Anyone I know who has spent time in Dubai had their rent paid for them by their employers. Salaries for similar job are also higher if what my friends have told me is true.
Wow… and I thought Toronto’s Smallest House was small at 300 sq ft.
(the site doesn’t mention it, but the list price for the house was $180,000 CDN when it was put on the market a couple of years ago)
It looks like a clean, safe, bright, and cheerful version of an apartment that a friend of mine lived in in college. It was a regular garage converted into three very long, narrow apartments. To heat the place, you lit all the burners on the gas stove and cranked them to maximum.
Is it just me, or does the bowl of the toilet angle away from the tank so that it can actually be sat down on (otherwise it would run right into the sink)? I’ve never seen such.
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I think there are prison cells roomier than that.
Anyone read in the description that the “kitchen” is shared? It’s just a fridge and microwave. That’s crazy.
If they dropped the price by, say, 80%, I would live there.
But then, I remember that I needed at least a full size garage for taking apart my car.
At least it’s nice. $851 might get you a little more space in America, but in a lot of cities it would be in the GHET-TO. In all fairness $851 will get you something pretty decent in most suburbs but if we’re comparing urban to urban I really don’t think this is THAT bad. If I was single I’d rather live in the smaller, nicer place than the bigger dilapidated place. Honestly this even has a little bit of minimalist appeal. I’ve always kind of wanted to get rid of most of my possessions but I’d feel weird living in a big empty house.
Pic #7 seems to show an abundance of clothes dryers, unless I’m unfamiliar with Irish appliances.
But what a time saver that place would be. You could wash your pants, take a leak and cook an egg all at the same time while still sleeping in bed. That’s an efficency apartment for you.
Most of Dublin is generally fine but that area or near it would be as close as I would consider ‘GHET-TO’ in Dublin.
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Good god… $850 for that?!?!
Though it looks cozy. I could easily handle living there. However, I wouldn’t pay more than $150 a month for it. $850 is fucking insane. I could rent a nice house for that much money.
I don’t think those are in the apartment, if we can even call it that. I have a feeling that is the pic of the laundry area in the building.
In my last apartment I could actually take a shower and cook at the same time. For some weird reason the shower was right between the kitchen sink and the stove.
It did save me some time in the mornings though 
Not just that, but the sink is recognisable in that picture, which means the picture of the “kitchen” in the original is actually of the shared kitchen… which only has a 4" wide sink and a single drainer.
I really hope these fuckers don’t manage to rent the thing out.
Well, give them credit for honesty. There is no bait-n-switch going on here. Unless the photos are cleverly taken with special lenses to make the space appear larger than it really is :eek:
I own my own business so I was on my own for rent. I wrote a cheque for 60,000 AED ($16,500) for one year’s rent. Quite shocking actually. An article in Gulf News yesterday said that most people in Dubai and Sharjah are paying 40-50% of their income in rent.
And since the government no longer allows flat-sharing (people still do but they are getting kicked out slowly), it is very, very expensive indeed.
:eek:Why? 
That’s outrageous. What business is it of theirs what people’s living arrangements are?
Is Phoenix really that pricey? A few years ago, a friend and I rented a perfectly decent (although hardly luxurious) 2 bedroom apartment in Chicago for $850. It was pretty far to the north, but still well inside city limits.
You don’t need to explain about expensive housing to me, though. I grew up in San Francisco. I just thought Phoenix was pretty inexpensive.
I’ve a good friend who just moved to Dubai for business with his girlfriend and you’d be surprised what they are allowed to ask you on rental applications. Marital status, sexual orientation, religion, etc. Oh, and they can refuse you because of anything you put down. It was really hard for them, not being married, to find an apartment just based on that fact alone. They’ve been there six months and are only moving in this week. Plus they were picky about not being near the construction as much as possible, since it’s all done at night apparently. Dubai sounds like an odd place.
It is a Muslim country. By law, unrelated males and females may not live together under the same roof unless it is an apartment building with completely separated living spaces.
Lots of expats lived in shared villas where they have for example 10 bedrooms and the owner (or more typically the guy who rented the whole villa) sublets each room to a different expat. This is not being cracked down upon. The police will visit and if they find unrelated males and females living together, they can arrest and deport you if it gets that far.
Westerners are usually given a lots of leeway, but in the current climate it is getting a lot riskier.