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These stories are becoming tiresome. "Millenials" did not invent living in a house with roommates, or coops, or boarding houses, or SROs, or any of the living a

These stories are becoming tiresome. "Millenials" did not invent living in a house with roommates, or coops, or boarding houses, or SROs, or any of the living arrangements that have existed for centuries that pre-date scumbags in San Francisco trying to charge foolish engineers $1,000 for a bunk.

Sniffnoy 11y ago
None of these things are new, true, but they're not common. It's not so easy finding a co-op to live in if you're not near a university, or, for that matter, even if you are near one, especially if you're not a student. If they're becoming more common, that's a trend worth broadcasting; hopefully it continues. I'll agree that presenting it as a new invention, or something tailored for this radical new generation of "Millenials", is a bit obnoxious and misleading. But I'm still glad to see this sort of thing.
- ghaff 11y ago
  A number of those things have been very common and living with housemates at least was very common among professionals recently out of school a few decades back in my experience. I didn't personally but I knew many people who lived in a shared house for a few years after school.
  - _mgr 11y ago
    33 and I still "flat" with other people. I've lived with same couple for over 5 years now in two seperate places. We've stayed together as it were as we get on and can manage our lives without annoying each other. The only reason to do it, it halves the cost of everything i.e rent, power, water and internet. If I had't been so stupid with my finances in my twenties I might be in a different place but I would be wasting money without knowing it. I've been lucky with the flatmates I have now. I've had some average ones before and I'm not sure If I will do it for much longer but it has it's upsides.
- smacktoward 11y ago
  > It's not so easy finding a co-op to live in if you're not near a university CoWorks, the development in the story, is located exactly one mile from Syracuse University: https://goo.gl/maps/HhJmvrsFR6z https://goo.gl/maps/HhJmvrsFR6z
eli_gottlieb 11y ago
Very much agreed. This is just an economically rational response to the housing prices young renters face in urban areas and the lack of community they/we grew up with in the suburbs. Thus the logical solution: live with a bunch of other people, and form a community out of them.

Sniffnoy 11y ago

None of these things are new, true, but they're not common. It's not so easy finding a co-op to live in if you're not near a university, or, for that matter, even if you are near one, especially if you're not a student. If they're becoming more common, that's a trend worth broadcasting; hopefully it continues. I'll agree that presenting it as a new invention, or something tailored for this radical new generation of "Millenials", is a bit obnoxious and misleading. But I'm still glad to see this sort of thing.

ghaff 11y ago
A number of those things have been very common and living with housemates at least was very common among professionals recently out of school a few decades back in my experience. I didn't personally but I knew many people who lived in a shared house for a few years after school.
- _mgr 11y ago
  33 and I still "flat" with other people. I've lived with same couple for over 5 years now in two seperate places. We've stayed together as it were as we get on and can manage our lives without annoying each other. The only reason to do it, it halves the cost of everything i.e rent, power, water and internet. If I had't been so stupid with my finances in my twenties I might be in a different place but I would be wasting money without knowing it. I've been lucky with the flatmates I have now. I've had some average ones before and I'm not sure If I will do it for much longer but it has it's upsides.
smacktoward 11y ago
> It's not so easy finding a co-op to live in if you're not near a university CoWorks, the development in the story, is located exactly one mile from Syracuse University: https://goo.gl/maps/HhJmvrsFR6z https://goo.gl/maps/HhJmvrsFR6z

eli_gottlieb 11y ago

Very much agreed. This is just an economically rational response to the housing prices young renters face in urban areas and the lack of community they/we grew up with in the suburbs. Thus the logical solution: live with a bunch of other people, and form a community out of them.