Chinese Family Of Three Lives Inside Rented Hotel Bathroom

[Initech]

With space at a premium and skyrocketing rents, one family have found an unusual solution to the housing shortage in one of China's largest cities - by setting up home in a converted male toilet.

When Zeng Lingjun moved to Shenyang to find work, the enterprising 33-year-old decided that instead of his house-hunting mission becoming a busted flush, he would rent out the unused hotel bathroom.

Shoe repairer Mr Zeng moved into the 20 square metre male toilet in 2006 and when he married wife Wang Zhixia in 2010 she joined him, with their baby son Devi born a year later.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2402087/Far-busted-flush-Faced-spiralling-housing-costs-low-wages-determined-Chinese-worker-sets-family-home-converted-toilet-block.html

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Or as they call it in Manhattan

"A Duplex"

[Mopar151]

2. In sarcasam, truth.

My figures say 10 square meters = 215 sq. feet. A couple of lofts, if ceiling height permits, and we're talkin roomy here.

[MADem]

3. Those look like "bomb sights" to my eye...

Easier to convert than "thrones" but one would have to flush regularly to keep the stank down....