Property News · August 28, 2017

Living alone is out of young people’s reach. But what if we need space? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett


Being forced to live with a partner or housemates is normal for a generation who can’t afford to buy or rent on their own. This could lead to a few problemsHow tragic, laments the Telegraph, to discover that the bachelor pad, that sophisticated pied à terre beloved by men about town from James Bond to Bertie Wooster, is on its way out, largely thanks to Britain’s continuing housing crisis. The bachelor pad was, according to the newspaper, once considered “a right [sic] of passage for young men who had flown the nest and wanted to enjoy single life undisturbed”. Well, young men of a certain class, naturally.Moving in such low social circles as I do, I’ve seen very few bachelor pads, but in my single days I would always be impressed when I did. This, I would say to myself in awe, is a man who has got his life together. He is solvent. He has appliances. He is not, unlike me, the sort of person who mistakes a glass of neat gin for their bedside water and steps out of bed into a discarded dauphinoise. Clearly this is a mature, independent, worldly man who can teach me a lot. This one’s a keeper. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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