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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I rented a room in a luxury style middle class house for a while. When it rained the ceiling lights would short out in some rooms.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

The idea is to turn housing into a luxury

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Luxury in name only as a lot of comments point out, it's like putting "organic" on a bag of lettuce it somehow makes it 25-35% more expensive

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah most “luxury” apartments have paper thin walls and broken pipes because they were put up at hyper speed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

"Luxury" apartments have corners cut left and right. They also add nonsense like the "trash valet" that never comes.

I literally tried to explain this to someone in this thread but they had their head up their ass. The truly wealthy have apartments in NYC, sure, but comparing those kind of apartments to "luxury" apartments is like comparing a low end Lexus to a high end Aston Martin lmao.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 minutes ago

like comparing a low end Lexus to a high end Aston Martin lmao.

Except Lexus is made by Toyota so they’re actually good cars

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

yeah, they build a lot of those too, like those "luxury" skyscraper apartments in NYC that cost the earth and have low ceilings and cramped corridors. but i bet the actual elite of NYC lives in really nice old world apartments

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Apparently competition will not reduce the rent on luxury apartments down to the point where poor people can afford them. This is surprising to... idk

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

No fucking shit! All the farmland near me has been built upon by exorbitantly priced mega homes. The fucking infastructure isnt holding up and traffic has quadrupled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: