This is actually not an uncommon situation among the lower classes. Even without high housing costs, the working poor often continue living together while divo

This is actually not an uncommon situation among the lower classes. Even without high housing costs, the working poor often continue living together while divorcing because they can't afford to physically separate. My employer worked on an e-divorce webapp for the provincial government and had to include this scenario in generating the self-filing paperwork: you essentially attest that you're maritally separated but still cohabitating for financial reasons. Of my several divorced friends, all have agreed that divorce is the most expensive way possible to become a two-house household.