One picture shows how absurdly tiny apartments are in Hong Kong — and people are paying a premium for them

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• Hong Kong is the most expensive city in the world for housing.
• The dire housing situation has spawned tons of increasingly tiny apartments.
• Many bathrooms in tiny apartments have a combination shower-toilet, which is as strange as it sounds.

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I knew Hong Kong apartments were small. I didn't realize they were that small.

I had booked what I thought was a studio apartment in Mong Kok, a neighborhood on Kowloon island reputed to be the most densely populated place on earth.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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