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John

John — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

And young American’s think they have it tough when they leave high school or college!

Any idea what can be done to help? Perhaps building cabins outside of the city? I would love to fly in and show these people how to quickly build very inexpensive and decent American style cabins. 1-2 bedroom houses...

No, NOT because I want to hang out with a bunch of bachelors! But to help out.

Karim Khan

Karim Khan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

If they are made to live in cabins or even houses outside the city, it would amount to subjecting them to greater humiliation. The root problem is not their housing but getting them social respect and acceptence as harmless individuals. Not having a mate does not mean that bachelors are immoral or offendors. In fact, the number of problems reported for married people far exceed those reported for bachelors. Perhaps media can do something to abate this prejudice.

Sharmila Chakravorty

Sharmila Chakravorty — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

:-| but why?? as in, just because they are single and well, males? poor guys, i wonder how they live, cramped and uncomfortable, im sure.

i dont think the situation is as bad in India, but people normally dont prefer renting their houses to anyone who is single, be it a girl or a guy. I fail to understand the logic behind this though.

Karim Khan

Karim Khan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Well, you can’t find a valid, justifiable reason behind it. Why? Because there is no such reason. HOwever, you may think of it as a stereotype that may be explained by appeal to common practice. Imaginary threats about ’what can these guys do?’ are allowed to loom in one’s minds and shared with others. This gives brith to the bachelor (or any other) phobia. Phobias are irrational fears, you see. We are living in a sick place.

May

May — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Single women are also not welcomed in many places if the landlord is not particularly the womanizer type. In France there was a big housing scandal where landlords demanded sex in exchange of accommodating young students and the students had no choice but to oblige.

Neha Mahajan

Neha Mahajan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Karim, this happens in India as well. I can talk about areas nearing Dlehi university, where not only people differentiate on the basis of sexes but also on the basis of what part of India one belongs to.

Young girls and boys from North East, have to face a lot off trouble at the hands of uncles and aunties who end up asking high amount as rent and security deposit.Same goes for our friends from Bihar. Well there were cases of misconduct from certain groups, but evrybody is like that.

The quality of accomodation, you bet only a handful can get what in real words are called clean andd hygenic.

Yash

Yash — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It’s the same in India. I experienced this when I joined college in Delhi and was looking for an accommodation. Every decent looking residential houses turned me out because I was a bachelor. This doesn’t extend to just students. You workers who are bachelors face the same problem. This results in many ghettos where you would find single students or young executives staying in clusters.