Anyone else live in really tight quarters?

Yes, I've been there before. We lived in a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, and the kitchen and living room was the same room, runned down filty apartment. There were 5 children including myself and 2 adults and rats, lots and lots of rats. The 5 childrenand the rats shared the one bedroom while our Mom and Step-dad and the rats shared the other. Our living room was also the kitchen. And if we were lucky, some days the leak from upstairs would stop dripping on our heads while we slept. And the days the rats stop eating our food was the day we didn't go hungry. Oh.. by the way.. this was in America.

Yes, My daughter and SIL have five children ages 3-11 and one due in April. Living in her FIL bachlor pad which is one bedroom and freaky kitchen and tiny I mean tiny eating area they barely fit around the stairway is narrow and steep and the bathroom down stairs. One bedroom and living room upstairs and then upper story you got to go outside and upstairs to a room seperate that is the office. The kids sleeping in the living room which is 12X14. They have almost go a second bedroom added on for the girls 4 of them and will build a bedroom on next summer for the boys over the new kitchen they plan on building. Meanwhile the girls sleep at my house frequently in one bedroom, 5 girls when my son who lives with us and is disabled his kids come for weekends, summers and holiday breaks we got 12 people sleeping here at times and right now daughter and SIL and all the kids here because they are snowed out of where they live except a trail 3/4 a mile to walk in. They have 6 feet of snow to shovel and the burm keeps falling back into the road and the plow broke so they could not plow so yes we got three bedroom with 5 adults, 7 kids and 5 cats living with us. In a 3 bedroom modular home and small eating cooking space. Living room is large though and we got two couches and two arm chairs in it a coffee table, end tables piano, Big screen t.v 3 bookshelves and a double bed in there and still room for the kids to play and oh yes the wood stove.

I know of a family which lived (now his children are living in different homes) during 1960's. He had only 150 sq. feet area of a tiny house and had 17 children. He was given a special award at his age of 85 by the erstwhile king of Mysore, when the King was passing through the village which is 20 kms from Bangalore. All his children are educated. In fact ke kept his home so small, the remaining places he had rented it out. Imagine, all children went to same school. There was hardly a year gap between issues. The couple lived till the age of 90 and 85 respectively. Needless to say he was highly respected in the entire village. Some of his children have become rich by joining the government companies and carrying out independent businesses.

Yes, i am in the same position. I have three children and myself living in a two bedroom duplex. it absolutely kills me to because my house looks cluttered all the time. to much stuff, not enough room. I'm about ready to loose my mind, not to mention that my husband will be home in June from being overseas. So, that's five people in this tiny little duplex where you can't hardly walk in the kitchen, much less anyone else being in there with you. hopefully we will be able to move to a bigger place before my husband gets home. God bless

i understand this situation. there are technicaly only 2 bedrooms,living room,dining area,bathroom and 2 other areas that can be used as you see fit. so we have myself,my fiancee, my 14 month old daughter,my brother,my uncle, and both my parents along with 2 cats. sometimes it feels like a mad house in here but you just have to go with the flow of things is how i look at things