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[bassexpander]

My wife and I are living in school housing. It's an old 2 bedroom villa with one of those thin little after-thought kitchens with maybe one outlet on a far wall. The total size of the place is maybe 18 pyung, including two bedrooms and a small bathroom.

With all of our shit, I find we don't have much space. The largest room is taken up mostly by our queen bed. The smaller room is taken up by clothes on racks and this stupid pain-in-the-ass standing rack that gets in the way EVERYWHERE and pushed around the room because my wife insists that there isn't enough space to hang her longer clothes on. There are no built-in closets in this place.

How much room do you feel is required to for two people to live comfortably?

We'd move next year, but we are saving almost 1 million won per month by living here.

[Davew125]

my girlfriend and i are living together in a shoe box and have been for four moths now - 5 metres by 4 metres -....well actually 2 shoes boxes, as we have one each. We have a lot of stuff in our other place and we stay in the slightly bigger of the two. It is a little cramped but it is very doable as long as you do some separate things in the evening and give each other a little space.

[bassexpander]

Our front door only opens about 50%. It's metal, and the ground is marble. It's a severe enough problem that sanding off some metal isn't enough.

In the bedroom, you can't walk around it without bumping into the bed. With two people, the doors are always getting in the way in the mornings. I'm constantly bumping into clothing racks, my bed, the doors, etc.

Then I go to work and the school insists on shoving 60 chairs in a classroom meant for 35. I often have to throw a few out in the hall to have enough space to teach in. I can't walk between the aisles without bumping chairs, unless I walk sideways. I had to stop putting keys in my front pocket, because they sit in the pocket right at the level where the desks rub against them, cutting marks in my pants if I bump them.

Agh! Calgon, take me away!

[Atavistic]

I can't open my bedroom door without hitting the bed. There is nowhere to WALK in my bedroom. Welcome to Korea.

[nobbyken]

Suggestion: sell the bed, get a mattress or something you can fold away in the morning.

We lived in a similar villa last year, with a baby, I FEEL YOUR PAIN.

This year, my new school put us in a 24 pyeong place. Big main room, kitchen of to the side and 3 bedrooms. It actually feels bigger than 24, maybe 27?

The laundry area's at the front and back of the place give us all the space we need for dry clothes storage, as well as space for drying washing. Still loads of space for storage and things.

We're not as central as last year, but our lives are better overall.
I expect this years place would cost a fortune in Suwon(elem. last year), but Yongin(HS this year) is OK.

As a couple you can cope, but crazy with a baby.

[SuperHero]

with 24pyoung and one child we were a little cramped. Now with 32 pyoung and 2 kids we are okay, but a four bedroom place would be nice.

[Scotticus]

[Atavistic]