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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Despite the high cost of living, DC ties for second nationwide in percent of solo households. Do people think it's because of single people moving here for work? People have higher salaries so the don't need to take on roommates?

[b]Any other theories?[/b]

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[i]"Housing costs, culture and age are the main factors in the level of solo living in a particular region. Nine of the 10 cities with the smallest share of single-resident homes were in California, which makes sense: It has one of the highest costs of living in the U.S. And seven of those 10 cities had predominantly Hispanic residents, who are more likely than other groups to share homes, including multigenerational households, according to the Pew Research Center. Topping the list were Moreno Valley, Calif., and Fontana, Calif., where roughly 90 percent of all households were shared, and where Hispanic residents make up a majority of residents.

Overall, though, fewer people are living in multigenerational households than in past eras, while an increase in life expectancy and a decrease in marriage rates is causing older people to live alone longer, according to a recent study on American living arrangements."[/i]

- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/realestate...gucQH&smid=url-share

- 170 years of change in living arrangements in the United States using expected years of life: A research note
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/wbc45_v2[/quote]

So you're saying DC has an especially high number of older and unmarried people compared to other large cities?[/quote]

Washington, D.C. has the highest labor force participation rate for those aged 65 and older among major U.S. metro areas.[/quote]

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