As apartments are getting harder to find ( and more expensive ) in major cities, many folks are turning to alternative housing - in very small spaces called "Micro Apartments" .
What do you think about living in an area that is smaller than many hotel rooms ?

Here is a basic floor plan of one:
Micro Apartment Floor Plan - 96 sq feet

Only if I could pay less than $50/month.

As apartments are getting harder to find ( and more expensive ) in major cities

I still don't understand why people want so badly to live in major cities, with their air pollution, expensive housing, bad traffic problems, higher crime rates, lack of open green spaces, etc.

The only real benefit seems to be being closer to your work, where you're expected to be at beck and call of management 24/7.

No thanks!

As apartments are getting harder to find ( and more expensive ) in major cities

I still don't understand why people want so badly to live in major cities, with their air pollution, expensive housing, bad traffic problems, higher crime rates, lack of open green spaces, etc.

The only real benefit seems to be being closer to your work, where you're expected to be at beck and call of management 24/7.

No thanks!

I like urban life, personally i'd go nuts if i lived in the wild, or even in a mid size city, 1+million people around me and i'm happy (and i work at home, so distance from work makes 0 diference)

I wouldn't want to live in such a small room. Usually there has to be some "clever/creative" solutions for that space, such as folding bed, or folding tables etc. Which looks exciting and trendy but gets annoying really fast, as you can't just jump into bed when you are tired. You have to be always pedant, always do the dishes, can't let the laundry to stack up. Everything always has to be tip-top or else things get unbearably messy and dirty very fast.

You can never up call friends.

I, for one, could forget about my current and engaging hobby because of lack of space.

An apartment that small is only really suitable as a trendy f.ck-nest to bring random girls/boys up for a night but not for permanent life.

I despite urban life, I despise neighbors, I despise proximity, and I really enjoy amplifiers of various types that produce very high sound levels. Micro apartments are a remarkable curiosity, but they're for idiots who think living in <X> city is worth sacrificing quality of life over.

Should be banned. This just leads to more overcrowding of the most overcrowded areas. There's plenty of space on the planet (for now).

Look up Tiny Homes. A space about that size, but usually with a sleeping loft/storage space over head. I'm not a fan of just how cramped most of them make the bathroom, but I honestly don't see a great need for an overly huge space that is all your own. Would I like a large photo studio all to myself, along with a half dozen guest rooms and private bowling alley? Sure. Do I need any of that? Probably not. I also really don't need most of the junk I own either. 90% of the stuff that has been shoved into my closets hasn't been touched other than to try and rearrange it better over the last five years.

Such spaces are also great for relatively 'short term' living, such as for students, highly mobile contractors, or people who are still new to a city/region. However to be really successful as a living space I think such structures need to pay even more attention than normal to sound management. Heavy double walling, double door setups, spaced ceilings, etc. When the tenant is in the space they should be able to nearly blast a sound system without the neighbour really noticing.

I don't live near a big city, in my part of Canada the 'cities' are slightly smaller than the 'village' my German friend's Grandmother lives in, and there are a few universities in the world who employ more staff than some of our cities have in total population, but even here I'm a fan of effective housing styles. I would love to see super dense housing become 'a thing' along transit lines extending out into green space and connecting main centres.

I'm even considering getting a group together to build essentially Hobbit Holes along similar lines, a little more personal space than the truly micro apartment styles, which then all tie back into 'community space' with larger dinning and lounging areas. Effectively a private club/bar for co-op residents.

I've also considered taking the concept one step further for urban areas, and have design for standardized 'pod' housing, which are basically tall shipping containers, and designed to be deployed on their own or added into standardized central blocks. Buy your first place for $50k or so, and it is yours. Pay a bit of rent/HOA fee for the lot or slot in the building for general utilities, but if you decide you rather live closer to your new job, then you rent a new slot in a building across town, have your pod pulled out and dropped on a truck, then stuck back in and reconnected to the utility hookup when they get it to your new spot.

Meet someone special who also happens to own a pod? Rent adjoining slots in a building and open the internal connection doors for added space.

Really tired of living in the city? Pull your pods out to the countryside and add a suitable roof kit for the summer before going taking them back.

I need access to a drum kit and a piano, so no for me, but I commend those that can live like this and are content doing so.

In such a tiny apartment, you are probably living really close to a lot of other people anyways, so it might be more comfortable to make one big group living space and kitchen, and then small bedrooms for each person.

My apartment is tiny (not sure how many sqft) and I think it kinda sucks. What I wouldn't do for an apartment at least 700sqft. I'm only here because my rent is less than $500 usd, and the average rent here in my city is $1600. Also considering my employment consists of bouncing around from one contract to another, it helps me when I have a large period of downtime and no income.

Shogun.