Is it a bad thing? People's life choices are their own. 29% seems like a fairly neutral number.
People's life choices are their own, but if many people choose to live alone, that objectively affects housing situation in the society.
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40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households
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#22Is it a bad thing? People's life choices are their own. 29% seems like a fairly neutral number.
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#23If more people lived together with friends, that’d make a dent in both the housing and loneliness crises.
Living close to friends seems like a good idea as well.
Living in suburbia has definitely made me yearn for this: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/should-more-of-us-...
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#24If 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 cultu…
I moved in with one of my closest friends a few years ago, someone I considered a brother. In less than a year, I got someone to sublet and have not spoken to him since. I had no idea someone could be such a tool.
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#26If more people lived together with friends, that’d make a dent in both the housing and loneliness crises.
Then again how many more people would live alone if they could afford to rent or buy on a single income?
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#27Any 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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> Unrealistic expectations from women
And men too... lots of them stay adolescent well into their 30s and require a caregiver or a substitute mom more than a gf/wife. Men exclusively blaming women for their problems tend to be basement dwellers or other kind of failures who don't want to take any responsibility
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#28Is this page just a single chart and a massive legal disclaimer?
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#29Is it a bad thing? People's life choices are their own. 29% seems like a fairly neutral number.
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#30Is it a bad thing? People's life choices are their own. 29% seems like a fairly neutral number.
> People's life choices are their own.
How do you know it's by choice?