this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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A Boring Dystopia
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The part about the women having surgery and the guy getting laid off is pretty bad but the concept of downsizing doesn't seem dystopian to me. If anything its a good thing to move to a more dense living situation with shared amenities like parks and pools then living out in suburbia with a big house with a bunch of rooms and amenities that need to be maintained by you while they are rarely used.
Plenty of people live very happy lives in smaller situations. Studies have shown that satisfaction with your living situation is more closely related to your house size relative to your neighbors then the absolute house size. Ie if you have 1000 sqft but that's above average for the neighborhood then you'll be more satisfied then the person with a 2000 sqft house in a neighborhood of 3000 sqft houses.
I lived in a one bedroom apartment as a single mom of one. Perfectly fine, and I agree with what you are saying, but a one bedroom with three kids and both parents? Seems a bit much..
It bugs me that people seem to think that dense living has to mean smaller homes. If you build up double-digit stories, you can have massive condominiums and still be far more dense than even the half-baked two- or three-story apartment buildings in my part of the US. Plus, when you don't have a quarter acre to store your stuff, the extra space comes in handy pretty frequently.