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We pretty much only eat Macdonald's on the floor of a new apartment, it's sort of a tradition. When my parents used to help us move, we'd get pizza to feed everyone.

the old ladies in my neighbourhood (I'm in Korea atm) get together in community shacks and use giant plastic tubs during kimchi-making times. I was here for the laying down of the winter kimchi, which seemed to take a week or two of wheelbarrows of kimchi and daikon like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7754503@N08/4108694940/
In my area they apparently add rather a lot of seafood to the kimchi, and I can't say I like it as much as non-local kimchi that doesn't have cabbage-fermented squid in it.

This is timely for me, as I'm battling some serious restrictions in my current place and am thinking of going the tent route to cover the hideous wallpaper (on the ceiling too!) that I can't remove, that is over concrete so I can't tack things over it. Does anyone have experience with this kind of installation? Would it encourage bugs to take up residence, having all the extra hidden space?

I've been teaching in Korea for almost two months now, and get school lunches every day. I would say one day out of three we have some variety of octopus or cuttlefish in our lunch. Usually this is in some sort of kimchi and tentacle soup, and I can't really get my tastebuds around it. I've had some interesting conversations with my coteachers about food and how limited a Western diet is - they find it hard to believe how many kinds of seafood and produce we just don't eat regularly.

My husband and I moved to Korea a month ago and our (free) apartment is about this size. Luckily the paring down happened before we got here, but it's going to be a challenge to make it comfortable. Our current plan is to have our bed on the far side of the room from the door, and use a wardrobe (there's no closet) and a bookcase to divide the space so we can have an eating/living section, too.
The wallpaper, on the other hand, is kind of... well, it's a problem. And the floors.
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I love having windows open even with a noisy street, pigeons nesting under every window, and terrible music. I had a bad experience last summer, though - someone climbed our fire escape to smoke pot, and all the smoke drifted into the apartment. They pissed through the screen and ruined all the cookbooks on the sill - in retrospect, it's better that than the other two windows available to them (the bed through one, and the couch and a computer through the other) but we broke lease and moved to a nice third floor place where no one but us can get at our windows.

My roommates and I make a point of having a big breakfast together on Sundays - usually pancakes and bacon and potatoes, though there have been breakfast wraps (with fresh tortillas!) and latkes, among other things.
In the New Year we've expanded it to include another four friends, who come over for a massive feed as a prelude to our weekly Dungeons and Dragons game.
Nerdy, but delicious.

My mother, an oatmeal enthusiast, knows a man who turns spurtles in his home shop from old orchard trees. They're pretty silly unitaskers to those of us who don't eat oatmeal every day, but it does get a lot of use at home!

I just moved out of a mixed-use building. It was actually the quietest building I've ever lived in - we were above a yarn store and a high-end men's clothing store - and I loved being in the center of downtown, just ten second's stumble to the major bus hub.
(Unfortunately, our fire escape was an easily-accessed stairway at the end of a dark alley, close to bars, and people would frequently scale it while roaring drunk and wake us up in the middle of the night. It wasn't quite enough to get us to leave until someone actually peed through our kitchen window and ruined our entire cookbook collection.)
I'd happily live above stores again, though I don't know that I would want to live above a bar or restaurant - just living a block away from the major bars in town proved troublesome.