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Our school built a new Greek Village in 2014, with shared bathrooms on each floor and a mix of singles, doubles, and triples. The developer (who also owns a large student apartment complex across from campus) told us that students want singles and adjoining private bathrooms. All of the advisors scoffed and said, "No -- do the communal floor plan. That's the fun of living in a sorority house and they can share like we did!"
Four years later, and all of use some type of "draft" to fill the last few beds in our houses each year, even though our membership numbers are 4X the house capacity, because the members would rather live in the posh apartments with their private everything. While we always have members who love the big triples and members who want to live together, there are also several each year who want to live in but insist they must have a single. And there just aren't enough of those, even though we charge more for them. These members admit they just can't share or deal with a roommate.
Man, all the sharing and camaraderie was half the fun of living in the house!!! I loved it!
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