Comment on Anon lives on a budget

• x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        In a thread about a post about “flyover nowheresville”

        In a thread about a post with the words “The american experiment has utterly failed and I hate you all”

        In a thread about a post with the word “obongocare”

        In a thread about a post with the concept of a healthcare crisis leaving you destitute, ruined, or dead

        “Maybe you’re talking about the US”

        LMAO

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Getting roommates is the part I wouldn’t call easy.

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    • magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • autriyo@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Roommates that one gets along with.

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