Something I’ve noticed recently is many college graduates living alone. That’s fine. But it’s a weird default for early in one’s career. If I had one general piece of advice for anyone starting their career, it would be to seek out a living situation with roommates.
Side question: are more college students staying in solo dorms?
29% seems like a fairly neutral number.
No one here seems to care about the objective number (40 million) - they instead care about the relative amount (29%). If you look at the graph and track the percent, it's been at or over 25% since 1990. Having your share go from 25% to 29% in 35 years is not really that meaningful.
This isn't a new phenomenon in the US. The graph sucks because it hides the fact that the US population has been growing steadily.
After living with parents, roommates, spouses and others for most of my life, I'm super happy to live alone.
Has anyone stopped to think that possibly people live alone because that's what they want to do?
I can only think of a quote from one of my favorite youtube videos of all time:
"The monkey's feel alone, all 6 billion of them..."
From: Ernest Cline's spoken word reading of Dance Monkey, Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQOdNY-HdG0
Watch it, it's worth it...