Peter Berkowitz is my unexampled best-loved guy . The 25 - twelvemonth - old illustrator recently move to San Francisco and alternatively of root for some landlord ’s cost - gouging , he found some other coolheaded kids who rent him establish a box in their aliveness way . Peter ’s rentis just $ 400 a month .
That sound good to me ! The average rent for a one bedroom flat in San Franciscois a arresting $ 3,670 a month , and a bedroom in a portion out flat will fix you backat least $ 1,500for a comely location on the peninsula . And if you have to battle it out with all of the other recent college graduate from Craigslist for that room , you ’re probably going to need to bribe somebody , too . I ’ve learn it ’s pretty standard to bring a gift like wine-colored or envelopes full of cash when you show up to check out a elbow room . Sometimes the resident physician roommate invite all of the prospective roomy for a demented party to see who they like . It ’s like fraternity spate for dire bastard .
But this box - in - the - living elbow room thought , now that ’s something I can get behind . You ’re favourable to have any blank at all to yourself in San Francisco ’s housing famine , but it ’s all-fired nigh impossible to obtain such a cozy little sleep seedcase like this . Peter progress the thing with his bare hands for only $ 1,300 and even admit a little window and some poove lights so that it feel less like coffin and more like a sorcerous outflow from the dystopia that is the city by the bay . It ’s eight feet by 3.5 feet ( a little longer and wider than a coffin ) . The real fringe benefit though is that it ’s 4.5 feet improbable ( much taller than a coffin ) . And appear , there ’s a cute petty shelf for his MacBook .
One time I lived in a closet in London for £ 250 a calendar month , some the same as what Peter ’s pay for his box . I was able to tolerate up straight in my wardrobe , but I was not able to stretch my sleeve out in both direction . It was no problem , though , because I was break away as snake pit and got to use the sustenance way from time - to - clock time . I even had a girl for a little while .
In all earnestness , it ’s derisory that Frisco living has get to this . It ’s bad for everyone who ’s not some overpaid Facebook employee , andit ’s regretful for America . The living accommodations crisis also is n’t entirely the tech company ’ error , although theycould be doing a lot more to fix it . Take a hint from Peter . He seems like a real get - up - and - go guy . Well , more like get - up - more or less - hunched - over - and - crawl - out - of - your - boxwood - and - into - a - inhabit - way variety of guy cable . I wish this guy .
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