So, for jerb reasons, I'm looking for remote housing. I worked in Silicon Valley, graduated from UC Santa Cruz, so I'm familiar with the long history of "geek houses" there: one person who inherited money or made it through their first IPO, or had Cisco stock at the right time buys a house with more rooms than they need. They rent out the remaining rooms to other like-minded people, so they have a group of similarly-interested peeps sharing the bills. It works great, but it's hard to get the smell of geek out of the woodwork if the owner ever decides to sell.
I am looking for a geek house in Tokyo, and Japan has half-assedly imported the term to rooms with wifi or something, and mainly applying it to AirBnB listings. This is more offensive to me than mayo/squid/corn pizza.
There is at least ONE actual Geek House I've found, and it looks like there is a good amount of shared housing available, though I was hoping it'd be similarly minded geeks with video games and movies, rather than drunken NZlanders on working holiday, or Disney Resort staff on furlough.
The main listings I bumped into, possibly due to their site being overly SEO'd, are for places where THERE ARE LITERALLY THREE LOFT BEDS in a single, Japanese-sized bedroom, and they want $700/month plus utils for this. What in the ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON?
:oldmanyellsatclouds.gif sure, I know, but this is fuckballs ridic.
