do you have heat and hot water in your apartment?

[WalterMitty]

unfortunately yes.

but hopefully the gas company will shut it off soon, so i can live like a true urban hipster! (ie brtd)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes. For free too, the only utilities I have to pay for are electricity, cable and internet.

[WalterMitty]

Yes. For free too, the only utilities I have to pay for are electricity, cable and internet.

nothing is 'free' zach.

the price of the gas is included in your rent.  im sure your landlord isnt paying for it out of his/her own pocket

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

True, but it's still only $550/month, which with that included is a great deal. I should probably be thankful for the trashy neighborhoods a few blocks to the south and the west, they probably lower the property value here.

[Хahar 🤔]

Yes. For free too, the only utilities I have to pay for are electricity, cable and internet.

Free? Good deal. At least we get free Internet (my mom's company pays for it).

[Hatman 🍁]

I don't pay for any utilities (water, heat, electricity are included) and I have no phone line or internet yet. I also sort of have cable. (I have nearly unlimited access to a TV, though it's not in my apartment)

[MODU]

I don't live in an apartment.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Does anyone these days live in a house without heat or hot water?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Yes. For free too, the only utilities I have to pay for are electricity, cable and internet.

nothing is 'free' zach.

the price of the gas is included in your rent.  im sure your landlord isnt paying for it out of his/her own pocket

He probably has electric heat and hot water and doesn't know it and thinks he's getting it for free. 

[minionofmidas]

Yeah. But I don't have an outhouse and a pea patch, so you can't call it "fully equipped".

[DownWithTheLeft]

Walter's originial post to start the thread was easily one of the funniest things I've ever read on this forum

[Ban my account ffs!]

Does anyone these days live in a house without heat or hot water?

No.  Even most of the South has heat and hot water now days...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Does anyone these days live in a house without heat or hot water?

House I spent much of my childhood in (and where my parents still live) didn't (and doesn't) have central heating. In remoter rural areas (and in the oldest inner city housing) that sort of thing is still relatively common, even in industrial countries.

[Torie]

My mother was cold blooded, and when she came back from England in the 1950's and 1960's, all she could talk about was the lack of central heating.

[opebo]

I voted 'yes', before rememebering that I don't in fact have heat.  Virtually no one does here, as the coldest it ever gets is about 50 on the coldest winter nights upcountry.  Of course in Bangkok and points south it never even gets below maybe 60-65.  I think a very few people have tiny space heaters up here.

So take my answer to mean I have air-conditioning and hot water in my apartment - that's why it is about $90/month.  The fan rooms with cold water are around $50-60/month! 

[NDN]

No, I didn't. Thankfully I moved out, the new housing on campus should be better.

[riceowl]

yeah, but i've never used the former.  and yay for leaving ghetto apt in a week!  we only pay for electricity, net, and cable.  rent+other things = 400 for me.

[Hash]

Yes (normal). My apartment block isn't a rundown hole like the junkyard on the other side of the street.