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The Future is a Parking Lot Behind Starbucks

I don't pay rent. I pay cubic feet.

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The U-Haul was cheaper than rent. Nine hundred bucks up front. No credit check. No landlord asking where my last three pay stubs were. Just the smell of cardboard and gasoline.

I did the math. One hundred and fifty square feet. Twelve feet long, six and a half wide, six and a half tall. Nine hundred bucks divided by one hundred and fifty. Six dollars per…

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