‘Face mask as curtain’: attic room in China ridiculed over tiny ‘shooting hole’ window for US$140 a month
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Attic room in China with tiny ‘shooting hole’ window rented for US$140 a month
Video clips of a living space in China with a single window as small as “a shooting hole” have gone viral on mainland social media.
The eight-square-metre attic room with a miniscule window in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area triggered a heated online discussion after a property agent shared video of it on Douyin, the mainland version of TikTok, on July 28.
As the agent, surnamed Ding, shuts a custom-made glass aperture and refers to the hole – the size of his hand – as a proper “window”, he colourfully describes it as “the soul’s window”.
According to Ding, the attic room is in a two-storey property partitioned into six rooms and is being offered for rental at 1,000 yuan (US$140) a month.
According to property agency 5i5j, a 95-square-metre flat in the same residential compound, which is an hour away from the city centre by train, rents for 7,000 yuan a month.
Ding also shared images of another room in the same flat which also has a nano window, adding that one room had already been rented on July 31.