Student Flat
One of my favourite past times is thinking back to uni days when I was living in share houses with a big bunch of people from different walks of life. Generally, they were artists and generally they loved to party.
The trick was to have the cheapest possible accommodation, so you could spend more money on the weekend. At one point I was living with six other people in a four bedroom house and paying 30 bucks. I had so much money spare each weekend to see bands that I loved and to eat and drink as much as I could.
Over time however, what I grew to understand was that living with this number of people in apartment rentals took up a lot of time. Just think coming home and always there always being at least two other people there. Just running over what you did in the day with all of your housemates at separate intervals takes over a couple hours! Then think about the cleaning. Cleaning roster? Never! You wouldn’t be so retentive to suggest such organization. As an outcome you find that it takes just as long asking someone to clean the bathroom than just doing it yourself.
One boy who I lived with for a little over a year really didn’t understand the concept of regular cleaning. My other housemate and I began closing his door every morning because the smell of his room would waft through the rest of the house. Then, months later we jointly decided to brave ‘the big clean’- going in with vaccume and bleech to get rid of that smell! It took us 3 hours and we found a rather deteriorated dead rat under his bed.
After three years of continuous housemate juggling, I felt like I needed to create a life outside of the home. I finished uni and moved to a small flat with one other person. Since then, I have stuck to just living with one other in apartment rentals.
Flatmates are a huge amount of fun, just know that if it’s going to be over 2 to share with, you are investing your future life in the house.