Coming from Europe, I would never EVER share a room with someone not bound by blood / romance. And for a house only in exceptional cases (vacation with friends etc).
But living in the USA I sometimes hear that people have strangers living in their house, renting out a room, or sometimes, even roommates.
And then I wonder, is it more acceptable here because they got over it when going to college?
Sidenote: I wonder if the concept of roommates pushed up the prices of 1 bd apartments, as now you can have 2 people in there, who combined pay more than a single person.
> I wonder if the concept of roommates pushed up the prices of 1 bd apartments
I reckon no, since you'd have to pay more than half of the original rent for the price to go up, but you at most get to have just half the room. A higher cost per square footage, which doesn't seem like a good deal, if you could have already afforded the full rent intially.
Coming from Europe, I would never EVER share a room with someone not bound by blood / romance. And for a house only in exceptional cases (vacation with friends etc).
But living in the USA I sometimes hear that people have strangers living in their house, renting out a room, or sometimes, even roommates.
And then I wonder, is it more acceptable here because they got over it when going to college?
Sidenote: I wonder if the concept of roommates pushed up the prices of 1 bd apartments, as now you can have 2 people in there, who combined pay more than a single person.