If I couldn't afford both an apartment and office i'd get something like this http://www.podtime.co.uk/
That's assuming I was doing IT work which required having a business address.
That's assuming I was doing IT work which required having a business address.
But more importantly, where do you put this thing? If you were living in NYC without an apartment, I can't imagine you could just plop this down in the middle of Central Park.