Oh my God they were roommates
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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I used to live with roommates. I still do, but I used to as well.
Don't worry many towns have laws against roommates I am sure with conservation fascism taking a hold in the world that this will soon be against the law period.
What towns have laws against roommates?
They used to be called brothel laws. They're usually written as a limit to how many adults who aren't related can share an address.
That's interesting. Do you have a source?
https://www.freeadvice.com/legal/zoning-laws-on-unrelated-people-living-together-in-the-same-house/
https://www.floodlaw.net/landlords-beware-four-unrelated-persons-equal-a-rooming-house/
https://evanstonnow.com/three-unrelated-rule-is-a-barrier-to-housing-affordability/
~~I found these on “google” if you’ve ever checked that site out.~~
Ha. Thanks for doing my homework for me. I honestly don't know what my original sources were... I've been aware of the existence of "brothel laws" for ages. I lived in a large intentional community (read: commune, but avoiding sexual connotations at least in a US context) for a long time and running afoul of brothel laws in the past was something I learned about there.
Ah I see where the confusion is. The original article referenced Canada. The brothel laws you sourced look like they’re from the US
Funny but they have these affordable housing laws in the us and I know of at least on suburb whos answer was rescinding these type of laws. In in some ways their affordable housing solution was roommates.
And they were roommates!
Roommates to the left of me, roommates to the right. Will there be any non-roommate people left if liberals are allowed to put pro-roommate books in our school's libraries?
This is the future that liberals want!
I'm 37. I'm on disability in BC for my mental health. I have 5 random craigslist roommates in a dilapidated old house. There are no other options. I hate having roommates, I prefer to live alone with some dignity. There is ALWAYS some shitty, childish drama going on, it's exhausting being the oldest.
It'd be wild if this was posted 10 years ago but we'll never know
I hate articles that don't include publish dates almost as much as I hate local news sources that don't list the city and state they are in.
Its not perfect but you can check archive websites for the dates that stories were archived: https://archive.is/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/household-finances/article-in-10-years-will-canada-be-a-country-of-roommates/ in this case, October 26th.
I call top bunk!