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Housing costs are so high that divorced couples are still living together

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Re: Housing costs are so high that divorced couples are still living together

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Post by alex_lav »

jeffbee wrote: post #4

Suppressed household formation is the reason why increasing supply often doesn't look like it's working. There are tens of millions of people who want to move out of their current situation into a smaller household.

I own my home and will be selling it at probably-a-loss next year because I have no use for it anymore. It's far larger than I need and I am no longer partnered. I'll be renting a studio or 1br and am very excited. I would love to sell this place to a young family or couple looking for a starter home.

Re: Housing costs are so high that divorced couples are still living together

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Post by Eumenes »

nine_zeros wrote: post #3

I know of 50 year olds living with roommates in SF Bay area.

If presented the option of living in the bay area with roommates in my 50s or living almost anywhere else but having my own place, I'm picking the latter every single time.

Re: Housing costs are so high that divorced couples are still living together

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Post by tomcam »

demarq wrote: post #30
tssva wrote: post #28

When we 1st separated in 2011 my ex-wife and I along with our young daughter stayed in the same house for about a year. It was definitely not the most comfortable of situations but I've had worse living arrangements in my life. After selling the house we both rented town houses. We should have done more communicating about that because we unknowingly ended up renting 2 doors down from each other. That was the living…

That’s hilarious!

It was obviously not hilarious, but I am trying desperately to respond in a way that seems positive, yet that reflects the humor of the situation without being insensitive. I am failing miserably.

Re: Housing costs are so high that divorced couples are still living together

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Post by janalsncm »

marifi wrote: post #17

That's all good and well, but people have been living together after divorce for a long time. This article seems to be nothing but anecdotal data. You almost had no choice but to do this before the '60s. Divorce has always been expensive, and people choose to cohabitate for financial reasons. Perhaps people have been cohabitation after divorce at higher rates since the Fed has raised interest rates, or perhaps not. B…

It probably shouldn’t go without stating that many separated women couldn’t establish credit on their own or open bank accounts. Banks weren’t required to lend to women until the 70s. My grandmother had this issue after she divorced.

Re: Housing costs are so high that divorced couples are still living together

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Post by kredd »

timeagain wrote: post #13
nine_zeros wrote: post #3

I know of 50 year olds living with roommates in SF Bay area.

Counterpoint: living alone isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A good roommate is as hard to find as a romantic partner, but living with people you like is one of the greatest joys of life.

Sometimes we joke with my old roommate (we live by ourselves, on different sides of the country) how both of us would absolutely move into a 4-bed apartment and be roommates again. We had a very good thing going on for 6 years, but I guess, gotta do the grown up stuff and live alone. It's not serious at all, since we both enjoy our solo-life, but also...

Re: Housing costs are so high that divorced couples are still living together

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Post by bombcar »

tomcam wrote: post #33
demarq wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s hilarious!

It was obviously not hilarious, but I am trying desperately to respond in a way that seems positive, yet that reflects the humor of the situation without being insensitive. I am failing miserably.

It’s darkly hilarious in all the ways people use the word ironic incorrectly for.

Re: Housing costs are so high that divorced couples are still living together

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Post by threeseed »

> Housing Costs Are So High

They left out the "in the trendy, inner city areas we want to live in" part.

Because whilst housing prices are rising in cities we are also seeing major declines in populations for smaller towns.

And whilst our parents were willing to sacrifice and embrace these towns which in turn became gentrified it doesn't seem current generations feel the same way.

Re: Housing costs are so high that divorced couples are still living together

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Post by huytersd »

alex_lav wrote: post #31
jeffbee wrote: post #4

Suppressed household formation is the reason why increasing supply often doesn't look like it's working. There are tens of millions of people who want to move out of their current situation into a smaller household.

I own my home and will be selling it at probably-a-loss next year because I have no use for it anymore. It's far larger than I need and I am no longer partnered. I'll be renting a studio or 1br and am very excited. I would love to sell this place to a young family or couple looking for a starter home.

Why not rent it out and pay for your studio that way.

Re: Housing costs are so high that divorced couples are still living together

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Post by yieldcrv »

One of the homeless studies in San Francisco several years ago found that of first year unhoused people, 20% of them were people that simply broke up with a partner they were living with. The bigger realization was thinking about the not depicted complement of that graph: these were the proverbial strong ones that actually left

I could see that reality spreading across the country.

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