It&#x27;s a pretty standard studio size as far as I know... I live on roughly 40m with my gf. Having 25m to myself would be perfectly fine. My brother lived on 16 as a student, although the kitchen was shared in the hall, otherwise it was his own unit. Anything above 20 would be fine, 25 nice and anything above great, for a single person studio. And this starts at 24 up to 33, with a nice modern fit and space-saving furnishing, too.<p>Guess they really liked the whole &#x27;micro this micro that&#x27; branding, it&#x27;s sort of a theme in housing right now and generates more buzz than &#x27;new Manhattan studio&#x27;s for sale&#x27;. I mean really, there&#x27;s no way in hell we&#x27;d have a HN article on a new bunch of studio&#x27;s in Manhattan if it didn&#x27;t carry the word micro apartment with the theme &#x27;new regulations were needed for micro blabla&#x27;.<p>I mean I appreciate the discourse, don&#x27;t get me wrong, in various cities the regulations stipulate minimum building standards that don&#x27;t fit today&#x27;s world anymore. Yes it sucks to raise a family on a small footprint, particular in a world where books, a TV, music player etc take more space than a laptop, phone and tablet. But using the word &#x27;micro&#x27; is a bit silly.