Would you like to live in a place called "The Orphanage?"

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

By good ghosts.

The ghosts there are nice.

They just recite nursery rhymes slowly as you try to get some sleep, isn't that cute?

whisky_galore wrote: »

The ghosts there are nice.

They just recite nursery rhymes slowly as you try to get some sleep, isn't that cute?

Sad and cute.

But true. I wouldn't be afraid of the ghosts there at all.

Unless its the people who ran it. They are bad ghosts.

SeanW wrote: »

Forget the name - what in the name of Sam Hill is "luxury co-living?" Because that sounds like an oxymoron.

Like the skinny fatso. Or the broke millionaire, or a sober drunk, a contradiction in terms.

Introvert hell. Most people just want to close their door at night and live whatever way they want without having to interract with many others while waiting for the cooker to be free. Who monitors the Fridge, and all that jazz.

But it suits some, however it is pricey for what you get.

Deleted User wrote: »

I'd live in "The Asbestos Parlour" if it were affordable.

Takes your breath away

Whoever decided to retain ‘the orphanage’ for a residential set of apartments is a total bonkers fûckwit.

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Does that 1200 include electricity, heating, broadband, bins, a weekly professional clean?

Not sure about the bins and electricity, I'll ask her. I know she has her own subscription to Virgin Media and that covers both broadband and TV.

For single, working adults, individual apartments are a great waste of resources. the kitchen's used for maybe an hour a day (less if they have a decent canteen at work) and the living area only a bit longer. One person pays the whole daily charge for utilities. And if they die or get sick, they might not be found for weeks or months. Co-living isn't for everyone, but it's good for some.

To clarify, it's a one-bedroom apartment with its own bathroom, kitchenette and living room which doubles as a study (sofa, dinner table and TV on one side, writing desk on the other).

It's not wasted on her, as she works from home as a writer for various publications and digital marketing companies (I can tell you from experience that trying to work in any creative field in a cramped space is nigh impossible, as, for most people, is trying to work creatively with company), and is a very social person so has regular social events for her friends and family in the apartment (everything from cards and movie nights to birthdays etc - something which would be extremely difficult to manage if the living room and eating areas are shared with four other individuals with their own social lives. For someone like her who spends her days working and most of her evenings hosting guests socially, this living arrangement would be hell on Earth.

That's not the main issue, as well - the real point here is that this was the standard one could expect for that kind of price just one year ago, and certainly two years ago. Most two-bedroom apartments with their own living space in the area are currently going for somewhere around the €1,600-€1,900 mark. The fact that that €1,200 rent (which last year and the year before would have easily paid for a one bedroom apartment with private living space and kitchen facilities) now involves jettisoning the private living room and kitchen aspect of one's life, represents an utterly insane level of price inflation in a very short space of time, and this is hideously bad for society.

That's something we need to talk about politically in my view - whether we can tolerate the societal harm which results from this kind of price inflation, and whether we should continue to accept "tough, that's the free market and that's just how it is" as an answer when we talk about it. In a democracy, all of these things should be regularly up for discussion.

If the building is locally known as The Orphanage anyways, I cannot see the problem

I agree that the name is the secondary issue here, I think the problem is that the whole co-living for previously apartment-worthy rental prices thing is regarded as a step entirely in the wrong direction by many people, and since the word "orphanage" conjures mental images of squalor and poverty, the fact that the people who are choosing to ask such an astronomical price for so little in return are being "tongue in cheek" about it is regarded as a massive "f*ck you" to society in general.