Talk to your servers next time your in a restaurant in the Bay Area or NYC, ask where (and how) they live. Most likely they live quite far from where you are e

Talk to your servers next time your in a restaurant in the Bay Area or NYC, ask where (and how) they live. Most likely they live quite far from where you are eating and with more roommates than you had in college. Or they still live at home, outside of the city in the suburbs they grew up in. You don't even have to ask servers, go ahead talk to non-engineers/PMs at your company. They all likely both don't live in the city you work in and have an uncomfortable amount of roommates. And maybe you can write off "living without roommates in your 30s" as a "lifestyle choice", but it certainly represents a decline in the standard of living from my expectations growing up.