Living alone is pricey, but all households have their cost | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian

Living alone is pricey, but all households have their cost | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian

Living alone is pricey, but all households have their costStatus has come before preference for too long: those who'd prefer to live solo or communally are pushed into pairing off


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Zoe Williams guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 6 July 2011 21.30 BST Article history
If you're young, solitary living is taken as a sign of success; but in your 30s living arrangements are much more proscribed. Photograph: Studio Liquid / Alamy/Alamy
Living alone costs an extra £3,500 a year. And what do you get for your money? More time to read and stare out of the window; the ability to make a reasonable inventory of what's in your fridge, knowing that no bugger has been at your picnic eggs; the freedom to walk about naked. You could probably find a housemate who would accept all these things for much less than £3.5k. If only we could import a few honest values of the marketplace into the hearth, things would be so much more efficient.

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