Currently I'm a college student. I'm also going to be living alone.
My father is upset because living alone costs more than living with someone else, since it's financially cheaper to divide the cost of a two or three bedroom two ways.
Even though I know this, I think that the advantages of living alone far outweigh the financial cost savings. Unfortunately, my father only seems to see things from a money point-of-view, and how to do it cheaper. He doesn't even seem ever consider other issues to be of any importance.
Once, I asked him if he would live in a ghetto with gangs and such if it was cheap. He claims that he would. I doubt it, since he's never actually lived in such a place. I haven't either, but I know that I would consider that completely unacceptable. I have a hunch he would think so too, but he just can't see it.
He even said that he'd live in the equivalent of a broom closet, and that he could live out of a backpack. I shot back with "Next thing I know, you'll say that living in a car is acceptable."
Right now, he can't see why I'm seriously resistant to share a living space with someone else. To me, if it's not family they can't stay with me. After I move, my parents be 150 miles away, which is too far to commute. The nearest relative apart from them is over 800 miles away (cousin in NJ). No, I don't have any siblings so I cannot stay with them.
Fortunately, I was able to get the one bedroom apartment and I'll get to live alone. But next year when the lease ends this argument will no doubt come up again, and another fight will talk place when I live alone again.
Is there anyway to get him to see things my way?
P.S. If you, like my father, think I'm an idiot for demanding I live alone, I request you refrain from posting flames directed towards me. They don't achieve anything of useful value.
