We’re not meant to be independent creatures, all alone. We’re meant to depend on each other. It’s an unsettling truth: the less we depend on each other, the more we depend on the market. We summon eggs to our apartment via an app instead of simply asking a neighbor. We hire a therapist—incapable of loving us back by design —and forget to call our... See more

Yes, the average one bedroom apartment in New York is thousands of dollars, but part of the compromise of New York IS living with roommates or sharing space in some other fashion for longer than in other cities. You don’t move to New York as a fledgling cultural worker and automatically become entitled to make enough money to rent a one bedroom.... See more

But I wonder what it would look like for financial or personal growth to lead to different, better kinds of communal living instead of an exit from it altogether.