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It was explained in 4x01 that Oliver and Felicity got the place because Thea hadn't lived there since Ra's nearly killed her there. She lived with Laurel, instead.
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I don't think Oliver really cared and just gave it to her. He's probably getting a new better place in being the mayor anyway? I thought Thea lived there too, or did she get her own place? I can't remember.
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Yes, I couldn't agree more. I wonder what happened to Laurel's apartment after she died and why Lance isn't living in it.

Yes, I couldn't agree more. I wonder what happened to Laurel's apartment after she died and why Lance isn't living in it.

Technically Malcolm Merlyn owns the appartment.
I honestly hate to look at that apartment after season 4. Almost all of the Smoak-family scenes were in that apartment.

I think they love the set and don't feel like building a new one, so she's staying.
Though I can see why Oliver and Thea both didn't want it.

I still cannot get over Fefe Binks being such an annoying character.

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she came out to give him a cup of coffee
Hot chocolate. She brought him hot chocolate. She was out of marshmallows.
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Right, but they used the townhouse front for it, I think.

It was two different places. The townhouse we saw the outside of was in season 2.
The place we saw the inside of in season 3 was a real life apartment.

We only saw the inside of that cute apartment of Felicity's once, in 3x05 I think. That place was lovely and I wish it had become a proper set, but they actually filmed those scenes in an actual apartment, it was never a built set, which is why we only saw it once.
We're down to small details now, but I actually think it was a house, one of those American suburban houses with a lawn in the front. I remember that I was surprised that a young single woman (who wasn't a CEO at the time!) could afford the down payment for a house. But I may be misremembering.

We only saw the inside of that cute apartment of Felicity's once, in 3x05 I think. That place was lovely and I wish it had become a proper set, but they actually filmed those scenes in an actual apartment, it was never a built set, which is why we only saw it once.
I think it's daft that they still have Felicity living in the loft, but it's because they can't afford a new set.

Every time I see that it just bothers me. She really needs a new place.
I think Felicity once had a suburban house of her own. I distinctly recall scenes like the one where Diggle was surveying her house because of some bad guy, and she came out to give him a cup of coffee. We have also seen Felicity inside her home with Ray. I don't know what happened to that housemaybe she sold it when she left Star city to travel around the world with Oliver and settle in that town whose name I can't remember right now?
Anyway, the fact that Felicity is living with her new BF in Thea's lair is probably due to a limited production budget. It seems as though "Arrow" producers can't afford too many sets right now (that ugly-ass Laurel gold statue probably made a big dent in their budget!) and that's why sets are so scarce. Come to think of it, it's not really clear where anyone is living right now. Quentin seemed to have shacked up in some sleazy rented room in the season premiere, and Oliver probably sleeps on a mattress in the Lair. Or maybe there is some kind of mansion for the Star City mayor to live in?

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No. Oliver doesn;t own the loft in the first place.
So no, it is budget problems.

there is a scene where Oliver is moving into the lair. It's in episode 4.20, right before he goes to meet Esrin Fortuna.
He had already been living in the bunker in that episode, he wasn't just moving in. That's just when Felicity realized he was living there.
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What so she takes the guys house and makes a joke about getting a fern, because he is living in a dank place. I honestly can't remember that, I must have missed it because I would have turned off the show right there.
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The point is,
HE
didn't give her anything, because it wasn't his to begin with. It was Thea's (technically Malcolm's).
We were never hinted on screen that she bought the place or rented it, in any case, this is a continuity error, one of many from S4.

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