> What on earth can make adults choose to share their home with a stranger? There's a really simple one: lack of funds to afford their own place. Also, plenty

> What on earth can make adults choose to share their home with a stranger? There's a really simple one: lack of funds to afford their own place. Also, plenty of roommates are not strangers. I've lived with my brother and one of my best friends from high school, and really only lived with a true stranger during my first year of college, the first year I lived in Austin, and the first 9 months I lived in the Bay Area.