Alone together (Lei Gao)

The title "Alone together" is interesting. The author uses some data to illustrate how is the situation of single households in New York City. For New Yorkers, the high urbanization leads people to select an isolated way of living. Everyone has his/her own business and living styles, which lower the attitude toward communication with others. Under the enviroment, more and more people decide to live singly. The final result is loneliness.

New York is the biggest city of business. People spent much time on their jobs and business. Compared with a relaxing style of life, they prefer a high efficient life. The high pressure of living here lead people to isolate from others, and focus on working. Especially, young people who want to have more income should work harder. That makes them have less free time to keep a long-term relationship with others.
Living toghter is based on long-term relationship. So we can see some single households living in the City.

The lonliness is necessary. Besides that, the urbanization has developed some ways to deal with it. Some people spend time online to keep relations with others. Some people enjoy their spare time in the Pub or Club. On the other hand, those solutions of lonliness provide turn ways for people to live toghter. Instead, they keep single in regular life, and enjoy themselves after work or in weekend.