If you had to you could if you've survived it in the past. Clearly if you have the money you can choose not to. Not everyone can. And even when you can now, hea

If you had to you could if you've survived it in the past. Clearly if you have the money you can choose not to. Not everyone can. And even when you can now, health, finances, relationship status all change over time. Over the last 20ish years I have gone from dorm life to living with a roommate to living with a girlfriend to living alone to renting a room in a house (twice) to living with a girlfriend to getting married to said girlfriend. So many people don't even use a kitchen so I can see where being able to live very cheaply with the bare essentials can be very attractive to many.