{"id":2003,"date":"2007-01-11T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/the_emerging_emerging-adulthood_majority.html"},"modified":"2007-01-11T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T18:46:47","slug":"the_emerging_em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/the_emerging_em.html","title":{"rendered":"The Emerging Emerging-Adulthood Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is New York is a city where adults have roommates or a city of adult roommates? The cause\/symptom connection is unclear<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It used to be that if you were set on having a place all to yourself, you moved to the boroughs. But while rents are significantly less out there in no-man’s land, thanks to gentrification and rising apartment costs, roommates are still largely necessary. Wiener says, “In Brooklyn, [rents] have been creeping up. They call it the second Manhattan now. I have seen a rental increase almost on par with Manhattan. But still, there are deals to be had there.” Howard Wong, 33, a software engineer who lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn, shares a place with three roommates, two in their early 30s and one in their mid-20s. Their combined rent is $2,600, only $650 each.<\/p>\n

Clearly, having roommates is the financially savvy way to go. But how does living in a style close to dorm life during the prime of life affect one’s transition into adulthood? Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, author of Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties and editor of the Journal of Adolescent Research, says, “Emerging adulthood is a period of your life where you have a sort of independence and freedom to focus on your own life and your own self-development that you will never have so much of before or after.” Whether living with roommates is a cause or a symptom, the fact remains that many New Yorkers suffer from a mutated strain of Urban Peter Pan Syndrome. Without the emotional engagement required by the old ball and chain and the little chainlets and the responsibilities of home owning, these 30-is-the-new-20 roommates are free to indulge in, well, themselves.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is New York is a city where adults have roommates or a city of adult roommates? The cause\/symptom connection is unclear: It used to be that if you were set on having a place all to yourself, you moved to the boroughs. But while rents are significantly less out there in no-man’s land, thanks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culturalanthropological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}