When the anti-private property rights folks really get a good rant going, they’ll tell you that we shouldn’t be sub-dividing suburban and rural property because it causes pollution and traffic.
They will tell you, straight to your face, without any hesitation, that people should move back into the city so that their professed belief in “High Density Neighborhoods” can flourish.
Well Citizen, take a look at your new digs
296 square feet — but it’s home
Park two of GMC’s biggest Sierra pickups next to each other. That’s a lot of truck, but a small condominium — at least by Seattle standards.
But a local developer is betting Seattle urbanites are primed to carve out their own two-truck chunks of Belltown. The moda condos, set to break ground in October, promise “New York-style living,” with units as small as 296 square feet that start at $149,950.
Yes, you read that right. Smaller than your standard two car garage.
I’ve rented studio apartments before, and they serve their purpose. But I wouldn’t say that I “lived” in them. It was where I slept and cooked meals and brought beatnik college girls back to, but other than the part about the girls, I didn’t enjoy much of it.
The “High Density Neighborhood” people truly believe that this is how people should spend their lives. They forget that children need room to play and that everyone needs a little privacy.
But I can guarantee you two things: 1. Most of the “High Density” crowd doesn’t live that lifestyle, and 2. These things will sell like hotcakes to the urban hipster fools.
Slightly less living space than aboard my modest 30 foot Tollycraft, which no one would mistake for a live-aboard craft.