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This is absolutely it. You can't get the weird, good and bad, unless your cost of living is so low that subsistence can be met with minimal effort. That free time is necessary to do acid and work on the crazy stuff that people don't understand, yet.

I, a millenial that pays $2k/bedroom, am always struck by the portrayals of the 1960s where people in their 20s live 10 to a loft and make rent working a few nights a week at the bar downstairs.

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hardly limited to the 1960s, you can still do this in 2020 even in an expensive place like los angeles. pandemic aside, people living cheaply with many roommates and getting by on the wages of a bartender or minimum wage film set production assistant aren't even rare - the old pabst brewery on the eastern fringe of downtown LA is an entire campus of it. it just requires compromises on things that one is less likely to make if $2000/mo/bed is an option.

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