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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 tylerflick »

cal_dent wrote: post #95
xnx wrote: post #61

Part of the "housing crisis" is older Americans aging-in-place and using way more home than they need too. A widow/er might occupy the same suburban single family home in retirement that could house 5 people.

That in itself is a failure of society, that someone who has spent X amount of time in a home they love, have lived life in, raised their children in etc. is implicit expected to sacrifice all that so younger people can take the space. We just need to get better at redistributing our economic activity instead of concentrating everything in the same place and then wondering why everyone wants to live in the same and i…

It’s a complete mis-use of needed space regardless of someone’s sentimental value attached to it.

The culprit is not the concentration of jobs to a geographic area, it’s NIMBYs and crap like California’s Prop 13 artificially constraining supply.

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

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Post by nly »

OGEnthusiast wrote: post #82
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #43

When I was a twentysomething, I had roommates. This saved money on rent and bulk purchases (which let me spend more time having fun and save money) and provided a starter-kit social circle in a new city. It also honed conflict-resolution skills and ability to be civil. And when I got a partner, it made moving in together smoother. Something I’ve noticed recently is many college graduates living alone. That’s fine. Bu…

There's a huge gamble with roommates that you might be stuck with someone terrible in a year (or longer) lease. Most people who can afford to live alone would prefer to have their own place. This is just a sign that people are getting richer (since this same trend is happening in all first-world countries).

People aren't getting richer in all first-world countries. In the UK the average salary is only up a few percentage points in real terms over 20 years

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

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Post by auct »

expedition32 wrote: post #47
pavlov wrote: post #7

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

It triggers conservatives and Christians who believe in the nuclear family and biblical lifestyle. They despise liberty and agency.

Bible doesn't ban being single. So your statement is false.

According to bible you can be single or have family, be happy or miserable. The matters is to not commit sins.

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

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adammmmm wrote: post #67
hopelite wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s something europeans don’t yet understand, that “diversity” has utterly destroyed community, trust, and tranquility in the US; mostly because it has been forced upon people against their will in direct contradiction of the core tenets of the Constitution and founding principles of America. I realize hearing that or seeing that others may read that, may anger people who are deeply invested in the fraud that divers…

What is this legitimate research you speak of? Will you please provide sources?

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

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Post by snapplebobapple »

It's weird to see people discussing this from a "we're richer so we live alone because roommates are risky" angle instead of the actual angle of this being an indicator of the slow death of society because it indicates the increasing number of people that never grew up, formed a pair bond and had kids (and also the failure of many of those pair bonds ending in divorce and one or both sides of the pair living alone depending on if they had kids or not.
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