Yeah, I was being a real nit-picker......sorry.
I just don’t see how too many are going to survive if they keep wanting it all, right NOW. When I discovered Sam’s Club and bulk buying, I realized that if you’re smart, you can save money on rent and buy regular quantities while living in a nice neough room/board, and whne you move into an apartment with expensive rent, you can save money on food by buying bulk quantities. It’s a matter of successfully balancing things out. I’m at a nice enough room/board and I pay under four hundred dollars and month that includes internet connection, and I am saving more than enough for food from normal grocery stores. The rules are no drinking, smoking, loud music after eight pm, and no pets of course. I have a cozy room of my own and a small portable heater heats it perfectly.
I think that for young adults, room/board places will be perfect homes since they will sort of be like living with thier parents, only not. Their own room to eat in, they do the dishes they use, move in and out freely, but after a certain hour they have to quiet down. It’s just minus the parents. That’s the best part. Plus rent is dirt cheap and they don’t have to maintain a whole place, just their room and the kitchen. If someone acts up, they get evicted.