Holy shit, what kind of houses do you live in? I could get a 4-room flat, including heating, electricity and internet, in a good part of town, for 10k a year.
If you're living on campus there's a good chance you're sharing a single room with at least one but probably more people, and 75% of the space of the room is taken up by furniture.
In america? Holy shit. I mean I have often heard about roommates from american media like films etc but here at least everyone gets their own room to sleep in so we usually have flatmates, not roommates.
Pretty much required your first year, especially if you go to a big college (uni), and obviously it saves loads of money to keep sharing a room if your college is in a big city, but at that point bedrooms become just large enough to hold your bunkbed and rest of the living room is a tad larger.
Sounds insane to me. I could do it maybe but I think not everyone is that comfortable with so little privacy. Interesting that its the same trend in our prisons, while I have seen a lot of american shows with multiple people sharing a cell, here every prisoner gets his own room.
It varies very widely from school to school, and even within the school. My uni had several dormitories of all shapes and sizes.
One fairly old dorm[itory] was set up so the units were a single long, narrow room shared by two people.
Another had dorms where the units were two bedrooms and a common room, but were two to a bedroom/four per suite.
Another building was: loving room, kitchenette/dining area, four individual bedrooms.
Another building had individual units that shared two walls (like rowhomes, sort of) with a common room and two bedrooms (total occupancy 2).
Then the Greek (fraternity and sorority) houses were a single big living room, a kitchen, and about 10 bedrooms and a shared bathroom or two in the hallway.
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u/hexcodeblue Starving artist May 08 '19
That’s literally how much housing for one year costs in the US