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Spending your entire life as a young adult doing that sounds dystopian. May that never become the norm.

• joshuamorton 8y ago
  Eh it depends, I live with a roommate because I choose to. We're friends, we do things together, it's nice. I could live without one, my rent would be marginally more, though I'd still probably bank close to the same. But the social aspect is really nice.
  • pmiller2 8y ago
    Living with roommates by choice isn’t that bad. Needing to live with roommates for financial reasons when one really would rather have a private space to come home to is hell.
• jniedrauer 8y ago
  It's better than spending your life as a young adult working degrading jobs and starving. In the broad scheme of things, being a programmer is not so bad.
• stale2002 8y ago
  Living in San Francisco, working at a big 5 tech company really isn't that bad. Even the "worst" of the bunch on the work life balance scale, only do around 60 hours a week. Most of them just do the standard 40 hrs a week, though. So it really isn't giving up your youth or anything. And many young people even enjoy the city of San Francisco. It is a big city. Lots of stuff for young people to do...
• closeparen 8y ago
  Private, quiet space is a visceral need for some people and a frivolous luxury for others. In my experience it's very difficult for the people in these two groups to understand each other. A craving for solitude is an expensive trait, but one I have no qualms about indulging: after spending all day in a giant open floorplan and then commuting on a crush-loaded train, if there were Craigslist strangers in my home I'd be in hell.