Коммуналка по-американски / Communal apartments, American-style

[strannik01]

So, a few weeks ago, I randomly started seeing Facebook advertisements for something called Common.

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And I couldn't help but think that these are basically Kommunalski - the Soviet-style communal apartmentsThey used to be a fairly common form of housing in the first half of the 20th century. The idea was basically to relieve

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[benicek]

There are some of these in London too.

[strannik01]

Posh communal apartment style apartments or just plain communal apartments?

[benicek]

Posh new ones.

[strannik01]

Ugh!