If you can’t quite afford a Hong Kong microscopic (nano) apartment by yourself then why not co-live? So suggest enthusiastic Hong Kong realtors. Social conventions such as courting and marriage are inconvenient social roadblocks that can drive two single people into homeless shelters. Roommate roulette is the new Hong Kong solution: dwell armpit to armpit with a similarly desperate soul you’ve never met before.
Hong Kong housing is crammed onto tiny islands. There are more people who want housing than can fit with space to spare. Elsewhere around the world, the ever-rising cost of land ownership is also squeezing more and more people into less and less space. If co-living is not part of your future, perhaps you buy and sell land as an ever-appreciating investment? An unchecked, unmodified, land-ownership market may well help ensure your children experience the world of nano apartment co-living.
What is nano co-living like? Many have had a temporary taste of nano apartment co-living while in college. Would you wish for your offspring to spend their entire lives in a student residence?
More on this story in the South China Morning Post: Hype aside, what’s the mental effect of a young workforce living in cramped co-living conditions?
