For a few years in the 1980s, when I was a graduate student at UCLA and had no stipend, I lived in a tenement near the La Brea Tar Pits and paid $105 a month for a studio apartment. It had no kitchen, only a hot plate and mini fridge on a counter beside a small sink. The bathroom had a scratched-up tub and a shower with a rusty head, which I would run on hot for two minutes to clear the roaches…
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