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CEE refers to Central and Eastern Europe, so countries such as GDR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland. The situation was bad. It wasn't legal to rent.

• mcv 4y ago
  Fair enough. But communist countries, especially towards the 1980s when they were basically bankrupt, is rather a special case. In western, northern and much of central Europe, the situation was quite different.
  • EUROCARE 4y ago
    For sure, but that means the original claim > People in their 20s having their own digs is, I think, a decidedly American phenomenon. In most of the poorer parts of the world (including, for example, Central and Eastern Europe), 30+ years ago younger crowd managed to have sex just fine, using dorm rooms, snatching time while parents were away, etc. My 2c. is true then. It's only talking about the situation in the poorer parts of the world and not elsewhere, and gives CEE in 1980s as an example.
    • mcv 4y ago
      Only partially. It's not decidedly American, because it's also true in western, central and northern Europe. And probably many parts of the world. Most of the world is not communist.