I bake bread in my flat every day because it tastes better fresh.
You bake bread because it’s aesthetic
We are admittedly a little similar
Fuck this post. “romanticize living at a comfortable apartment in the city”
PEOPLE ALREADY DO!
the point is to romanticize it, there’s a very pervasive idea nowadays that living in an apartment is somehow suboptimal
I mean, being a perpetual renter and building 0 equity is suboptimal.
But more importantly, finding affordable housing in most cities is aspiration itself.
renting your whole life is fine, the idea of housing as an investment is insane and precisely the reason why it’s as unaffordable as it is.
finding affordable housing in cities here is reasonably easy, mostly just a matter of waiting enough to get priority, because we have renter’s rights and municipal housing companies whose operational goal is specifically to provide housing to the people. We need more of that and less investment housing.
Yeah - I wasn’t sure how to take this. It already is my downtown life. I think of it as “simple living,” but not cottagecore. I come here for the legit cozy cottage vibe that will always be an inspiration, but is somehow different.
