Kay Wilson packed up her life in a rush and moved to Los Angeles… solely to seek out that what she paid in Pennsylvania for a pleasant studio condo would solely get her a 2.9-square-meter field in California. Her new house is a capsule, impressed by the well-known motels in Japan. AFP experiences: 

Every room accommodates as much as six capsules, which Wilson describes as “cozy.” They include a single mattress, a bar for hanging garments, a couple of compartments for storing sneakers and different objects and an air vent.

By most requirements, the lodging remains to be not low-cost — $750 per thirty days plus taxes. That works out at round $800, which is barely greater than the 26-year-old was paying in Bethlehem, round 70 miles outdoors Philadelphia.

“I couldn’t afford a studio on my own. Under no circumstances,” she advised AFP. “It’s $1,300 or extra.”

Jeremiah Adler, founding father of UP(st)ART, mentioned every capsule prices roughly half the lease of a studio in Los Angeles — the US leisure capital, and one in every of its most costly cities.