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Indian-American Millennials Among Urban Professionals Embracing Shared Living Space
Indian-American millennials are among those flocking to cities across the U.S. for work, and with rental prices skyrocketing in cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, the idea of co-living or community living in facilities like HubHaus has been gaining ground for some time.
In June 2017, when Ujval Reddy, an engineering graduate from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, moved to Palo Alto in California to join Tesla as a full-time employee, the Hyderabad native was worried just about one thing — where to find an affordable place to live.
When he’d moved a year earlier to work as an intern at Tesla for 15 weeks, he lived in what is known as a hacker house: it had 16 people crammed into four rooms.