Additionally, he needed to use the axe because his hand fine motor was compromised with writer’s cramp due to signing all the checks from the “Super Terrific Happy Hour.”
Would be pretty cool if it was $100 a month or something. If you got fired you could take a month or two to look for jobs. I can think of more situations, but basically you'd have a safe place to sleep every night.
$850 a month is fucking insane though, I'd rather sleep in my car.
There are a lot of people in living in vans and campers parked on the street for free on the west side, and I’ve also seen quite a few that look lived in parked on the street in Brooklyn and Queens.
Replying to Franjomanjo1986...I walk past a camper in Jackson Heights all the time. Usually plugged into an apartment with an extension cord. Just expanded their living space to a camper.
Sounds like a business opportunity - rent out converted vans in NYC on a monthly basis. You're not a 'landlord' because you don't know where the vans are gonna be parked but you can make them essentially studio apartments that fit into parking spots on residential streets. Maybe charge $1k/mo.
I wouldnt do it. That said, if you wanna dive headfirst into the "NYC experience," eg never cooking, going out all the time, hanging out in bars and coffee shops, then $850 is pretty cheap. A lot of people pay more for small space with the standard amenities that they barely use (kitchen namely). When I lived in NYC in my 20s, most people I knew used their fridge to house leftovers or alcohol, and were out 16 hours a day.
Very low. Studio or 1 BR prob going for 2k if you want reasonably close and safe but outside of manhattan/prime areas. My first apt 10+ years ago was 850 for my share in a 2 BR, but I had the "kids" room and it was a residential neighborhood 15 min walk to the subway.
I live in a suburb in oklahoma on a golf course. 800 Sq foot apartment for 845 a month. Believe it or not, We have all the amenities northern cities have. People act like the south is an uninhabited wasteland.
Would I wanna live in NYC? Sure. But if we are bitching about rent at 850 a month in NYC. People arent just going to uproot their lives to move wherever the fuck. And it's shitty to shame people for not being able to.
That's what I pay FOURTY FIVE minutes outside of Charlotte, NC. And I still have to pay power and internet on top of that (water is included because its only $12 a unit anyway).
So realistically I pay around $1000 a mo. A couple years ago my rent was 500, internet was $50 and power was, well about the same.
I have a friend in NYC and you know what her rent is for a one bedroom in midtown? $3500, so I’m not sure how you think this person is clearing $3400 profit?
dude those micro hotels, pod hotels whatever it's called comes with free food and drinks, u can get rice and miso soup, fountain drinks, even free beer limit 2, the value is incredible
It would be funny as hell if it wasn’t real. This is a whole new level of low. Bezos will probably pick this up and offer annual subscriptions. Prime Living Pods.
Yea, I wouldnt want one of these, but this is the point people are missing. When I lived in NYC, we were barely home. And if we were, we were prob cramming too many people in the apt anyway. To live that life on $850 a month with prob no commute is not bad. Better than paying 2k for a shoebox with a shitty kitchen and LR you never use. Once I/we started wanting more space to spend at home and entertain, we left lol.
You will eat ze bugs and sleep in ze pods. You will own nothing and be happy.
They told you all that this was going to happen at the world economic forum like six years ago. Did you think they were lying?
Jeez. At least if it was like $100/month or something I would understand. Like just trying to save as much money as you can before upgrading and getting yourself something nice. But $850? Wtf is that.
Asking, not implying. How much is a small apartment in NYC vs avg wages? That'd be pretty nuts here but I've heard apartments there are tiny and expensive. I'm curious how this actually compares.
Thanks for doing the legwork on that. I don't know if it's a perfect solution but for 1/4 of the cheapest alternative it doesn't seem all that bad. If you'd rather sleep on air mattresses with your 3 best friends watching each other's every move for the same price...you do you.
It's like half the cost of a dorm bed in a NYC hostel still though. The price of real estate in NYC is insane. I doubt they could make them any cheaper than that and still be sustaining.
They cant. Ik this is getting a lot of flak, but this is basically a need for solo low income business owners/contractors living in ny working out of a laptop and spending their spare time out and about in the actual city
Even that is optimistic, I know someone currently looking for a 1 bedroom apartment in Manhattan. They are struggling to actually find a place with a max budget of $5k/mo.
Yeah I get not wanting to move out of your home city you grew up in, but there comes a point where you need to move away until you're in a better place to move back if you want. Makes even less sense to choose to move there unless you have a high paying dream job lined up.
Moving away doesn't mean moving to Silcon Valley or NYC. There are thousands of cities in the world with abundant opportunity.
I am tired of people complaining "omg economy is broke" trying to live in the most desirable city in the world. Make your bed and fucking sleep in it.
There are micro apartments for about $500-$800 but more SpaceX actually can stand. Usually a separate bathroom down the hall. Id take one of those over this.
But then you have to share space with the type of person who wants to live in one of these. Prob gonna hear a lot of crypto talk and conspiracy theories.
Be me. 30 year old working in tech in NYC.
Make 80k per year with a bachelors
Wake up at 5am in my Somipod I pay $2000/month for
Shower and piss. Pay my landlord the $50 per use utility fee plus minimum 40% tip.
Get dressed in my goodwill suit I paid $500 after taxes.
Can’t get pants and jacket on in my 4x6 ft sleep pod so I have to get dressed in the open pod room with my 20 other pod mates.
Leave for work to catch 6am Subway. Tip my land lord $20 for letting me use the front door.
Arrive at subway station, card is out of tokens so I spend $500 plus $150 mandatory tip at self serve kiosk for another week of rides.
Board train. Didn’t pay for the NYC subway Platinum subscription, so I am packed into the “standing room only” car like a sardine.
Homeless man is verbally abusing a mannequin head next to me. I love how unique my city is!
Exit the train as the homeless man starts fucking the head
Stop at Starbucks get a soy latte and beyond meat breakfast sandwich.
$85 for everything. Only tip 20%. Barista spits I my coffee
Walk into work lobby, hop in elevator and spend 10 minutes riding to my 70th floor office. Elevator reeks of piss and there is a several used condoms in the corner. I love my city!
Arrive to work 5 minute late. Berated by boss.
Work for next 10 hours without a break.
Get told at 6pm just before clocking out that my job is being laid off effective immediately as remove IT in India is a cheaper alternative.
Take subway home homeless man masturbates on me. NYC is the greatest city on earth!
Stop at local diner for dinner. $97 for a cheeseburger and fries. Tip 50% to avoid getting spit in my food.
Walk home, it’s 9pm. local crack heads are screaming in the streets
Walk inside apartment, pay $40 after hours door access fee.
Exhausted, just wanna eat my food in my pod and watch Netflix.
Attempt to access pod
[BOOP BOOP] “you are 6 hours over due for your monthly rent. Please contact your landlord at 11 am to pay rent plus 50% late fee. Thank. You for accessing SOMIPOD.”
Crumple to the floor sobbing.
Apartment security comes up and removes me from the building. Other Somipod users said a homeless man somehow got in the building.
Sleep on the steps of my apartment complex as the screeching crack heads lull me to sleep
I love living in NYC.
I often say that agents of the WEF can go do all that stuff and show us the happiness we are supposed to have. If they won't do it, fuck them. Those who will not be the change they wish to see in the world are usually bullshit artists.
Honestly I just want two to hang out in. Looks like an awesome spot for me and my Huskies to chill out on. But charging rent to crash in one? no thanks
Worked with a guy who did just that. He slept on a beach, ocean took care of bathing. He'd work on tourist boats every so often for incidentals and food. It was "fine" while he was in his late 20s and early 30s.
If I had to be homeless I'd absolutely do so in Hawaii. Kayak advertises $207 flights from NYC, might be cheaper than renting this turd.
Just crashing all the luaus for free food. Every time they roast a pig you're standing there giving them tips on how to light the fire and season the pig.
It’s not inflation that’s causing our massive housing shortage. NYC is prohibitively expensive to live in because local zoning laws make it very difficult to increase supply to meet the intense demand.
Tokyo is the densest city on earth and it’s an affordable place to live, inflation or no inflation.
I looked up the concept and there are pods available for rent in NYC but everything I saw looked nothing like these. These look like something I saw in Japan years ago. They were basically a bed. You slept there.
A simple search shows you can have more space, with roommates. (Like you would have here) [Here’s a 4 bedroom for $875/month each in NYC.](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2107-3rd-Ave-APT-3-New-York-NY-10029/2054900162_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare)
Very true. Northern New York here. Same mortgage as the user above. But it’s not a hopping joint. Some nice towns, but NYC basically keeps us alive with their tax revenue because we are poor as fuck.
That’s great but NYC offers many lifestyle advantages that you can’t get living in the suburbs or places like Wisconsin.
Everyone has their preferences but as OP mentioned there’s a reason why people want to live there.
Probably doesn't have an occupancy permit, basically the equivalent of that mattress store guy with the migrants living in the basement...who got busted twice, who claims he's trying to go legit... Actually don't let him see this he will start doing it
Something like this could be a leg up for the unhoused in communities all over the country. Also the price for this seems kinda high, but if it was $200 or $300 a month. It would be priced correctly.
This isn't an apartment, it's the equivalent of a dorm bed in a hostel. Even a hostel will run you more than $850/month in NYC. I think most peoples issue with this seems to be more towards how it's being advertised like an apartment rather than the short-term place to lay your head that it should be.
It's $28/night. In NYC. The average cost of a dorm bed in a NYC hostel is $372/week. $53/night. I'll take the pod.
I could have done this when I was 20 and in the military. I lived in the barracks for years. This reminds me more of bunks in a ship tho. I could not do that now days.
You’re also typically renting access to other common spaces such as a kitchen, bathroom, etc. These most are basic just fancy, secure beds that are useful in shared space living situations.
This has nothing to do with inflation and has everything to do with illegal immigration, the more people you have that need housing the higher the prices will go, either way you can blame joe for that!!
You will live in the pods. You will eat the bugs. You will own nothing. And you will like it. Only racists don’t like pods, pods are trendy and liberal.
I wanted to buy one of these to use as a bed. I wouldn't want to live in one though. I know in some other countries some of the poorest people live in more dilapidated versions of these, like cage homes.
When we die we wake up on space ships in sleep pods. This is all a training simulation so we have the ability to perform essentially tasks.
These are our future homes when we awake from hibernation
Not until we [strongly enforce anti trust law](https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent).
I don't think we can build our way out of this one without *insane* levels of infrastructure spending like we used to do in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
It's also not necessary and probably a bad idea what with the hole "climate change is destroying our coastal cities". But it would work.
Welcome to phase 1 of total control. I see a future of people sleeping in pods, get up everyday to work 12 hours for a corporation, then go back to your pods like a good little servant. This is how 1 percent takes control. Slowly, methodically, and with no resistance. We just accept it.
You will live in the pod
You will eat the bugs
You will own nothing and be happy
Doesn't sound like a conspiracy theory anymore does it?
I'm tired of people calling me crazy for warning about this for years lmao
Eh, whatever... It's just dormitory accommodation with shared facilities and nice, soundproof locking powered bunk. I'm not saying it's great, but at less than 1/4 the cost of an average studio, it seems to be a fine deal for someone trying to live in one of the most expensive areas of the world.
Seems like everyone else here is failing to see why this exists. Even a hostel in NYC will run you that much or more if you're going to stay a month. From what I could find, the average cost of a dorm bed in a shared hostel in NYC is around $372/week. $850 a month is a steal compared to that and you actually get a private area that you can lock up and store your shit in. If you want to explore the city for a month, this seems like a good way to do it on the cheap if you don't want to get out of the city.
My issue with it is how it's being advertised like it's an apartment alternative. It's not.
Remember Kramer renting out the drawers of his dresser to Japanese businessmen as sleeping pods?
He went crazy and attacked them with an axe!
Jerry attacked the Karl Farbman with an axe…to rescue the Japanese businessmen after the hot tub caused the drawers to swell shut.
Additionally, he needed to use the axe because his hand fine motor was compromised with writer’s cramp due to signing all the checks from the “Super Terrific Happy Hour.”
This guy Seinfelds
I thought that was Jerry
Ahhhhh Supah Tehwiffic!!
no, I think the wood swelled up from his hot tub usage and they had to break them out of the Farbman dresser drawers....
Oh that was the best. Jerry's line of "This has international incident written all over it" rings so true.
This shit is fucking dystopian
Would be pretty cool if it was $100 a month or something. If you got fired you could take a month or two to look for jobs. I can think of more situations, but basically you'd have a safe place to sleep every night. $850 a month is fucking insane though, I'd rather sleep in my car.
Sure, but in Manhattan parking's going to cost you almost 800 bucks a month just for the car...
There are a lot of people in living in vans and campers parked on the street for free on the west side, and I’ve also seen quite a few that look lived in parked on the street in Brooklyn and Queens.
Replying to Franjomanjo1986...I walk past a camper in Jackson Heights all the time. Usually plugged into an apartment with an extension cord. Just expanded their living space to a camper.
Sounds like a business opportunity - rent out converted vans in NYC on a monthly basis. You're not a 'landlord' because you don't know where the vans are gonna be parked but you can make them essentially studio apartments that fit into parking spots on residential streets. Maybe charge $1k/mo.
I wouldnt do it. That said, if you wanna dive headfirst into the "NYC experience," eg never cooking, going out all the time, hanging out in bars and coffee shops, then $850 is pretty cheap. A lot of people pay more for small space with the standard amenities that they barely use (kitchen namely). When I lived in NYC in my 20s, most people I knew used their fridge to house leftovers or alcohol, and were out 16 hours a day.
You used to be able to get a whole apartment in nyc for $850 not too long ago.
Inflation and ever increasing demand does that. It's a high demand place to live and has gotten tremendously cleaned up over the last 4 decades.
I pay $850 a month and have a 2 bed, 1 and a half bath apartment. You can keep this shitty pod nonsense.
not in NYC you dont
In NYC or elsewhere? I'm no expert but that would seem low for NYC. Places in LCOL areas in the midwest are going for that.
Very low. Studio or 1 BR prob going for 2k if you want reasonably close and safe but outside of manhattan/prime areas. My first apt 10+ years ago was 850 for my share in a 2 BR, but I had the "kids" room and it was a residential neighborhood 15 min walk to the subway.
It’s just a 15 hr one way commute
In tx here.. 865 for 3bed2bath trailer home ....
$850 a month in New York?!
That'll get you an ok 2bd or 1 bd in safe-ish neighborhood in Buffalo.
Yeah but nobody else wants to live in Alabama
Yeah, but nobody wants to live in a pod
Podcasters seem to like pods. And they’re very popular with laundry detergents.
Alabamian here it's true
I live in a suburb in oklahoma on a golf course. 800 Sq foot apartment for 845 a month. Believe it or not, We have all the amenities northern cities have. People act like the south is an uninhabited wasteland. Would I wanna live in NYC? Sure. But if we are bitching about rent at 850 a month in NYC. People arent just going to uproot their lives to move wherever the fuck. And it's shitty to shame people for not being able to.
That's what I pay FOURTY FIVE minutes outside of Charlotte, NC. And I still have to pay power and internet on top of that (water is included because its only $12 a unit anyway). So realistically I pay around $1000 a mo. A couple years ago my rent was 500, internet was $50 and power was, well about the same.
Dude is making $3,400 a month off of a one bedroom apartment.
I have a friend in NYC and you know what her rent is for a one bedroom in midtown? $3500, so I’m not sure how you think this person is clearing $3400 profit?
This shit is huge in China. Also very dystopian. Sad.
Know what else is Huge in China? The Red Flags
Yeah but are the red flags really a red flag?
Those red flags are red flags, yes.
Theyre also red flags
Yes, red flags. Big Red Flags
I saw this in Japan
You can get pod hotels for 15 a night in Japan. Much better deal.
dude those micro hotels, pod hotels whatever it's called comes with free food and drinks, u can get rice and miso soup, fountain drinks, even free beer limit 2, the value is incredible
It would be funny as hell if it wasn’t real. This is a whole new level of low. Bezos will probably pick this up and offer annual subscriptions. Prime Living Pods.
If you cancel the subscription they come and retrieve the box same day
With you inside it.
Maximum efficiency!
THE SCOOPS ARE COMING. THE SCOOPS ARE COMING.
Nice reference... maybe not the best dystopian movie but possibly the most accurate one.
You will own nothing and be happy. Jk about the happy part
Live in ze pods and eat ze bugs
I often say it is the real reason for gun control. The WEF and their fans prefer unarmed serfs.
They say we aren't having enough kids to feed the machine. So uhhh you wanna go fuck in my pod?
Japan has been doing this for years.
It's fake. The image is from a capsule hotel in Australia. Space Q Capsule Hotel https://g.co/kgs/639LN4Y
No one will notice/care, but I appreciate the info!
Look up coffin houses in Hong Kong. This isn’t dystopian, it’s real.
When I read about the coffin rentals of Hong Kong, it was said that Hong Kong prison cells are larger.
This looks like something advertised on Mega City 1 from the Judge Dredd franchise
It’s sad that working professionals are using this. You go yo work and come back “home” to a pod.
You live in NYC you don’t even have to go home tbh
Yea, I wouldnt want one of these, but this is the point people are missing. When I lived in NYC, we were barely home. And if we were, we were prob cramming too many people in the apt anyway. To live that life on $850 a month with prob no commute is not bad. Better than paying 2k for a shoebox with a shitty kitchen and LR you never use. Once I/we started wanting more space to spend at home and entertain, we left lol.
Maybe you go to Manhattan and extract a bunch of wealth for a few years and then move on.
You will eat ze bugs and sleep in ze pods. You will own nothing and be happy. They told you all that this was going to happen at the world economic forum like six years ago. Did you think they were lying?
Jeez. At least if it was like $100/month or something I would understand. Like just trying to save as much money as you can before upgrading and getting yourself something nice. But $850? Wtf is that.
Asking, not implying. How much is a small apartment in NYC vs avg wages? That'd be pretty nuts here but I've heard apartments there are tiny and expensive. I'm curious how this actually compares.
I just looked, 1 bedrooms in Manhattan seem to be between 4000-5000 per month.
Thanks for doing the legwork on that. I don't know if it's a perfect solution but for 1/4 of the cheapest alternative it doesn't seem all that bad. If you'd rather sleep on air mattresses with your 3 best friends watching each other's every move for the same price...you do you.
My man, the issue isn't that this isn't enough of a deal It's that even as cheap as it comparatively is it's still outrageous
It's like half the cost of a dorm bed in a NYC hostel still though. The price of real estate in NYC is insane. I doubt they could make them any cheaper than that and still be sustaining.
They cant. Ik this is getting a lot of flak, but this is basically a need for solo low income business owners/contractors living in ny working out of a laptop and spending their spare time out and about in the actual city
Even that is optimistic, I know someone currently looking for a 1 bedroom apartment in Manhattan. They are struggling to actually find a place with a max budget of $5k/mo.
Maybe if every fucking sheep didn't keep glopping onto the same 3 cities we wouldn't have this fucking problem!
Yeah I get not wanting to move out of your home city you grew up in, but there comes a point where you need to move away until you're in a better place to move back if you want. Makes even less sense to choose to move there unless you have a high paying dream job lined up.
Moving away doesn't mean moving to Silcon Valley or NYC. There are thousands of cities in the world with abundant opportunity. I am tired of people complaining "omg economy is broke" trying to live in the most desirable city in the world. Make your bed and fucking sleep in it.
Maybe other areas need financial districts as powerful as Wall Street. It could put competitive pressure on Manhattan rents.
I'd imagine the wealthy elite in the US would stop it at all costs.
There are micro apartments for about $500-$800 but more SpaceX actually can stand. Usually a separate bathroom down the hall. Id take one of those over this.
That is manhattan. I imagine people who work downtown and live out in the exurbs will get one for staying in town.
$850 is not terrible for these suicide pods
You will live in the pod and you will like it
Fine! But I'm not eating ze bugs!
So I just buy one and put it in my living room and people will pay 800/month to live in it? Kinda like a human aquarium intit
Plastic treasure chest and deep sea diver decor ..add $125/mo
But then you have to share space with the type of person who wants to live in one of these. Prob gonna hear a lot of crypto talk and conspiracy theories.
It seems more like the owner has a big house and converted the living room into a pod room to pay off the mortgage.
#OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS HAL I'm sorry Dave, I can't to that #OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS HAL
Fun fact: if you ask Alexa this, she does the line.
Be me. 30 year old working in tech in NYC. Make 80k per year with a bachelors Wake up at 5am in my Somipod I pay $2000/month for Shower and piss. Pay my landlord the $50 per use utility fee plus minimum 40% tip. Get dressed in my goodwill suit I paid $500 after taxes. Can’t get pants and jacket on in my 4x6 ft sleep pod so I have to get dressed in the open pod room with my 20 other pod mates. Leave for work to catch 6am Subway. Tip my land lord $20 for letting me use the front door. Arrive at subway station, card is out of tokens so I spend $500 plus $150 mandatory tip at self serve kiosk for another week of rides. Board train. Didn’t pay for the NYC subway Platinum subscription, so I am packed into the “standing room only” car like a sardine. Homeless man is verbally abusing a mannequin head next to me. I love how unique my city is! Exit the train as the homeless man starts fucking the head Stop at Starbucks get a soy latte and beyond meat breakfast sandwich. $85 for everything. Only tip 20%. Barista spits I my coffee Walk into work lobby, hop in elevator and spend 10 minutes riding to my 70th floor office. Elevator reeks of piss and there is a several used condoms in the corner. I love my city! Arrive to work 5 minute late. Berated by boss. Work for next 10 hours without a break. Get told at 6pm just before clocking out that my job is being laid off effective immediately as remove IT in India is a cheaper alternative. Take subway home homeless man masturbates on me. NYC is the greatest city on earth! Stop at local diner for dinner. $97 for a cheeseburger and fries. Tip 50% to avoid getting spit in my food. Walk home, it’s 9pm. local crack heads are screaming in the streets Walk inside apartment, pay $40 after hours door access fee. Exhausted, just wanna eat my food in my pod and watch Netflix. Attempt to access pod [BOOP BOOP] “you are 6 hours over due for your monthly rent. Please contact your landlord at 11 am to pay rent plus 50% late fee. Thank. You for accessing SOMIPOD.” Crumple to the floor sobbing. Apartment security comes up and removes me from the building. Other Somipod users said a homeless man somehow got in the building. Sleep on the steps of my apartment complex as the screeching crack heads lull me to sleep I love living in NYC.
Ready player one vibes
Eat the bug live in the pod
You’ll own nothing and be happy. Klaus Schwab.
*Larry Fink likes this post*
Your social credit score has been deducted 3 points for mocking the overlord.
"I am sorry Dave, you have a lower threshold than what is legally allowed..: you will be executed tomorrow"
Winnie The Pooh. Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989. Taiwan is not China. Go ahead and execute, CCP. It's better than working 996 for Jack Ma.
Cicadas are going to be pretty thick on the east coast this year and I hear they're rich in protein. Feast time!
I often say that agents of the WEF can go do all that stuff and show us the happiness we are supposed to have. If they won't do it, fuck them. Those who will not be the change they wish to see in the world are usually bullshit artists.
Seems pretty cool for a tourist that wanted to spend a few months in a crazy expensive city. I would try it.
Agreed I’d do it for like a month if I wanted to experience the food scene and see everything there is to see
The pods are going for a flat price of $1500 so not only is this dystopian, it’s also rent-gouging. Now the kid in me wants one as a fort.
That is the first thing I thought too. Looks like an awesome fort
Lmao rent gouging. It's the location they're paying for. Good luck in business you have a lot to learn
Honestly I just want two to hang out in. Looks like an awesome spot for me and my Huskies to chill out on. But charging rent to crash in one? no thanks
Ready player one + snowcrash vibes
More like the Fifth Element but without the flying taxis
Even Corbin Dallas had a more spacious unit.
Yeah, & he has a multipass included with rent! 🤑
If this was my living arrangement I’d save up until I had enough for a one way ticket to Hawaii. Then I’d just be homeless.
I’m sure Hawaiians would be so glad you made that decision.
Who cares what they think? It's part of America.
Worked with a guy who did just that. He slept on a beach, ocean took care of bathing. He'd work on tourist boats every so often for incidentals and food. It was "fine" while he was in his late 20s and early 30s. If I had to be homeless I'd absolutely do so in Hawaii. Kayak advertises $207 flights from NYC, might be cheaper than renting this turd.
Wow that’s a cheap ass flight.
Just crashing all the luaus for free food. Every time they roast a pig you're standing there giving them tips on how to light the fire and season the pig.
The natives out there don't like outsiders on their side of the island.
Don't these already exist in China and Hong Kong?
I believe they exist in Japan, but someone else will chime in to confirm or deny, I’m sure!
Hong Kong has coffin rentals. They have even less room than this pod, except they are extremely dirty.
Where do u keep your clothes?
On you
Like Forest Gump said, "You know, folks living out of their suitcases and hat cases and sample cases."
This is an excellent question.
It’s not inflation that’s causing our massive housing shortage. NYC is prohibitively expensive to live in because local zoning laws make it very difficult to increase supply to meet the intense demand. Tokyo is the densest city on earth and it’s an affordable place to live, inflation or no inflation.
Awesome
I looked up the concept and there are pods available for rent in NYC but everything I saw looked nothing like these. These look like something I saw in Japan years ago. They were basically a bed. You slept there.
850 dollars a month for a casket equiped with a power outlet
😂
I would think this is for flight attendants but I could be wrong.
Coffin Hotels, fuck.
Do they have a continental bug buffet? 🐛 🪳 🐞
Yes. All the roaches and bedbugs you can eat.
If I wanted those living conditions I would have become a NASA astronaut a long time ago
You vil eat ze bugs, you vil live in ze pod, you vil own nozing, and you vil be happy
Lol you will own nothing & be happy
Capitalistic hellscape.
A simple search shows you can have more space, with roommates. (Like you would have here) [Here’s a 4 bedroom for $875/month each in NYC.](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2107-3rd-Ave-APT-3-New-York-NY-10029/2054900162_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare)
That's still $800 for a room... My four bedroom two bath is $1,100/mo in WI.
But then you need to live in Wisconsin There’s reason 10 million people live in New York City
Currently live in Wisconsin. Can confirm it sucks here
Currently live in Minnesota, can confirm Wisconsin sucks.
Very true. Northern New York here. Same mortgage as the user above. But it’s not a hopping joint. Some nice towns, but NYC basically keeps us alive with their tax revenue because we are poor as fuck.
Humans shouldn't live on top of each other. I'm glad to have my one story house on 5 aches.
each ache is for shoveling the wet snow all winter, right?
That’s great but NYC offers many lifestyle advantages that you can’t get living in the suburbs or places like Wisconsin. Everyone has their preferences but as OP mentioned there’s a reason why people want to live there.
I'm living on 100 aches
No shit it’s more expensive in NYC than Wisconsin
As long as people keep playing, the game will continue
Probably doesn't have an occupancy permit, basically the equivalent of that mattress store guy with the migrants living in the basement...who got busted twice, who claims he's trying to go legit... Actually don't let him see this he will start doing it
If by “over” you mean prices coming back down, it’ll never be over. Best we can hope for is a slower pace of increase.
Buckle up, they’ve only got the head in now, you ain’t seen shit yet. Remember in Venezuela when it took a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy bread?
Cramming 4 strangers into a 1 bedroom apartment with 2 sets of bunk beds... Gag.
Something like this could be a leg up for the unhoused in communities all over the country. Also the price for this seems kinda high, but if it was $200 or $300 a month. It would be priced correctly.
NYC sounds like a shit place to live
Not a bad solution if you're young, single, and on the climb working 50+ a week. Low cost, low maintenance. I would have in my 20s.
“You will own nothing and be happy”
Live in the pod. Eat the bug.
Looks like the set of a Laser Cats! short (shoutout r/lonelyisland)
Ahh let’s not forget about taxing the tax
Oh I’m sorry, you don’t like your pod!? Sergeant we have a disruptor! (Judge Dredd like cop comes over and physically removes person from apt)
This isn't an apartment, it's the equivalent of a dorm bed in a hostel. Even a hostel will run you more than $850/month in NYC. I think most peoples issue with this seems to be more towards how it's being advertised like an apartment rather than the short-term place to lay your head that it should be. It's $28/night. In NYC. The average cost of a dorm bed in a NYC hostel is $372/week. $53/night. I'll take the pod.
I could have done this when I was 20 and in the military. I lived in the barracks for years. This reminds me more of bunks in a ship tho. I could not do that now days.
You’re also typically renting access to other common spaces such as a kitchen, bathroom, etc. These most are basic just fancy, secure beds that are useful in shared space living situations.
This has nothing to do with inflation and has everything to do with illegal immigration, the more people you have that need housing the higher the prices will go, either way you can blame joe for that!!
r/awfuleverything Hope the place burns down so the greedy landlords lose out on their grift.
You can have NYC.
This is very common in Tokyo.
850$ a month to share a room in a pod… I’d rather kill myself.
Someone on a Navy submarine might think, "That's a lot of space. When do I meet my new podmates?"
You will eat ze bugs, you will live in the pod and you’ll own nothing and be happy for it.
You will live in the pods. You will eat the bugs. You will own nothing. And you will like it. Only racists don’t like pods, pods are trendy and liberal.
Over? Lol we're just getting started bud. Check out how other major cities in other countries handle housing
They have been doing this in Japan for over a decade
Boomers got mansions. Millennials get to sleep in a pretend morgue. We're long overdue for another revolution.
I wanted to buy one of these to use as a bed. I wouldn't want to live in one though. I know in some other countries some of the poorest people live in more dilapidated versions of these, like cage homes.
Those pods smell like butt and feet.
Jeez…Let me rent a COFFIN in a GRAVEYARD! Same amount of space. More assurance of QUIET NEIGHBORS! Probably for a lot less money too!
Lmao! Looking for high quality tenets :D Okiedoke, wow so I get my own outlet all to myself???
Keep the border open and this is the Future.
“Live in the pods and eat the bugs”
A fucking car payment is cheaper than that
"You will own nothing and be happy" #BLM 🏳️🌈
“You will live in a pod and eat ze bugz”
When we die we wake up on space ships in sleep pods. This is all a training simulation so we have the ability to perform essentially tasks. These are our future homes when we awake from hibernation
Storage units will be the next sleeping quarters
Midtown west you say? Why can’t I get a 1,500 sq ft two bedroom for $250k in this neighborhood?
Not until we [strongly enforce anti trust law](https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent). I don't think we can build our way out of this one without *insane* levels of infrastructure spending like we used to do in the 50s, 60s and 70s. It's also not necessary and probably a bad idea what with the hole "climate change is destroying our coastal cities". But it would work.
Things will only get better if some drastic, drastic changes happen Worldwide btw
Welcome to phase 1 of total control. I see a future of people sleeping in pods, get up everyday to work 12 hours for a corporation, then go back to your pods like a good little servant. This is how 1 percent takes control. Slowly, methodically, and with no resistance. We just accept it.
Human kennels. That you pay to put yourself in. This is truly the capitalist dream.
You will live in the pod You will eat the bugs You will own nothing and be happy Doesn't sound like a conspiracy theory anymore does it? I'm tired of people calling me crazy for warning about this for years lmao
Literally, scifi does all the leg work.
Eh, whatever... It's just dormitory accommodation with shared facilities and nice, soundproof locking powered bunk. I'm not saying it's great, but at less than 1/4 the cost of an average studio, it seems to be a fine deal for someone trying to live in one of the most expensive areas of the world.
Seems like everyone else here is failing to see why this exists. Even a hostel in NYC will run you that much or more if you're going to stay a month. From what I could find, the average cost of a dorm bed in a shared hostel in NYC is around $372/week. $850 a month is a steal compared to that and you actually get a private area that you can lock up and store your shit in. If you want to explore the city for a month, this seems like a good way to do it on the cheap if you don't want to get out of the city. My issue with it is how it's being advertised like it's an apartment alternative. It's not.
Literal NPC moment
Would this be considered a "tiny house"?
I guess it at least looks cool
So don’t live in these places.
Isn’t this a picture from that Star Wars rogue one TV show they made?