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Originally Posted by memph
Students are always being really cheap
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Actually a huge number of them are supported by their parents or some other family money, which explains the explosion of "luxury" student rentals that have been built near every major U.S. university in the last 15 years.
I lived in a brand-new 4 bed / 2 bath unit back in 2002. At the time I thought it was amazing that there were two bathrooms in the apartment. Now, a lot of new student housing has a bathroom for each bedroom.
Also, anyone who has done some house flipping knows that there are two types of "starter" homes - those with just 1 bathroom, and then those with 1.5. There was like no such thing as a home with two full bathrooms in the United States until about 1970.
Most college students grew up in 2.5 or more bathroom houses, so sharing a single bathroom with roommates is like primitive camping. We're a nation that can't get enough bathrooms.