<font color="#880000"> I have a few close girl friends who recently signed a year long lease on a house in North Jersey. They're moving in this month.

I'm very concerned about them...Honestly, I think it's a bad idea for a million reasons.

I tried communitating this to one of the girls, but it didn't go well...She got pretty annoyed with me mostly b/c she thought I was being silly. I know I have no power in this situation, but I'm very worried about all our friendships b/c I can't tell you how many times I've seen friendships go up in flames b/c a bunch of them decided to live together. I mean, sometimes they work...But that just seems rare. It's like, once money and living space is put into the equation, an atomic bomb drops.

They're college age, undergraduates specifically. One just graduated [crimminal justice], another dropped out, and the other two are still in the process of getting their degree's. They're pretty young. They all must pay for the apartment by their own means.

I'm concerned because the graduate and the drop-out have no idea what they are doing. Neither of them have jobs lined up. I don't think either of them have made a serious effort to decide on what they want to do with themselves. Neither of them HAVE to live in this apartment. They both have the option to stay home and save some money.
I'm not sure about the financial situation of the other two girls, but I know one is on loans for her entire education, so this isn't a big deal for her since she'd have to pay for an apartment up there anyway.

This house isn't inexpensive. It costs somewhere around 700 bucks a person. I'm pretty sure that whatever jobs these girls get, all their money will be going to living in this house they're leasing....Especially the uneducated drop-out and the crimminal justice graduate [she'll likely end up with a thankless entry level government job that probably won't pay her much for a very long time...Hopefully she can get full time] I'm also pretty sure that these girls don't have much money to fall back on...Meaning that if one of them crashes their car on one of our many highways, they're gonna be in big trouble money-wise.

Aside from them swinging the cost of the house, I'm worried that their friendships will weaken. One has a real *** of a boyfriend that everyone has to tolerate [although he doesn't live nearby], the other is prone to being fussy and sometimes gets hung up over little things with one of the other girls, the other has issues with anxiety and sometimes doesn't speak up enough, blababla....There are just things that I could see going wrong that I don't think anyone has thought of. Like said, I know I really can't say anything, but I would like to somehow get it in their heads that they gotta get their %#@&#! together if they're gonna do this....Otherwise, we may not have a good group of friends anymore. </font>