooms and small offices, I mean. It would save a lot of money for startups and it would also let them mingle a lot, maybe too much :)

I thought about this idea a while back when I saw an article about modernizing the concept of the trailer park home. I guess cultural grouping could be bad if it lead to more homogeneous thinking, but maybe it could occur naturally on a smaller scale in the same building and provide a different dynamic of interaction, kind of like what you see in some neighborhoods in NYC.

These stories are becoming tiresome. &quot;Millenials&quot; did not invent living in a house with roommates, or coops, or boarding houses, or SROs, or any of the living arrangements that have existed for centuries that pre-date scumbags in San Francisco trying to charge foolish engineers $1,000 for a bunk.

Is there a plan to make this website render on Mobile Firefox?

already posted twice over past 3 days, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10523455" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10523455</a>