[asiachick]

This sounds pretty whiny given there are plenty of apartments much smaller that people live in just fine in places like Japan, Hong Kong and I'm sure more.

Here's 12000 apartments the same size or smaller within a 40 minute commute of Shibuya Tokyo

https://www.chintai.net/list/?cf=0&ct=0&m=0&m=1&m=2&m=3&jk=0...

People live in them just fine because their expectations are different. It's like most students don't complain when living in dorms. Yes it's not the same, but the point is the expectation is different so it's fine. Similarly, I lived in hotels for 1~3 months at a time several times, often one after another (no larger place in between). Not a problem because my expectations matched.