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QuadmasterXLIIyesterday at 7:42 PM1 replyview on HN

In college in the university dorms I was logistically and emotionally fine day to day sharing a room with a friend and a hall bathroom with a hall of acquaintances, although in hindsight the price was absurdly inflated for that amount of real estate.

https://housing.unc.edu/apply/rates/

Yep, at the moment renting a room at UNC costs 2200 a month if you share it, nearly twice the mortgage on a 3 bedroom house. There's some disease in the american economy where cost cutting code actions magically inflate costs, and we buy it.


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bluGillyesterday at 7:52 PM

University is the one place where you find a lot of single people and thus housing the fits their needs. Though I agree the costs seem out of control.