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If it were between this option and being homeless--I'd live in the pod but get out as soon as I could. It's hard to believe a building with such a dense arrangement of people would meet fire code regulations. This is shameful for a Western country like Japan to allow people to live like this.

I wouldn't have thought this idea would look good--but it does in some of these examples. I especially the first shot.

I grew up in a part of rural Michigan (lower peninsula), which isn't nearly as beautiful as the area pictured by the author. There isn't much to miss, flat ugly land, pre-fab houses on treeless lots, and lots of narrow minded people with advanced weaponry stashed away in their homes. I got out of that hole as soon as I could and moved to NYC. It's a huge improvement, but if I could move to a more beautiful rural area that isn't populated by NRA types then I'd be tempted.

It's definitely an improvement, but personally I like to leave the "hotel" look to actual hotels. I prefer my living space to be a bit warmer and more personal.

Or you could just go to your local guy selling Christmas trees and just pick one you like. If every minor decision I made was turned into a process like this with a chart, I don't think I could get up in the morning.

It looks good. I'm not a fan of IKEA kitchen cabinets because the frames are made of particleboard, but I understand they have a generous warranty so maybe its not so bad.

It's all about context in this case. In the photo, the house adjacent are all painted in bright colors and look good together as a group. A single house painted bright blue among white or grey houses wouldn't look so great.

This really is a very well designed and pleasant space. You have excellent taste.

Passwords and PIN's in general have become insanely difficult to manage. The number of apps, websites and work functions that require them are through the roof and they are requiring increasingly complex and lengthy strings with each passing year. Almost everyone I know keeps a list of passwords in their cellphone or worse yet, written on a piece of paper. I understand that this is to combat identity theft, so I'm not against it -- but I don't how I'll manage when I'm forced to enter 10 eight digit passwords a day that contain random characters that need to be changed every 30 days.

That bedroom with the pirate ship is absolute genius and a kid would love it.