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That's some real "Outside of the box" thinking there, got to hand it to them. At these prices, why not simply build "artificial islands", as China has done, in order to claim additional territorial waters? I would imagine anyone renting a 50 s.f. "pod" would avoid going "home" as much as possible. So what's the point? I'd rather get a small van or RV and live in it, if you could find a place to park it.
But wouldn't it be much more economical to simply put in some kind of high-speed train or monorail, maybe like spokes on a wheel, to allow people to be able to commute inland twenty or thirty miles in a reasonable amount of time, to new suburban areas? If done properly, I could see it "crashing" SF property values, so maybe that's why there would be resistance to it. When I was young (in the original "Dirty Harry" / Streets of San Francisco") era, I always thought SF would be a great place to live, or vacation in. Today, I have no desire to even visit there. So while I can understand people wanting to work there for a "big" salary, why in God's Name would anyone not making the Big Bucks want to live there at the current asking prices, if you were able to commute there in less than an hour each way?
You notice he was whispering to avoid annoying the other guests. The Japanese culture is different than ours. They prize courtesy and unobtrusiveness. I doubt if a similar setup in San Francisco would be as clean, quiet or as comfortable for long.
The society I remember in our state as a boy, stressed politeness and consideration for others. There were no discipline problems in classrooms, as teachers were respected. Any student who acted-up in class would have been quickly subdued by peer-pressure from the rest of us. Our neighbors were never subjected to disturbances and we enjoyed the same. Things started going to Hell here, when we were besieged by hordes of emigrants from the Eastern big cities, who thought they were escaping from the mess they'd made back there. Instead, they just brought it out here with them.
SF would be fine, NYC not so much. If the people using them were of the level of business class flyers, it would be very quiet and clean. From the pov of a business traveler as myself, the eastern half of the US is extremely more in your line of thoughts and the western half is.
Poor screening in the name of "not stepping on toes / getting hit with a lawsuit" would indeed let that one bad apple impact an entire row / floor of these things.
You notice he was whispering to avoid annoying the other guests. The Japanese culture is different than ours. They prize courtesy and unobtrusiveness. I doubt if a similar setup in San Francisco would be as clean, quiet or as comfortable for long.
Capsule hotels have been around for decades and people don’t live in them. They just use them to stay for a night or even for a few hours. They do have a lot of one-room apartments. The standard size is typically around 6 tatami, which is just under 100sqft. A lot of apartments are also loft style with a bed upstairs and the living area/kitchen/bath downstairs and a washing machine that might be on a balcony. As four courtesy and unobtrusiveness, that may be the case, but I lived over people who decided having band practice at 11pm on a weeknight and coming home drunk and slamming cabinets and fighting was absolutely ok. So no, not everyone values unobtrusiveness. It is no different than living in the US.
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