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>What good does cutting out your $4 latte out do (maybe $100 per month), when your rent is $2,500 month for a 1BR? Easy solution: live with roommates. Cohabita
by wcummings 9y ago
>What good does cutting out your $4 latte out do (maybe $100 per month), when your rent is $2,500 month for a 1BR?
Easy solution: live with roommates. Cohabitation isnt the ultimate indignity, people are choosing to spend $2500 or more when they could spend less than half that. Even in Manhattan you could live uptown and pay less than that living alone, and be able to catch an express train downtown during the week. With a roommate your rent might even be sub 1k.
I know plenty of yuppies living beyond their means, spending $3000/mo on tacky "luxury" apartments, without much leftover even for things like $4 coffees. Cant say i feel too bad for them.
Or live alone somewhere far from the city center. Get a dumpy apartment in Worcester or Hoboken or [insert cheap city near your metro] and spend a couple hours on the train. Wont be fun but you sure wont be spending 2.5k on rent.
- rayiner 9y agoMy wife and I once shared a 420 square foot apartment in New Rochelle, NY with our newborn so we could pay for her final year of law school tuition without taking loans. So I know there are things you can do to save money. At the same time, I don't want to hear boomers talk about millennials' spending habits. My parents certainly never lived with roommates in their late 20s, early 30s.
- amenghra 9y agoSharing your apartment with your newborn is terrible. It's so much easier when you get them their own space early, no hearing all the crying in the middle of the night and all.
- thatwebdude 9y agoPreferably across the hall. Really cuts down on shared-wall noise.
- dikdik 9y agoI've not only always shared an apartment since college, I've shared rooms. Millennial, two STEM degrees, live in a 2nd-tier city, and likely a decade more before I can afford a down payment. So uhhhh....checkmate?