West Coast real estate is now so expensive that married couples are moving in with multiple roommates


West Coast real estate is now so expensive that married couples are moving in with multiple roommates


The number of married couples living with roommates has doubled since 1995, new report finds

Sometimes, multiple roommates. Just ask Kelsey Riley Dixon. The 29-year-old business owner and her husband, a semi-pro kayaker, share a four-bedroom home with three male roommates “to reduce costs in the very expensive city of Seattle,” she says. “It allows us to have a home in a really expensive city with a deck, a backyard, a basement — and we are able to pay half the rate that we would living on our own.”...

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RSK: My daughter and I were just talking about this. Nice to visit west coast but unless you have your dream job overpaying you nice to come back to reality and home.

Ken Notes: This is an economic development issue that Wisconsin does not push. EPIC and others talk about housing opportunities in their pitch to millennials but the state -- not so much...

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