Jimmy McMillan and his fellow New Yorkers are not alone thinking the “rent is too damn high.”

The rent is apparently so “damn high” in the city of Wuhan, China that some people have opted to share 4.5-square meter rooms

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just under 50 square feet

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with other people.

New York is one American city that can commiserate with the cost-cutting tactics of squeezing into cramped quarters with roommates. But most New York apartments have a bit more room than those found in a six-story building in China’s Hubei Province.