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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So is everyone supposed to live with roommates until they are 30 or married (which is really just another version of having a roommate/multiple income household).[/quote]

I lived with roommates after college, during law school and for 4 years after law school so I could pay down my loans as fast as possible.  Almost everyone I know did too - and I was working in Big Law. I never ate out until I started working in Big Law, and then only occasionally.  Of course, it helped I was working insane hours usually well after 9 pm, so dinner was on the law firm or client.  I didn’t get my own place until I was 32.  It’s the nature of living in the DC area.  This was all in the ‘90’s so not recent either.

The one thing I will say is that college was more affordable back in the day. I did get scholarships and came out of undergraduate with only $25k in loans (top 15 private university), but I worked for 2 years to pay it off before going to law school. Also had partial scholarship to law school, so only had $93k loan upon graduation.  It’s crazy people are coming out of law school with $150k-200k worth of loans on top of their undergraduate loans.  It’s basically a mortgage payment these days. [/quote]

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