I&#x27;m not American so I&#x27;m slightly confused by the terminology here. In the article it says she was renting a one bedroom place and looking for a roommate. I&#x27;ve frequently assumed that when Americans say &#x27;roommate&#x27; they actually mean somebody they share a house with (what we would call flatmate or housemate in the uk), rather than somebody they share a bedroom with. But in this case it sounds like she was trying to find somebody to actually sleep in the same bedroom, since the place only had one bedroom.<p>In your comment you say you have &#x27;roommates&#x27;. So to be clear, you saying that you share a bedroom with at least two other people? And you consider this normal for an adult in a developed country?<p>Is this really the situation in SV now? People who are &quot;DevOps Consultants&quot; have to share bedrooms with random strangers just to afford to live?