As a recent college graduate in the US, this is exactly how I feel. In college, there was very little privacy. I shared a room with a roommate, and that room w

As a recent college graduate in the US, this is exactly how I feel. In college, there was very little privacy. I shared a room with a roommate, and that room was one of two in a shared suite, with two other people in the other room and a common bathroom shared by all four people. I now share a 2br apartment with a roommate. I have a private bedroom, but a shared living room and kitchen. My apartment happens to be in the shadow of a very rich neighborhood, and the grandest homes here are secluded far off the road, often completely invisible to passersby, hidden behind dense foliage. They signal their existence to you through their formidable and ostentatious gates, but beyond that you have no glimpse of the private estate of the totally unknown and unseen owner. The owner has spent a vast sum of money--enough for most people to retire on, if not doubly or even triply so--just to build a completely private oasis in the heart of the city. For a lot of people here, that is the end-game: make millions, then spend most of it hiding yourself from the rest of the world.