Comment on Anon lives on a budget
x00z@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Besides fighting the system, a good solution in cases like this is to find roommates. You can easily drop your rent and utilities cost to a third of what you’d normally pay.
Comment on Anon lives on a budget
x00z@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Besides fighting the system, a good solution in cases like this is to find roommates. You can easily drop your rent and utilities cost to a third of what you’d normally pay.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Easily” seems like a stretch.
x00z@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Most roommate situations are 2 or 3 people. So that’s either half or a third of the cost. I’d call that “easily” yes.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
A half or third of the cost… that has been doubled or tripled due to enough space that you’re not sleeping together. I lived in a flyover town in a situation similar to the poster. A studio apartment sucks. Trying to shove another person in there is a nightmare, and getting a slightly bigger apartment balloons your rent in a cartoonishly exaggerated manner.
x00z@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The more rooms an apartment or house has, the less you pay for each one separately. I paid less than €300/month living with 2 other roommates.
Maybe you’re talking about the US.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Getting roommates is the part I wouldn’t call easy.
magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 months ago
If you have absolutely no standards, it’s easy. If you’re trying to filter out the assholes who will make your life hell, then you’re right, it’s not easy.
autriyo@feddit.org 2 months ago
Roommates that one gets along with.