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[JDPriestly]

15. I suppose I never had my own apartment either. That's because I married

at what is now considered to be an early age.

But as a couple, we only had to share an apartment with strangers when we lived in London. We never had to do that in the US.

But I know of seniors who have to share an apartment in order to survive in Los Angeles.

Having your own housing is part of being middle class. Having to share housing is something that I associate with living in a Communist or third world country.

It is not something that should be part of the American way of life. It should not be necessary for a working person to share housing with someone they are not related to in America.

That's 19th century stuff when people lived in boarding houses.

Only very poor Americans did that say in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. And they usually were not working 40 hours a week.

This is why Bernie points out that the middle class is being destroyed.