Author Topic: Have you thought of living in a dorm to save money?  (Read 10338 times)

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Re: Have you thought of living in a dorm to save money?
« Reply #50 on: March 09, 2018, 11:31:51 PM »
About 20y ago I lived for a few months in a huge house with 19 rooms. It was gross, most people  were pigs. So no, I wouldn’t do a dorm or frat house again. It was about 1/3 the price of a 1bdm apt.

But my friends condo has a great shared space & I’d be more open to something like that.

I could also live with extended family. Most single family homes aren’t well set up for that but you could get creative.  A neighbor built a MIL garage suite. 

I have this dream vacation home idea with private studio rooms but a shared kitchen & common area.
Inlaws, cousins, friends and maybe AirBnB strangers would all be welcome.




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Re: Have you thought of living in a dorm to save money?
« Reply #51 on: March 10, 2018, 07:52:25 AM »
Maybe if I wanted to try and bang college chicks it would be ok (and by that I mean lame).  But at 37yo?  That's just creeper.
When I was 39, I dated a 19 y.o.  Are you saying I was a creep?

I dated an 18 year old when I was 28 and I was called a creep too. Apparently, 18 year olds and 19 year olds are not adults in Bizarro World, even though they can vote and serve in the armed forces. Far too many pearl clutchers around here.

I know a guy who was 52 at the time dating one of his 16 year old college students (it was in Europe).


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Re: Have you thought of living in a dorm to save money?
« Reply #53 on: March 10, 2018, 09:07:08 AM »
Maybe if I wanted to try and bang college chicks it would be ok (and by that I mean lame).  But at 37yo?  That's just creeper.
When I was 39, I dated a 19 y.o.  Are you saying I was a creep?

I dated an 18 year old when I was 28 and I was called a creep too. Apparently, 18 year olds and 19 year olds are not adults in Bizarro World, even though they can vote and serve in the armed forces. Far too many pearl clutchers around here.

Heh.   When I was 19 and a freshman college student, I was asked out by a guy who was 28 and who had decided to attend college after a stint in the army & the working world. He was starting grad school when I met him and was recently out of a long-term relationship.  The age difference made me a little reticent about a first few dates, but my decision to date him was one of the best I ever made in my life.

Thereafter, my entire social circle at college was considerably older than me, and I was immediately immersed in a community that was highly focused on academics and career oriented summer jobs, many of whom had close working relationships with faculty, and all of whom were through with the 'stupid' stage of partying, blowing classes, and wasting time and money. In other words, I was dating a mature man rather than a typical college freshmen guy. 

We're still together almost 28 years later.

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Re: Have you thought of living in a dorm to save money?
« Reply #54 on: March 10, 2018, 11:40:13 AM »
Not sure the wife, kids, & Golden Retriever would go for it.

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Re: Have you thought of living in a dorm to save money?
« Reply #55 on: March 10, 2018, 12:26:42 PM »
Not sure the wife, kids, & Golden Retriever would go for it.
Another 20 something people to beg for food....my dog would love it.

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Re: Have you thought of living in a dorm to save money?
« Reply #56 on: March 10, 2018, 02:26:34 PM »
Not sure the wife, kids, & Golden Retriever would go for it.
Another 20 something people to beg for food....my dog would love it.

:D

I actually knew a golden lab in that situation.

He lived with his lecturer owner at a small, very specialised college with about 30 students.

He begged table scraps and treats from everyone at the college and put on so much weight his owner had to ban everyone else from feeding him.

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Re: Have you thought of living in a dorm to save money?
« Reply #57 on: March 10, 2018, 03:16:16 PM »
Maybe if I wanted to try and bang college chicks it would be ok (and by that I mean lame).  But at 37yo?  That's just creeper.
When I was 39, I dated a 19 y.o.  Are you saying I was a creep?

I dated an 18 year old when I was 28 and I was called a creep too. Apparently, 18 year olds and 19 year olds are not adults in Bizarro World, even though they can vote and serve in the armed forces. Far too many pearl clutchers around here.

I recall the rule being something like (your age) / 2 + 6 (or 8} so it might have been sort of awkward in your case...but in the olden days that would have been pretty normal so more power to you I say.  Her dad might have thought otherwise though.  If he was cool with it then game on I say.

Her parents were quite happy about the relationship because I had a steady job earning $37000/year. That made me a prize up on Hillbilly Mountain. My girlfriend bragged about how "well-established" I was. I'm still friends with her today. She was a nice person.

37k...funny number. Straight out of college my wife made 37k/yr and I made just under 60k.  I though I was big shit. Ffwd to now...I make maybe 160k but my wife makes almost 500k/yr.  Oh how things change. Luckily I saw the potential in her when she was 16yo (read: 100% luck).

Jeez, with numbers like those, you should have been able to retire in, like, two years. Wow. You could probably buy the entirety of Hillbilly Mountain and rule over them as King and Queen for Life.

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Re: Have you thought of living in a dorm to save money?
« Reply #58 on: July 14, 2018, 12:16:40 AM »