For $380 a month, this 23-year-old lives on trains instead of renting

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17. "but you can't fit all your college documents in there too"

Much of schooling today is all-electronic - textbooks, class assignments, "papers" (essays) and other "homework" that are turned in, exams, library access for electronic book checkout, etc. Hell, back in the late '70s when I was in college, we all had an account on the school mainframe. One of my young nieces just started school this week with an online account for school assignments and a chromebook for class (this is elementary school). The little ones obviously still use paper in class, but for college, so much is online now and anything "paper" needing submission and/or archiving can be scanned via a tablet or cell phone app and uploaded and/or stored on a USB stick (and the paper discarded).

Bills are electronic, mail is electronic, purchases (even micro-purchases) can be done via debit or credit card (including electronic signatures), cell phones have replaced landlines, music is electronic, "television" and/or movies are electronic (via streaming), photos are electronic, etc.. Basically anything that one might store in a home other than the "basics" of food, clothing, toiletries, furniture, is in the ether. And all but the (big) furniture can be purchased as you go along (there are portable fold-up stools available). The one biggie for that generation is keeping their devices charged, and apparently all over Europe (and in slowly increasing cases here in the U.S. in certain cities), there are USB charging kiosks all over the place (for a fee).