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40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households

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Re: 40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households

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Post by lazide »

latexr wrote: post #6

If more people lived together with friends, that’d make a dent in both the housing and loneliness crises.

The issue is the number of people who ‘surprise’ you with out of control behaviors that are a huge issue with room mates. And getting out of living situation with someone like that can be extremely difficult.

People can seem perfectly fine, until they seem to spontaneously turn into hoarders, or start eating all your food and lying about it, or start being aggressively in your face about a bunch of antagonistic culture bullshit, etc.

I think what we’re seeing is Americans increasingly fed up with (or even terrified of) other Americans.

Re: 40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households

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Post by g-b-r »

b3ing wrote: post #2

Any causes? Is it that we are too independent and don’t like collectivism? A conspiracy might say it’s on purpose to have more people pay for things typically bought for a couple. Like everyone having their own house, cable bill, utility bill, water bill, …

Probably most of all the increase of the age of marriage

Re: 40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households

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Post by auggierose »

gniv wrote: post #13

It's not a high number when compared to other first-world countries: https://statranker.org/population/top-10-countries-with-high...

Interesting that UK is not in the top 10 list. Because of more ethnic diversity, or because they cannot afford single households?

Re: 40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households

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Post by g-b-r »

booleandilemma wrote: post #10
b3ing wrote: post #2

Any causes? Is it that we are too independent and don’t like collectivism? A conspiracy might say it’s on purpose to have more people pay for things typically bought for a couple. Like everyone having their own house, cable bill, utility bill, water bill, …

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Want to clarify what you mean?

Re: 40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households

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Post by mellosouls »

pavlov wrote: post #7

Is it a bad thing? People's life choices are their own. 29% seems like a fairly neutral number.

It's a bad thing if we want a cohesive society or if we wish to maximise well-being (both of which are challenged by people increasing their exposure to solitude and loneliness); and your claim about life choices is only partially true - we are all constrained/guided by genetic and environmental factors.
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