Moving is expensive, but if you're splitting rent with someone and you're most likely a person with no dependents as we're talking about 18-25 year olds here, even on minimum wage you can save some.
Also I've never seen a city where if you go an hour outside its limits you will be paying the same as in the city. If you can't handle being an hour outside a city you like, then yeah, I judge someone who says "I can't afford it but I have to live in this city so I'm living with my dad but my dad can't impose rules on me because I'm an adult!"
Anyway this is all irrelevant to discuss in VMs, please reply on the thread if you want to talk. I don't want my VMs all cluttered up with debates that exist on threads specifically made to debate.