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These are AMAZING! I wish they were available in the US.

Box fan rules.

When our AC unit died in the middle of a heat wave (NYC August), the box fan stuck in the window was enough to let us sleep just fine.

Not to say that if I had central AC I wouldn't have used it. But window units are ugly, inefficient, and noisy, so I felt somewhat relieved when our AC window unit died.

This is pretty amazing.

But, frankly, I wonder why would anybody bother putting this much energy and effort into creating a untenable situation? Two kids in such a small place? I predict movers within a year.

Yes, the apartment is well-edited, but it still feels claustrophobic. The bed is rammed into the bedroom and surrounded by the storage drawers, it's almost like sleeping in a tent. Perhaps the garden helps matters during the nice weather, but I would surely get cabin fever in winter.

Maybe because MSG is not something my family ever cooked with. Or not a kind of food you can find in traditional European cuisine (which heavily influences my cooking), but it never occurred to me to buy it or add it into the food I make.

Immature and passive-aggressive, good thing airline companies are onto this.

Proximity to a grocery store is unimportant to me.

Proximity to a good (which most of the time means small) grocery and farmers market is very important to me.

What good is it to be close to Safeway/Keyfood/Van's or most other huge brands if you cannot even find good (from grass-fed cows/organic) milk in there?

I live in a tiny NYC apartment and boy, do I hate the lack of storage space.

Kitchen is fine. Living room (especially b/c of all the books we own) plus our bikes is hell. Not to mention endless problems of storing necessary but not everyday things like travel suitcases, backpacking and camping gear, etc.

Purging works fine up to a certain point, but beyond that certain point, the living space just becomes too small.

Picnic for two - why not?

Picnic for 10 - no way.

I have a ReadyNas NV and I love it. It's very simple to use (and expand): back-ups are a breeze (which means I actually do them), though I found the bundled software to be too difficult to use.

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