These are rooms to sleep in. If you think these are that bad, try visiting a real slum. It's first world privilege to consider a small clean room in New York City a horrible place.
Any implementation of sharing living quarters with other people has too many problems. People nowadays don’t understand what it means to be clean. Back wen cleanliness was up to you and of great practical importance, people were aware of beg bugs, Scabies, fleas, dust mites and the such like. Bed bugs are disgusting and when you stay in a hotel of any kind you risk picking them up. Their eggs stick to you, your luggage, everything and you trail them everywhere you go, including your own house. I just don’t understand why people want to sleep in bug infested cum stained shit hole shared rooms. I sleep in my car instead and while it’s not as nice as a room, it’s a lot better than sharing.
I assume you think that's a bad thing? If I had someone planning where I was going to stay I would tell them, put me anywhere that has a quiet comfortable bed and a clean private comfortable toilet. Maybe there's more to this story?
> They were loud! Also not hugely comfortable either. We didn't really sleep at all
We tried Munich-Rome once and it was not really good experience, especially because windows were dirty, beds are small and not comfortable. Narrow space, poor sound isolation.
> The US has lots of room for lowering expectations and standards without moving to "shanty town" standards. For starters, we tend to expect a really large amount of space per person.
We tend to expect a bed for nearly every person too! Many people around the world share a single bed in a single room with no complaints.
My wife used to have meetings in New York, and for reasons that seemed adequate then we would stay at a hotel in the 50s, where the floor never seemed high enough to set away from dumpsters squealing on the street and compressors running on roofs. Once we moved to a higher floor, then thought we'd left something in the old room. The security guy who let me to look around said that as a born New Yorker he had had trouble sleeping in the quiet of an army base in the southwest.
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