>>60803436
You'd think so, wouldn't you?
Come this winter, when rent prices reduce, I'll probably just get my own place. It'll be more than twice as expensive, but at least I won't be paying my own parents one thousand damn dollars per month.
In their fucked up mind, $1000 is a better price than what they would offer to others for my room. They also say it's for cultural reasons (every single person I've talked to thinks it's insane), and that it is to help prepare me for the real world, as if I don't already know how to budget.
I think they are just greedy. It makes me so angry.