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There are at least two dozen others on this list too.

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Second question: How does one afford to live in an airport?
- If you go to the wiki list and read some of the back stories.... Begging. A lot of them just relied on handouts to eat. Not too different from regular homelessness.
  
  With air conditioning. Hey buddy, can you buy me a $10 cup 'o coffee? Tho' I could def. see this being a sort of funky, off beat vacation destination.
  
  That sounds like at least luxury homelessness to me
- Free housing. How can people afford to live somewhere else in this economy is the better question.
  
  It’s the food cost I wonder about. I assume all other needs are relatively accessible at an airport for free.
How do they afford to drink at an airport if they've had difficulty finding work? Also, damn, can't smoke at airports anymore.
- Also, damn, can't smoke at airports anymore.
  
  Actually you can, even in the US, although it's limited to major international airports. The terminal smoking area is like a giant room with industrial ventilation and double "air lock" type doors
  
  I find the term "terminal smoking" very dark
  
  I think that's only available at a select few airports now. I saw one in Phoenix many years ago, but I've never seen one in Seattle SEATAC or any other major airports, possibly because I stopped looking for them. I used to pay extra to fly through Colorado instead of Phoenix because you could smoke in the airport bar in Colorado, while looking at a beautiful mountain backdrop. It was also just an all around better airport.
- Vegas has a smoking lounge with slots still and LAX has a balcony hidden behind some restaurants in one of the terminals.
  
  Last time I was ATL, it had dedicated smoking rooms, looked like a fucking smog aquarium.
- Can smoke at Manchester Airport, granted it’s outside, but you can still smoke whilst waiting for your flight after you’ve checked in.
  
  Noice! I don't smoke any more, but I have a lot of empathy for smokers after being addicted for a couple decades myself.
For those curious:

List of people who have lived in airports
Now this makes me wonder... is there a list on Wikipedia that lists every weird list there?
- there's a list for unusual wikipedia articles
  
  A cow with antlers atop a power line pole. Wikipedia contains other images and articles that are similarly shocking or udderly amoosing.
  
  Amazing.
- There's this. LoLoL
  
  List of lists of lists: This article itself is a list of lists, so it contains itself (see recursion)
  
  People > list of centenarians:
  
  For the Chilean town, see Lolol
  
  Sounds like a fun/terrifying place, the "land of crabs and holes"!
This sounds like something my husband would have done after Wal-Mart fired him from his management position.
Don't we all?

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