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Originally Posted by El Diablo
Ytf,
How old are your roommates and how much is your rent vs how much a place of your own would cost?
Oh, you don't care! You just want to see if there's anything I won't post about myself on the internet! Want a gif of my pay stub, while we're at it?
My current roommates are all mid-30's to early 40's. My last set of roommates were a guy my age (mid-40s) who owned the house, and two younger guys in their mid-to-late-20's.
I really don't know how much it would cost to get my own place, because I'd have to start by buying furniture--currently, I don't own any! After my divorce, I let my wife keep every stick of it, for the kids...and because I was moving cross-country, so it was much easier to leave it behind. I got my own place when I moved back home, and furnished it with second-hand stuff from CL. When I decided to leave my hometown again for a better paying job, it so happened that my niece decided at the same time to move back our hometown, and she was also in need of furniture, so I just gave her all my CL stuff, and I came to Minnesota with no furniture.
And since I'm planning to move out of Minnesota in the next year or two (or whenever they finally get casino gaming up and running in MA or NH), no sense buying furniture now to face the added expense of moving it later, when I can just move into someone else's furnished house. Place I'm in now has an in-ground swimming pool, a nice grill on the patio, an Olhausen pool table and jukebox in the game room, a 73" tv in the home theater, beautiful furniture, enormous kitchen, attached garage, cable and wifi included--I'm living the Life of Reilly over here, for much less than a barren 1BR 1BA park-on-the-street apartment!