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I wonder if the builders will glue all fixtures and fittings in place to encourage a full building upgrade in a few years when the chairs start looking shabby or the washrooms needs upgraded. :)

What do you do for fun? Are you active in the dating pool? How often do you socialise in situations that require spend? (Be that a trip to the cinema, or a coffeshop, or a bar or taking beer/wine to a BBQ.)

As an aside, why I know this type of lifestyle is not for me and why I find it so alien...

"-$200/year for clothes/toiletries"

...is blown in one quarterly trip to Aesop.

Every American will think it's California...

Start typing Uber A... into google and what do you get?

This is ire inducing, as is all the comments agreeing anecdoatly. As someone who has came through the other side I would <emphasis>strongly</emphasis> argue that the level of empathy I feel towards friends in a similar predicatment is limitless.

"A man falls down a hole..."

It speaks to the character of the person if they then think of themselves superior to a friend who is fighting a fight they have been through previously.

They were not faliures of business per se.

Friendster failed because users migrated, ditto Myspace, Bebo and whatever else. Even Diggs downfall could be partially attributed to the ready made life boat of Reddit.

If possible, please substantiate that?

A mid range Apple laptop costs as much as a mid range Burberry leather jacket whilst the laptop takes way more effort to constuct.

I think someone is doing it smarter than the other here...

Gentrification is a massive problem in Berlin... Mitte -> Prenzlauer Berg -> Kreuzberg -> Neukölln -> Where Next?

It's absolutely not as extreme as London because most people in Berlin rent rather than own, and other costs of living are comparitively far cheaper across the board. The problem is though many people have had your idea, one that I share, and we are "spoiling" it for the locals. (Or the people who were ahead of the curve) Go for a visit, the areas I mentioned, especially the last two, are packed with British, Australian and American twenty somethings looking for that cheaper/creative/hedonistic lifestyle.

Whatever the location, you can imagine the CCTV that will be around them when they appear in the wild.

Strange, my partners Three contract had a £5.00 per day charge in mainland Europe but with no data cap after that.

Extrapolote that thought; it's only now that those kids (who grew up with BBM) are in charge of their own financial destinty. They might be used to having BBM in their lives and if they can get it on a new "cool" phone then that will make it popular. (To an extent.)

They way they chose to compose that open letter meant I could not take it seriously at all. (And my partner is in employment law so I have an above casual interest in these kind of things in all industries.)

SAGE GOES IN EVERY FIELD

Ahhh, memories.

Some students.

Those provided for by family will see their parents/grandparents get screwed, and some of those parents may well be part of the software community...

The idea being subjected to random people in times when we are 'alone' but in close proximity to others, i.e. on transport, is horrifying. I think it's contextual based on what part of the world you are from, but my take is that if I am on this flight for 9 hours, I want to read my book or watch a movie in peace and not have to make fast friends with you just because the seat lottery has paired us up. I know some people love being friendly with others in such situations, but it's not for me.

In a different scenario, a bar or a coffee shop etc, I think it's more acceptable as you are out in public anyway and then idle chatter is always going to be part and parcel of spending time in such places and I am generally ok with it.