Posted on 11/24/2022 4:49:50 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If you were to look under the roofs of American homes at random, it wouldn’t take long to find someone who lives alone. By the Census Bureau’s latest count, there are about 36 million solo dwellers, and together they make up 28 percent of U.S. households.
Even though this percentage has been climbing steadily for decades, these people are still living in a society that is tilted against them. In the domains of work, housing, shopping, and health care, much of American life is a little—and in some cases, a lot—easier if you have a partner or live with family members or housemates. The number of people who are inconvenienced by that fact grows every year.
Those who live alone, to be clear, are not lonely and miserable. Research indicates that, young or old, single people are more social than their partnered peers. Bella DePaulo, the author of How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century, reeled off to me some of the pleasures of having your own space: “the privacy, the freedom to arrange your life and your space just the way you want it—you get to decide when to sleep, when to get up, what you eat, when you eat, what you watch on Netflix, how you set the thermostat.”
The difficulties of living alone tend to lie more on a societal level, outside the realm of personal decision making. For one thing, having a partner makes big and small expenditures much more affordable, whether it’s a down payment on a house, rent, day care, utility bills, or other overhead costs of daily life. One recent study estimated that, for a couple, living separately is about 28 percent more expensive than living together.
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One can become weird(weirder) living alone.
Yes, if you’re single, it does help to be well-off. Sounds like a truism, but it’s true.
my house payment is $550 a month(3 bedroom). the apartments across the way from me are at around $900 for one bedroom.
I disagree with this article...
All four of ours live alone. Two have roommates. One lives at Gramdma’s but is a OTR trucker so he’s gone 5-6 days a week.
The other is alone. She’s a book editor and loves her hermit lifestyle.
The trucker had a drunk destroy his parked pickup a few days ago while he was on the road. He’s having fun trying to settle that whole thing from far away.
My seventeen cats and I beg to differ.
"the stigma associated with not being partnered. “It’s oppressive, always getting pitied,”
Heh, well I'm envied by all my 'partnered' friends, and I don't envy them for a moment.
its a lot easier to say no after living alone for a few years. its a lot easier to tell someone to FO after living alone for a few years. My friends, dont even have to knock when visiting... Living alone is a choice I am content with.
I see where this is headed. We rented a 4 bdrm house one time in FL. The previous renters were Mexicans and according to my Puerto Rican neighbor, there had been up to 30 people living there. I noticed the dirt marks on the walls of one closet looked like someone had been sleeping there.
All to be part of the New Normal, Build Back Better, Great Reset.
You’ll own nothing and be happy renting a house from Larry Fink for you and your extended family and friends.
LOL, stocked up on Bota Box Cabernet Sauvignon?
What a bunch of Horse, cow, and donkey Schiff!
I own all three of those animals. I could add in
chickens, and a few others.
Liberal publications are not suitable for normal humans,
just for sick people that need drugs to survive.
Drugs like covid vaccinations or SSRIs.
I talk to myself too much…
I see where this is headed.
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Yup. More Great Reset prep.
KRAMER: What are you thinking about, Jerry? Marriage? Family?
JERRY: Well...
KRAMER: They’re prisons. Man made prisons. You’re doing time. You get up in the morning. She’s there. You go to sleep at night. She’s there. It’s like you gotta ask permission to use the bathroom. Is it all right if I use the bathroom now?
JERRY: Really?
KRAMER: Yeah, and you can forget about watching TV while you’re eating.
JERRY: I can?
KRAMER: Oh, yeah. You know why? Because it’s dinner time. And you know what you do at dinner?
JERRY: What?
KRAMER: You talk about your day. How was your day today? Did you have a good day today or a bad day today? Well, what kind of day was it? Well, I don’t know. How about you? How was your day?
JERRY: Boy.
KRAMER: It’s sad , Jerry. It’s a sad state of affairs..
JERRY: I’m glad we had this talk.
KRAMER: Oh, you have no idea.
All depends on the personality of person living alone. Majority are actually more social than partnered folks. Some living alone can turn weird by losing sense of reality.
Captain Obvious strikes again. I have a good lifetime friend who’s always been a bachelor and he’s beginning to admit that he’s going to be a big lonely as age advances.
I’ve been lucky enough to have had one wonderful wife (now deceased) and a second one just as wonderful. It is a blessing, and I cannot imagine not having a partner there besides me to help with the rough times.
Yes, you have 10 times more freedom than partnered folks.
A song in the key of "memememememe!"
And no one give a flip when you drop dead.
Or if you get sick.
Or you are sad.
Or have had a rough day.
And your JOB (something that few people seem to take seriously) also decides when you sleep, when you get up and when you eat.
Living alone has benefits too.
No apartment others burning down the building you live in with cigarettes or cheap li-ion scooters.
No one buzzing in people who don’t live in the building and causing problems.
No building rules that violate your rights.
No building people being able to enter your home without your permission on any number of reasons.
My cats and I aren’t lonely, we have FR.
Love the Kramer script. Pretty much what my life was like when I was married. 45 years after the divorce I’m still happiest living alone.
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