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This apartment building has it all. Or hasn't?
The "dystopian" apartment, known as the Regent International, is located in Qianjiang Century City, notably in Hangzhou's major business district.
Regent International has previously gone viral on social media as a result of TikTok videos about the myriad amenities that it offers to residents.
Essentially, anything one might find "in town" can be found within the "dystopian apartment".
It offers some pretty impressive interiors, with flats that have a selection of different layouts.
Is that a utopia of convenience, or a dystopian nightmare?
Considering housing shortage, rising costs of living in the US and "desperate times call for desperate measures" would you want to live in such apartment when working from home?
You wouldn't even need to have a car and associated costs.
My first thought on seeing the second photo in the first link is that it looks like a pod in prison.
No way would I want to live like that. I want to go outside with my dog to play on the beach, or in a forest. I want to go outside when it's raining or snowing. I want to get into my car and explore.
I've lived in many apartments, or houses converted into 'apartments'. Sometimes I get lucky and have great neighbors, sometimes I get terrible neighbors. The less neighbors, the better they seem to be.
I can't deal with 30,000 neighbors right there, in my face, all day, every day. Someone will cook fish, or burn their popcorn, or smoke their marijuana and stink everything up. Some will play tv or music too loud. Some fight and argue all the time. You can't escape "that creepy guy", or the nosy Karen.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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I agree with Three Wolves, that does sound like Hell. Even on a day like today with our "atmospheric river" dumping rain and heavy winds I have been outside twice and it's only 7:36am. On the days I work in the office I go outside and take a walk at least 2-3 times a day. Besides that need to be outdoors, I had an apartment when I moved out at age 19 while in college, and would never live with neighbors that close again. Our house today is on 1/3 acre with no neighbors visible, and the family room/kitchen wall all windows. From every window in the house you see trees.
People with money have choices, others need to compromise.
Those apartments seem to be very affordable, although I don't know how it relates to other costs of living and wages.
This probably won't fly in the US, YET. But wait few years and see how many people will be able to afford own house with a yard and car in the garage.
See how much you need to pay for a miniature apartment in US big cities like LA, SF, or NYC.
More and more hard working Americans are priced out of their "dream" and some rent has grown beyond budgets pushing more people into poverty and homelessness.
This probably won't fly in the US, YET. But wait few years and see how many people will be able to afford own house with a yard and car in the garage.
See how much you need to pay for a miniature apartment in US big cities like LA, SF, or NYC.
More and more hard working Americans are priced out of their "dream" and some rent has grown beyond budgets pushing more people into poverty and homelessness.
Housing unaffordability in North America is not in any way related to a general lack of space. North America is actually one of the larger continents and we have raw room to expand the population without the need for that super dense housing. Housing unaffordability is driven by how and where we distribute jobs. People generally have to live near employment opportunities and for some reason we concentrate the good employment opportunities into very limited areas.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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As long as there are single family homes someone will own them, and someone will live in them. What we see today that may get worse in the future is that demand out paces availability, mostly because of the high prices. Developers continue to build them, though with smaller yards due to the high cost of land, and enough people can afford them to keep them building, even at 4,000 sf and $2 million. Meanwhile the existing homes with bigger yards cost even more as very few are being built and those are custom. Here it's the proximity to the good tech jobs while being in a semi-rural, wooded area.
I don't get the supposed appeal of this idea, the idea of never going outside. I guess if it's raining or it below zero I'd want to stay indoors, but what, forever? Nope.
I don't get the supposed appeal of this idea, the idea of never going outside. I guess if it's raining or it below zero I'd want to stay indoors, but what, forever? Nope.
It would work well if we had a need to house people in harshest parts of Siberia or Antarctica.
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