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COMMENTS: Deluxe Apartment in the Sky
For a New York City apartment dweller, Chris Jansing's shocked tone in her NBC feature about minihouses--residents "seriously downsizing to homes under 1,000 square feet"--seemed a little jarring. In the Big Apple, an entire thousand square feet seems like movin' on up, as the theme song goes. Some of Jansing's downsizers choose small to be green or to pay less for energy or to shuck off material possessions or to avoid the mortgage mess. Yet even this Manhattanite was impressed by an extreme example Jansing discovered in Oregon, "a Lilliputian cottage of 84 square feet, about twelve by seven!"
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