I think that young adults have a harder time finding housing then when I was a kid. Nowadays the landlords want a lot more in the way of security deposits and and rent and references than they used to! I can remember when I was fresh out of high school and I was looking for a house for rent. Naturally my parents were ambivalent about my leaving the nest! I went to the local college and looked on the bulletin boards to see if anyone was looking for room-mates.
I ended up living in a two bedroom house with one other guy and two girls. There wasn’t much privacy there, that is for sure! Pete had a pet snake that he kept in an aquarium in the living room. He used to feed it gerbils, which upset the girls a lot! I can remember one day when we discovered that the snake was missing! The girls were extremely upset! We couldn’t calm them down for love nor money! Fortunately we found the snake before bedtime that night, curled up in a corner of the laundry room. It wasn’t long after that Pete moved out of the house!