My mortgage payment for a two-bedroom condo is now less than my former monthly commitment for a one-bedroom rental.

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My plan was to buy a one-bedroom condo, but my dad convinced me that I should at least have a yard and a garage.

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That was almost four years ago, and today, as I sit here (in my underwear) at my desk in my bedroom, I am officially a full-time freelance writer.

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Attempting to recreate a Janet Jackson video in my bedroom, aged 14, the plastic fold-away chair I was using as a prop snapped shut on my legs like a venus fly-trap.

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For two years of my childhood, my six-person family lived in a cramped one-bedroom apartment, one of the thousands dispersed across the mean streets of Manhattan.

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Everyone wanted to know what life was like in my home country, the UK. How much does a one-bedroom flat cost?

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My parents are both professors and they now live in a brand new four-bedroom house in an upper-middle-class suburb in Philadelphia.

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