Spy Under Sky Chapter 317

Gavin Lin followed him upstairs while looking at the internal layout of the apartment building.

In Shanghai at that time, there were two types of apartments: one was a building-style apartment and the other was a street-style apartment.

The building-style apartments were luxurious and huge in size, with bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, and storage rooms. The most upscale ones even had dining rooms, study rooms, and servant rooms. Compared with residential buildings at the time, the building-style apartments not only had elevators and heating facilities, but also equipped tenants with advanced electrical appliances such as electric stoves and refrigerators. Of course, the rent was also incredibly high, far beyond the reach of ordinary tenants.

Compared with high-rise apartments, street-style apartments are much more affordable.

Street-style apartments are usually built in new-style lanes, somewhat similar to the dormitory for single workers in later generations. The room area is not large. The inferior ones have a single bedroom, while the better ones have a partition in the middle to separate the bedroom and the living room. As for the settings in the room, they are also very simple, with only simple configurations such as tables, chairs, and beds. As for the rent, it is naturally much cheaper, often only one-tenth or even one-tenth of that of a building-style apartment.