If you had to you could if you&#x27;ve survived it in the past. Clearly if you have the money you can choose not to. Not everyone can. And even when you can <i>now</i>, health, finances, relationship status all change over time.<p>Over the last 20ish years I have gone from dorm life to living with a roommate to living with a girlfriend to living alone to renting a room in a house (twice) to living with a girlfriend to getting married to said girlfriend.<p>So many people don&#x27;t even use a kitchen so I can see where being able to live very cheaply with the bare essentials can be very attractive to many.