I’d trade off the massive amount of bathrooms for at most 1 bathroom with shower + maybe one toilet-only bathroom. Separate the kitchen out to a small room, make the common area larger, and add a balcony. The room sizes could probably also be varied slightly - not all rooms need a double-bed. Singles/bunk beds can be used to great effect.
It’s fully possible to share bathrooms with roommates, just as possible as sharing kitchens.
The alternative would be to just make a small kitchen and split these off as single units instead, this is just poor utilization of the space.
Blackout curtains are mandatory equipment for any Swedish bedroom, in my opinion. There’s no way to get enough sleep without them. Sleep masks also help if you’re particularly sensitive to light.
AC is generally speaking not required, as nights are cool and letting in air can provide adequate cooling for all but the hottest days of the year. This is of course a problem for people like me who are allergic to grass pollen, which is active during summer, but I’ve been able to get by mostly with a fan these days.
But don’t tell anyone because we don’t want more people moving here!
You need to build more housing so that more people can enjoy it, but more significantly so that the people already there can afford it.
I’ve been told it’s positively Mediterranean this year though, is that right?
Well, it begins with too warm for comfort here, and then it gets progressively worse.
Winter is quite nice when there is snow. We don’t get that in Stockholm, for the most part.
Depends on where you are. Miserable in hotter places I’m sure, but in Sweden it’s quite honestly glorious. Sun up from 03:30 to 22 in Stockholm, and it never quite gets dark. Does wonders for your mood.
Winter, however, is a cold, dark and wet mess. Truly depressive.
Spring and autumn are alright, but suffer from just a little bit too much rain.
Naturally, the climate crisis is making things slightly too warm for comfort now, and we’re going to have to retrofit all homes to withstand heat better before too long.
It’s not my favourite intervention to improve transit, but it does have some benefits, like reduced dwell times from faster boarding on buses.
The important thing is that it might get a candidate elected who can perform long-term improvements.
Tangentially related, but I really enjoy Hard Fork, which covers the tech industry generally.
Saturn Devouring His Beans
As far as I’m concerned, Hochul can go right ahead and fuck herself on account of her attempted ratfucking of the congestion pricing, and doubly so for arbitrarily lowering the price and dealing a massive blow to future infrastructure in the process.
I use Rectangle whenever I need to do some tiling go decent effect.
Is this a challenge? The answer is yes, multiple times over
I’d agree, but my understanding is that Elitewheels are quite trustworthy.
I’ll let you know if they break and I eat pavement
Scored myself a very nice set for under $400, for road use.
The key in this case is of course to buy from China
A decent road bike. Not top specced, and with none of the additional gear you’ll probably want, but you can definitely get started with €1k. I bought my current bike for approximately €700 and have upgraded + bought additional gear for probably a bit over €1k, but that has gotten me some really great stuff and I basically want for nothing in the sport.
If the fire department is happy with one staircase, great.
Fire departments make for very poor authorities on these matters, unfortunately. See the issue of them mandating completely oversized roads, since they can’t imagine smaller fire engines that have precedent around the world.
It just doesn’t sound plausible that 6-15% premium for additional staircases is a root cause of the housing crisis, when developer profit opportunity is clearly the greater constraint.
That’s the thing though - there is no single root cause for the housing crisis. It’s just a bunch of small issues stacked on top of each other, and each has to be addressed individually.
It’s important for public projects to manage their costs as well, as it affects how much can be built using the limited public funds available. I think we can all agree that we need large amounts of public housing in constrained places like San Francisco, to alleviate the current situation.
It is in fact one of the major advantages of building public housing - you unlock the lower costs of building at scale, which reduces costs in several ways:
For a wildly successful example, look to Miljonprogrammet that took place in Sweden during the 60s and 70s. Following that project, a vast supply of housing was available for the population, with housing costs below 1% of income being common.
Fwiw, I believe they manufacture their stuff in China these days.