Almost no one living in the top 10 most expensive cites in the country can afford to live alone.

Maybe just one parent because when I moved back home my father wanted to kill me every night. He had a heart attack in the living room one year after I moved in. Either one of us would be dead, he got it first.

Two words:

I absolutely loved living alone but also insisted on doing it in SF where I really should have had a roommate because $$$. If it’s an expensive place to live and you’ll have to have roommate anyway, why not at least live somewhere nice-ish?

It’s not paying more though... 1brs are like $3200 in NYC. I guess you can find Sub-$2k apartments in Flatbush or something...

Bond with your other roommates, find a place together, leave creep behind.

Well fuck you kinda just nailed me down and stared into my soul

This sounds like my hell but it is actually more like finding roommates on Craigslist and living in a kick ass building than it is like being in a dorm or an SRO. For $1375+ (which is, criminally, not insane for a bedroom in a NYC apartment) you get your own room in an apartment that has free utilities and basic goods…

Yes, it is. If I still lived in NYC, I’d probably be down just based on price alone. As a glorified hermit, I’d figure it out.

I 100% don’t get the snark. Life can be lonely AF and not all of us like being glued to our Laptops commenting on Jezebel all day eating cheese and intermitenly checking out cats on Neko Atsume. Community living is great but hard to carry out in cities, as long as the price is reasonable this is a fab alternative

Eh, I wouldn’t call it a flop house. However, I’d be interested in what the place looks like furniture and fixture wise after a year or two. If it’s ikea quality, shit’s gonna look pretty grim and broke dick.

I’m sitting here over in San Francisco thinking this sounds like an absolute steal.

Yeah, at least these are private rooms. The worst thing about my dorm experience was the two other girls I had to share a room with (and the fact that I didn’t have a women’s restroom on my floor, which I assume won’t be a problem with this place).

All true... but also don’t need to move to NYC and deal with expensive housing options at all. lol

Damn, not much more expensive than my actual dorm cost in San Francisco. And, I had to share rooms with 4 3 other people.

I dunno i get it tho

... isn’t $1375 for your own room with facilities actually a pretty great deal in New York City these days? Maybe it’s not on Manhattan proper.

While this isn’t for me, the less-snarky aspect is that it is encouraging community in a society that is ever-more less-communal. As a young adult after college I moved to the other side of the country, lived alone, and had no community. This is one positive side of housing like this.

Does it cost $1375 or $2,000 a month to live here? If I was 22 years old, and getting a first job salary and lived somewhere with decent amenities I could hack it. What’s the difference between this and sharing a small 2 BR in the East 90's?

“Oh shit, oh, sorry, sexual harassment. You can do the same to me if you like,”