living alone is a luxury all over the world. i don’t think it’s good to expect minimum wage will afford you a luxury style of living. we don’t have the infrastructure to support that for all. nor does any country
2 people sharing a 1 bedroom is a pretty low bar, I think minimum wage should afford someone their own bedroom. However I do often see people claiming no one should have to have any sort of roommates, even if they are a single minimum wage earner trying to support a spouse and children. I agree with you in that I don't understand why having to share a kitchen or living room is such an issue.
The problem is always finding good roommates who aren’t secretly murder hobos. Sharing can work, but it seems to be getting harder and harder as we have to rely more and more on close vetting via friends and family.
Why is it hard, and harder now, to find "good roommates who aren’t secretly murder hobos"? I and many others I know have found plenty of roommates, no problem. Not every roommate is perfect, including you and me, but there have been zero murder hobos.
I think the internet might be the problem? It used to be that we would use personal networks to find roommates because that was all there was, but with the internet, more people are connected to each other, and there is less intrinsic vetting via social circles. So that friend of a friend on Facebook could be anyone.
> The problem is always finding good roommates who aren’t secretly murder hobos.
As in a roommate who murders hobos or who is a hobo that murders? If a hobo becomes a roommate, are they too stationary to still be a hobo?
A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. Hoboes, tramps and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: A hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; and a bum neither travels nor works.
