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I lived in a suburban single-family home with about 20-25 other people for a year when I was in college (each of us had our own bedroom, except for families whe
by jdavis703 9y ago
I lived in a suburban single-family home with about 20-25 other people for a year when I was in college (each of us had our own bedroom, except for families where children slept with parents). For the most part everyone there was quiet, either going to the college nearby or else working while studying for a professional license or graduate school. The landlord also lived there with an extended family of about 10 people.
We had a couple of rotten apples, but we self-regulated and kicked out people who caused problems in our house or for our neighbors. Yet, we still had people in the neighborhood calling the zoning inspector to "shut us down." Zoning laws make it hard to even live with "6 other girls" these days. Boarding houses are mostly illegal, and people don't really build SROs anymore.
- kasey_junk 9y agoHow many bedrooms/acres was that? I can see that running up against perfectly reasonable anti tennament ordinances depending on your answer.
- Sacho 9y agoIsn't that the point that GP is making? "Very reasonable" laws ending up hurting people through unintended consequences.
- xxSparkleSxx 9y agoIn the city I grew up in they had some arcane law on the books regarding brothels, so something stupid like no more than 8 women could live in one dwelling. Made it impossible to have sorority houses, though fraternity houses were still allowed.
- dismantlethesun 9y agoI remember the same in my college town. A group of my aspiring political friends lived in a house of 12 women in blatant disregard for the law and crossed their fingers hoping that someone would make a fuss about it so they could sue on virtuous grounds.
- exclusiv 9y agoI had that at my university too - only 3 non-related individuals could live in one dwelling. We had 6 in one house since the upstairs was setup as a separate unit with a door on the staircase that was always open haha.