Are these rooms for midgets?
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Anonymous
| The term midget is offensive and not PC. Please call them "little people". |
Anonymous
Your attempt to regulate the language of others is offensive. Please cease and desist. |
Anonymous
Lol, calm down, I just joking 
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Anonymous
Hell's bells. you never know around here. |
Anonymous
True! I do, however, apologize for making such a crappy joke.... |
Anonymous
| Op here.. I do love far and it is not built yet. I know it's not a scam. Here's the deal. I work for a development company. I have a discount on housing. I was offered a promotion and which means I would get housing here at a discount. So my boss is renovating a building and adding a couple more apartments one of which I will rent. I'm trying to figure out if its worth me uprooting and taking something my family will be unhappy in. So I won't move until the end of the year but need to give an answer now. I sort of feel like I'm getting screwed over by leaving my spacious apartment and moving into a smaller one while still being on the same lease. And I understand that DC is more expensive so I can't expect to get the same size apartment in Dc as I currently have but I would rather not acccept the position than be unhappy in my home |
Anonymous
| It just seems a little small for a family and I certainly wouldn't want to stay there fore the next 5 years. Are you locked into 5 years or can you move if you find a bigger place? |
Anonymous
| I would be very suspect over a room that was only 6 feet wide. The typical width of a bathroom is 5 feet so this room is only 1 foot wider than a bathtub. A bed is going to be a very tight squeeze. |
Anonymous
This. You bigger issue is--do you want to relocate. Yes, DC is expensive. Have you worked out cost of living differences vs. what your promotion will actually pay? Make a pros/con list of what you like where you live now and benefits to living in DC. OP, the firm you work for sounds a little screwy if they are developing dorm-room-esque apartments. You could probably find a next level up job at a different firm where you are currently living. |
Anonymous
| Not the OP, but thanks PP for the "Bob's Room Planner" recommendation. What a cool site! |
Anonymous
| Is a midget smaller than a dwarf |
Anonymous
| OP, the bigger concern might be having your boss as a landlord, if I read your post right. That seems a little...much. |
Anonymous
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It sounds like you work for an apartment or condo company, in which case, can't you look up similarly sized floor plans in other building they offer?
We lived in a two bedroom apartment that was 750 sqft with a 2 year old. It wasn't that bad and there were certainly people in the complex with older kids. We had NO storage though, so in that sense it felt very small: No room for bikes, so storage for Christmas stuff, no space to keep kid stuff in case we had a second child. The kitchen was also so tiny that only one person could cook in there at once and for an older child, you'd have a tough time letting your kid cook with you. We made extra room by not using the dining area as a dining room (no table and chairs in the house, just fed our son in a little high chair in the kitchen still), which also wouldn't work with an older child. |
Anonymous
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I lived in an 800sq foot condo with a child and it was fine. The layout/use of space makes a huge difference. The bedroom sizes are really odd though. I can't imagine a room being 13x6. That is just awkward. You would barely be able to walk around your bed.
Personally I would not take it. |