[regulation_d]

in 2019 (i.e. before covid), I threw a party at my centrally located, but also quite small, 1 br apartment. Had some friends in from out of town and put them up at a hipster boutique hotel 3 blocks from my apt. They hung out at my place for as long as they wanted, stumbled back to the hotel when they were done, and retreated to privacy of their own hotel room. We all walked to breakfast the next day.

The way the math works out is that I would be able to pay for three nights per month in that hotel for the difference between a 1br and a 2br in my building.

I don't think everyone reading this article needs to shoehorn their own situation into the analysis, but for me it makes a ton of sense. I kind of want a 2br, but I really wouldn't use the space that often and I have excellent alternatives.

[asdff]

As someone living in a 1br, I'm not sure how you aren't constantly pining for the 2br like me. It would change so much. Right now my living room houses my hobbies, my job, my tv, my dining room, my gym, and my couch where I can fit 1 friend awkwardly sleeping with their legs sticking out the end. A second bedroom would become the office, the gym, the guest room, the music room, and would free up my living room for, well, living.

I dream of that day, but I don't expect to see it for another 4-5 years at least given the nature of the beast in this field in this city.