1. Listening to podcast about the Lower East Side and 19th Century tenements, and my standard of living is so much higher I don’t even know where to start. How about not living with 109 other people in a building with 20 apartments?
2. My own private bathroom.
3. Lighting in the halls; i.e., I don’t have grope my way up a darkened stairway to get home.
4. Ventilation.  I don’t sleep in one of the inner rooms that had no windows even opening into a vent.
5. I work at home, but my “parlor” is not even remotely a sweat shop.

Many thanks,

Me