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They are trying to make it sound better and convince them to share more things and own less, because it's green. It seems to promote dependence, and we are supposed to think that owning things is uncool and materialistic. Only the rich are ok to own things. We can all just rent from them, and be all hip and communal. Not only that the apartments are getting smaller, not small and confining, but "tiny", as in cute.
I guess. I mean, one of our apartments seemed to have about 10 people in it half the time, and we were communally having dinner, sleeping, etc.
Going on vacations and sleeping on hotel floors... etc. It was fun. We all liked each other.
Until we decided to get really serious about stuff like marriages and families and just wanted space.
I have seen people living in tiny houses who are married and really think they'll like it, but these people often don't have kids yet... the ones with little babies amuse me because I cannot imagine anything more miserable than trying to live in one room and a single bath with a tiny infant once they hit toddlerhoood.
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"In 1975, only 25 percent of men aged 25 to 34 had incomes of less than $30,000 per year. By 2016, that share rose to 41 percent of young men," according to the report.
"That is a product of a shrinking blue-collar economy," said Anthony Carnevale, director of the Center on Education and the Workforce, a non-profit institute at Georgetown University."
So, your Standard of Living is declining. I predicted that way back in 2008. What of it?
If two families need to share a 3 bedroom apartment to make ends meet, then that's what they need to be doing, because I'll be damned if I'm going to subsidize the Life-Styles and Standard of Living for others.
Most of the living with roommates we did and the same for others we knew--- it was like communal living
And when you are 25 or so and younger, everyone needs to try as a way to get out of the house and learn something.
No jobs and 400 rent
50K job sharing 5K rent with 3 others on a 2 BR.
So you do what much of the country does, and commute a couple of hours to work everyday. I know some people doing 2-3 hours a day road commuting.
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