Is it okay to raise a child in a one-bedroom apartment?

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

1. 1
   Giving the child the bedroom while the parent sleeps in a nook off the living room
2. 2
   Relying on nearby parks and green spaces
3. 3
   Joining a waiting list for a two-bedroom rental
4. 4
   Putting the two older children in a shared bedroom and giving the baby a separate room
5. 5
   Keeping the two older children in their rooms and having a hypothetical third child share a room with the parents until older
6. 6
   Limiting family size strictly to the number of available empty bedrooms
7. 7
   Using a playroom as a temporary sleeping space until children are old enough to share

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.