I live in an 18 sq meters Appartment and its totally livable for me. It is also cheap and Not those extremely expensive gentrifying Appartment complexes for "Young professionals".
As soon as you're Not single or have a Hobby that needs a little Bit of space you are fucked Tho.
The only difference between the Cocktail is Most likely that its more refined and with modern drugs so that There arent any as visible Side effects as There were for Hitler.