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Lights out at 10. No guests. A single bed with people all around. But a short commute and no need to come up with first, last and brokers fee.
What do you think, will it take off in NYC?
this is the dumbest ish yet .... given the income inequality in this city it will 'take off' sadly. this happens currently in the city - SROish spaces in usually immigrant communities ... but honestly individuals should be looking for rent stabilized units in the city instead of these types of housing options and should push thst over this.
this is the dumbest ish yet .... given the income inequality in this city it will 'take off' sadly. this happens currently in the city - SROish spaces in usually immigrant communities ... but honestly individuals should be looking for rent stabilized units in the city instead of these types of housing options and should push thst over this.
When you say "it" already happens in immigrant communities, I think it most likely looks much different, as there are really specific rules in this PodShare place, and even though it's cheap, it's most likely more expensive than those horrible cage places or houses divided up into tons of tiny makeshift rooms like you might find in immigrant communities.
You stayed at a hostel as a visitor, you weren't living there as your only place of living. Two different experiences. When you sell all your places, stuff and moving into one of these pod shares full time, having been there 3 months then report back to us.
The longest I had stayed at a single hostel had been one month (it was great!), am going to stay in two hostels (two different countries) for a month and a half in the near future (am looking forward!). I came to the US in 1983 with two suitcases to my name, and would have gladly stayed at a place like these pods for a couple of starter years (instead, I stayed for the first year in a tool shed on a top of a building in Upstate NY, without heating or phone connection - this was well before cell phones. When I wanted to call family in Europe, I had to put 20 quarters into a public phone on the street. After that, I lived on a couch in the kitchen of a 1-bdrm apartment otherwise occupied by another graduate student couple who had a newborn baby that howled 24/7. I finished a PhD under these living conditions, and successfully lined up a medical residency in a different state. I actually remember these conditions as a rather exciting time of my life).
People who would choose this type of accommodation, these pods (for either a brief or extended time) typically have things to do. They do not sit around studying the housing law to figure out how to screw the landlord, sue the NYCHA, protest this or that. These are typically young kids on the go, or seniors eager to make the best of their remaining time. These are people who will crash anywhere because they have a life that is centered on something other than obsessing whether the wall paint is lead-based or safely edible. I read about a young man who was on a mission to spend 10 years living 6 months each in a different city while doing temporary jobs - one of these pods would be perfect for him.
Lights out at 10. No guests. A single bed with people all around. But a short commute and no need to come up with first, last and brokers fee.
What do you think, will it take off in NYC?
I spent my youth living in school dorms with lots of other people sleeping in bunk beds. Between privacy and fun, I go for the latter because I enjoy having people around me 24/7. It would be my choice if I was still single, but I would be cautious about who I am sharing the pod with because I used to live among a homogeneous population pod mates with clean background.
The hostel I stayed at in Denver had bedbugs on every surface and everyone in the room was an opioid addict working for a call center.
Well, I don't stay at that type of hostels. There is the Internet nowadays to find out what places are like. Again, I have a good experience with hostels. I had used them in Europe when I was 20ish, then briefly under emergent conditions about a decade ago when I had a building fire (had to stay somewhere emergently until I got organized) - when I was reminded how much I had liked them 30 years earlier, and then used them quite extensively in my 50s, ie, in the last 7 years since my boyfriend died and I've been traveling solo. As I said, slightly more expensive hostels with good online reviews tend to be extremely pleasant places. While the situation with four doctors in the hostel room in Denver was a bit unique, people that I got to meet at good hostels where I have stayed tended to be totally decent, and often amazingly interesting. Even if it didn't save me tons of money, hostel would be my preferred travel accommodation. As a solo traveler, I feel safer sharing a hostel room, plus good/slightly more costly hostels tend to be infinitely nicer and more comfortable than even mid-range hotels.
There are ten or so hostels in Denver. We obviously did not stay at the same one :-).
I'd rather pay an extra $200-300 or so for some other co-living like Common, where at least you get your own bedroom and no curfew than be in one of these pods for more than a few days.
....People who would choose this type of accommodation, these pods (for either a brief or extended time) typically have things to do. They do not sit around studying the housing law to figure out how to screw the landlord, sue the NYCHA, protest this or that. These are typically young kids on the go, or seniors eager to make the best of their remaining time. These are people who will crash anywhere because they have a life that is centered on something other than obsessing whether the wall paint is lead-based or safely edible. ....
i get the plucky immigrant boot-strappy narrative ... but really you're going to blame teething toddlers over the leadership of the biggest public housing portfolio in the country which has one of the most egregious lead paint issues. glad to see you're putting the analytical skills gained during that PhD to work
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Originally Posted by Henna
When you say "it" already happens in immigrant communities, I think it most likely looks much different, as there are really specific rules in this PodShare place, and even though it's cheap, it's most likely more expensive than those horrible cage places or houses divided up into tons of tiny makeshift rooms like you might find in immigrant communities.
sadly i do remember this travesty but i was thinking more about the spaces i visited in the city(Queens, Brooklyn) with a friend (a canadian grad student) where it was warehouse space parsed into an SRO-ish space - lock on bed/personal room door with no cooking space bathroom in an external hallway. the cost was slightly more than the pod article stated - i believe it was $45 a day and $1300 for the month for the one she went with. She said most of the folks in the other spaces where folks with J1/H1-B1 visas or fellow students. she explained that the practice in the city is to charge international students/folks upwards to a years worth of rent to move in a space (the rationale given to her was she doesn't have a credit history so the LL is asking for a bigger deposit for the risk of renting to someone without a history).
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