FWIW, I found it's cheaper per capita to live alone. Almost every non-negligible non-housing cost scales linearly. When I was alone I was happy in a studio; I c

FWIW, I found it's cheaper per capita to live alone. Almost every non-negligible non-housing cost scales linearly. When I was alone I was happy in a studio; I could work, sleep, exercise, have guests, etc. all in the same room. At most I'd have a small 1-bedroom, to hide the bed from guests :) With 2 people you need to have a separate bedroom in case only one person is sleeping, a living room to have guests (we also use ours for exercise, which has on occasion prevented me from exercising when it was occupied, so ideally we'd need a gym room too), then you need an office for each person in case someone else is in the living (or in case both are working and need space), suddenly it's a whole 3-bedroom house and it feels more confined than a studio did.