AlterNet: Will You Have Roommates for the Rest of Your Life?

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Will You Have Roommates for the Rest of Your Life?

By Nan Mooney, AlterNet. Posted February 18, 2009.

Thought you'd leave your roommates behind after your career got going? Think again. Social mobility ain't what it used to be.



Kate Duyn spent her freshman year of college living with six roommates in a tumbledown house, with dishes in the sink and pot growing in the attic.

"It was totally new and totally crazy," she recalls. "Definitely a lot of fun."

After graduation, she moved to San Francisco, where she spent the next three years sharing various apartments, lofts and houses with her boyfriend and a collection of other roommates. She tended bar, waited tables and booked bands at a club, but never made quite enough to afford a place of her own.

In her mid-20s, after spending four months traveling through Europe, she landed in New York. For six months, she sublet an apartment from a friend, a cheap studio in Spanish Harlem.

"It was awesome," she recalls. "Of course, at that point I had no idea how good I had it. I only wish I could get those six months back again."

Then it was back to a tiny apartment, this time shared with her boyfriend and another roommate. When they broke up she moved out, heading downtown to hook up with yet another roomie, a friend of a friend, who was thankfully easygoing and out of the house a good portion of the time. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/127403/will_you_have_roommates_for_the_rest_of_your_life/

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. I certainly hope not - have scrimped and saved like crazy just to rent the cheapest place around

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presently living in a trailer on a farm just to have my own privacy

no running water, no bath or shower, no flush toilet . .

but I'd rather this than share a place

'tis all I can afford

and I know there are many out there that do not even have it as "good" as I do

(sigh)

[Blue_Tires]

2. had to move back with my parents again almost 4 years ago

thought it would be a temporary move, but still haven't made enough $$$$ to move out...