I’m glad that you have managed such a refined life, I don’t know when your dating youth was, I wonder if wealth and age has something to do with your experience being so incredibly different than life for most people, I wouldn’t even know where to go to find a rooming house for girls or rental agencies solely devoted to female housing, nor do I know what kind of girls you deal with who rent apartments next to your part time New York City residence.
A boy dropping out of high school won’t be moving into his girlfriend’s life and apartment, but a girl dropping out of high school is in high demand.
In my experience, males are more likely to have to support their own apartments than females, the females have an easier time of going from relationship to relationship which includes a roof, that is one reason that any normal looking youngish female has to be very off mentally to be living on the streets.
Without digging deeply, some quick numbers are about half of women have shacked up, and in 1995 a quarter of women age 25-34 were shacking up, and I think 34 was well into the older group where many have been married off.
In my experience I was thinking more of females 18 into their mid to late 20s as being the ones who drift from live in relationship to live in relationship,by the way, my son is a struggling artist in New York, he graduated Cooper Union about 5 years ago.
Hey, you can call me out on age (I just turned 57) but wealth? Refined? Sorry, I grew up in a working class family in Queens. I came of age in the 70s and 80s. I lived in many a dive with other girls my age. The boarding house I’m talking about was the basis for the movie “Stage Door.” It closed in the 1980s - so did the Barbizon - which is the temporary home of the heroine of Sylvia Plath’s novel “The Bell Jar.” It was a very middle-class hotel and I could only afford to stay there once in a while. Both of these residences were once well-known to New Yorkers.
Yes, indeed, my husband I rent a small apt. in NYC and there are several single women living there. I hear them going out the door at 7am every morning. I’m confused as to why you think this is rare. When I worked in offices throughout the ‘90s and early 2000’s in NYC, most of the women I knew were either living with roommates or living in apartments in the boroughs. Some, of course, lived at home.
If your son is having trouble finding a decent girl, I would suggest he join either a church that holds dances and singles events (my best friend found her husband this way) or join a great group called The Young Republicans (of NY).
Not only will you meet great, conservative people with this organization but you will be invited to events where you will meet many name Republicans and get to know them on a first name basis. That can also be a career boost.