These Delusional Gen Y "Entrepreneurs" Want You To Live In A Share House For $1080 A Month

The 16-person share-house which focuses on "entrepreneurship and self-promotion".

Spending some time in a share-house or three has long been a rite of passage, and while many an experience has been tainted over stolen packets of mi goreng, or dishes left one too many weeks in the sink, there appears to finally be a solution to all those problems. Why bother with a share-house when you can be a part of "an experimental co-living space full of carefully selected residents who want to change the world for the better and create a new global paradigm"? Right?

No, this is not a bit from HBO's Silicon Valley, it's an actual idea from a duo of young Melbournites, Alex Jeffery, 21, and Simon Harman, 19, which they're calling Base. In essence, it's just a 16-person share-house which focuses on "entrepreneurship and self-promotion", and requires an application fee of $15. Naturally, the house also doesn't actually even exist yet. In fact, one of the guys is still living with his parents. But still, that entrepreneurial co-living though!

Each "curated" invidual will pay $250 a week rent for a private, soundproofed, lockable, minimum 13 square meter bedroom, within a building that contains a public space, which can be rented out as a co-working area or a place where residents can host workshops and “experiences”.

The official website says "becoming a resident in this experimental space will not provide stability, but a learning and growing opportunity". Essentially, people are being sold on the fact that they're part of some kind of weird social experiment, which is possibly just an IRL expansion pack for The Sims. While it might all sound like fun and games, Base refuse to endorse excessive drinking, and they have stated that partying or "expressing", as they've referred to it, will be self-organised as a community.

Their culture, according to their website, promises a commitment to "creating wow experiences", and "being like glass", the latter of which bears a description that is far too close to implying that everyone will be watching each other in the shower. Add to this the fact that Anthill Online reported earlier in September that the guys were interested in facilitating what they call "idea-sex”, and everyone's now thoroughly uncomfortable.

Domain.com reported that the current price of about $1080 per month was "more than the most expensive share-house room currently available on flatmates.com.au, and roughly the same cost as renting a studio apartment in the city". Keep in mind that you have to live with 15 other entrepreneurial types, who you'll be sharing bikes with, and will be consistently surrounded by the Base's endless use of buzzwords, and the deal clearly becomes more and more attractive.

Disappointingly, it appears to be too late to nab a slot, as they've already chosen 16 residents from a field of 24 applicants. The duo appear to want to establish a warehouse as the official "Base", and the house that they're moving into soon will be retained for some kind of B-Team with potential candidates in case anyone moves out of the proper camp. While it all sounds a bit too Orwellian for our liking, it'll certainly be something to keep an eye on when it all goes awry.

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