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by jjoonathan 939 days ago
Affordable housing where all I have to give up is a shitty view? Sign me up!
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You give up a shitty view and any chance of fire escape. Such a savings!
Buildings like this have sprinklers, automated firewalls, multiple exit routes, redundant alarm systems etc.

Lots of off campus student housing is still knob and tube wiring in shoddy timber construction.

Obviously (which makes me guess you’re not serious) it’s not about the view but the natural light.
Nothing beats natural light at its best, especially in CA, but gee, all sorts of people default into shitty depressing natural light situations (MA, I'm looking at you) that could be trounced by a mediocre artificial setup. If you listen to the tone of the rhetoric here you'd think Munger was killing babies, when in fact the light situation evidently doesn't even reach everybody's threshold for the simple action of buying a decent lamp. Shrug.