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Author here. As we lived in that apartment I constantly reminded myself that compared to all families from around the world and across time, we had a luxurious life. Clean water, climate control, safety, food 3 times a day, etc.

We definitely had company over, often gatherings of 10-12 people and one time we had 5 overnight guests (that was a bit crazy but fun).

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Very helpful read! Even for someone who doesn't have a lack of space, all the lessons are still relevant and definitely made me think about my living spaces.

Also, in the sentence about the coffee table (seen two photos up), shouldn't that be "second photo from the top"? Unless I misunderstood and tried to find a coffee table in the photo with the surfboards/piano

Will check, thanks. I shuffled things some during editing and might have missed that.

Edit: it was in the picture with the surfboards. It is the blue trunk in the lower left. Coffee table/trunk/changing table

Thanks for replying! I see now I was looking at the coffee table in the old "bachelor setup"

and compared to what you could have had if you gave up on living in an absurdly expensive city?

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