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Duchess Tapioca:
The first place I ever lived was pretty crummy, I had a room that was about 6'x10' with paper thin walls and my roommate called her boyfriend in africa every night from about 9 pm to 4pm every night, loudly and in Swahili. She piled all the dishes in the sink and just washed one if she needed to cook something, but she would steal my dishes if they were available. I had to keep them in my room or in the freezer. We had a terrible ant problem, there was a writhing mass of a nest in the light socket above the door, which didn't work. The door didn't lock. (not that it would keep out the ants. If you were eating dinner and you set your cup down for ten minutes, it was covered in ants.) The apartment manager died of a heart attack. The owner who lived downstairs was really grumpy and moved to another island, which was bad because the drain clogged with all my roommate's weird hair products and we couldn't get to the pipes. The guy who lived there before me died of aids, I'm pretty sure the place was haunted. There was this weird toilet in a closet that was supposed to be a second bathroom, and my landlord kept calling and reminding us not to store anything in there because it's a bathroom. It wasn't. A mouse kept chewing a hole in my wall while I was trying to sleep. It was really loud. It ate my tupperware.

Anyways, I was complaining loudly to my boyfriend on the phone about how terrible my roommate is at washing dishes, and I didn't know she was home, but she really was and then I felt very bad but all the dishes got washed.

The moral of the story is you might be happier if you don't get the cheapest place you can find, and work something out with your roommate where you establish standards of everything being clean in a nice non-awkward and passive-aggressive way. I think it's easier if you're living with someone you're dating, because you can talk to them easier, but I lived with my boyfriend and I ended up doing almost all the washing up and cleaning and chores unless I specifically asked him to help, and now we're not seeing each other and I have my very own house with no ants at all.

Welu:
Got a delightful Christmas present today that will help muchly with moving out. Very excited now even though I can't do anything for six months at least.


Duchess, that's some story. Not sure how I'd handle it but I guess when you're living there, you have to, to an extent. Did you live in that place or with that person long?

Duchess Tapioca:
For a year, and then I moved in with a Chinese family for six months and then to a dorm room with three other people that was supposed to be for two people and had two twin beds. One of them played warcraft all night and was really in to the gym and the roids and the protein powder so he was pretty testy and another talked about the show "Friends" most of the day and got really pissed if anyone said anything bad about Jennifer Aniston ever. Also someone kept putting a bag of tropical fish in the shared freezer. It was quite disturbing.  Before that I lived with lots of gay men and some drunk chicks. They had sex in showers a lot and liked to use the microwave to heat up hair wax. It was a thing. Fires occurred. I had forgotten why I was so picky about roommates until just now.

Barmymoo:
Dude that does not sound like picky! Or did the pickiness come afterwards?

One of my biggest ambitions is to never have to live with strangers again. I spent five weeks lodging in a room in a house with a teenage son and another student lodger, and although it was actually pretty nice, it just showed me that even in good circumstances I don't like not having my own place. I'd be prepared to live in a tiny tiny studio flat and never have any heating and have to scrub the place from top to bottom with bleach before moving in, to avoid having to pay a bit less to share a nicer place. I guess I'm not a people person.

I've been looking into my options when I graduate from here and go on to my next uni. It seems like if I'm careful with money, and I get the funding I am expecting to get, I will be able to rent a studio flat. Cannot wait.

Zingoleb:
I wanna live alone, too. I get anxious around people if I have to be around them a lot, even if I like them, to the point where I end up avoiding eating or showering because I don't want to end up running into someone else on the way. Yes, that is very problematic.

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