Life involves taking risks and measuring people. Getting stuck with a shitty roommate is pretty low stakes on that spectrum.
> just a sign that people are getting richer (since this same trend is happening in all first-world countries)
Valid hypothesis. I’d posit Covid and the increasingly prevalence of single-child households are the more-proximate cause.
I lived in New York in an illegally-subdivided loft. Yes, I’ve had bad roommates. Yes, it felt overwhelming at first. And yes, I got over it, constraining the problem where possible and addressing it directly where necessary, a suite of skills that were probably instrumental in my start-up later working.
This is a sign of social isolation, not wealth.