Anyone ever house shared before?

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Im moving to London and house sharing is something ill probably have to do...Something I should mension aswell, ill be on my years work experiance placement. Not going to any physical University down there...

Ive never done it before. Im thinking its gonna be really AWKWARD!! being in someone elses house.

Anyone shed any light on what house sharing is like? AWKWARD!!? Great?

Ive got afew differant options atm (all of the houses seem to be very nice and all around the same price monthly)

Living with students / young professials (three other people)
Living with older professionals (three other people, One who ill be working with in my new job)
Living with some guy and his dog...

Any advice would be great :)

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Shared with students when I was a student, now sharing with professionals.

House I'm in now is a bit annoying. One person has his base up on music really loud a quick shout and he turns it down. But there's two ***** that don't clean the kitchen. When I mean don't clean they just chuck there plates on the side, wont empty the bin although they will keep filling it untill it overflows. We had a go at them the other week and it stayed clean for a while but has gone back to the bad days.

Despite this my next house will almost certainly be randoms, although I'm hopping to find something a bit smaller hopefully 3-4 bedroom.

The social aspect is great, it all depends on what house mates you get though and at the end of the day most contracts are only 6 months in shared places.
 
I can imagine living with students might be frustrating if you are a kitchen nazi. On the other hand, it could open a wonderful world of social chocolate balls, filled with a centres of creamy house party action and potential datage.

A bit like poppets really.
 
Nitefly said:
I can imagine living with students might be frustrating if you are a kitchen nazi. On the other hand, it could open a wonderful world of social chocolate balls, filled with a centres of creamy house party action and potential datage.

A bit like poppets really.
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That was the most delicious post ever...
 
my advice is.....unless your sharing a house with people you know well or are at least decent people, which you will not know until after signing the contract you WILL almost definitely be sharing a house with the most unbearably slobish, annoying, childish, filthy, disgusting, loud, and unbearably annoying imbeciles you just have to live with it unfortunately.

I managed to meet about five people out of the 30 people I lived with in my uni career that were worth talking to.

I still talk to those guys and theyre all good mates but the others................................i'd sooner burn.

Hope that gives you something to look forward too :D
 
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My mate is looking for 1 more housemate in a hilariously large and well kitted out house (11 bedrooms, pool/games room and humongous kitchen. The whole thing has basically just been rebuilt.) He's Chris1712 off here. Mostly students though and as you said, you're looking for something smaller :p

Young girls though... :D
 
Something I should mension aswell, ill be on my works experiance placement. Not going to any physical University down there...

Dont know if that makes any differance to anything really :p
 
Zefan said:
Young girls though... :D
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Sign me up :D, unfortunately with the shifts I do, there's no way I could live with students.

It's a shame some of my mates had to move into a house this weekend. Which would have been grate. But can't afford two lots of rent till September.
 
i can imagine that living in someone elses house like a lodger would be akward.
living in a house with other professionals is not akward, as you are all sharing someone elses house. much easier to do your own thing.
 
Zefan said:
My mate is looking for 1 more housemate in a hilariously large and well kitted out house (11 bedrooms, pool/games room and humongous kitchen. The whole thing has basically just been rebuilt.) He's Chris1712 off here. Mostly students though and as you said, you're looking for something smaller :p

Young girls though... :D
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That sounds like the worst house ever.

If I have learnt anything, the smaller the number of people in your house, the better it is. Otherwise you form 'alliances' and it all gets a bit 'big brother'...

Thats from living on a 50 person corridor, a house of 8 and a house of 5. House of four next year, woo!
 
Nitefly said:
If I have learnt anything, the smaller the number of people in your house, the better it is. Otherwise you form 'alliances' and it all gets a bit 'big brother'...

Thats from living on a 50 person corridor, a house of 8 and a house of 5. House of four next year, woo!
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I find it fascinating, much like the social interactions on OcUK. Weirdly I also have experience of living with about 60 people per floor in open plan halls, 2 different groups of 8 people in one house and moving into a 5 person house in... 2 weeks.
 
Kreeeee said:
I find it fascinating, much like the social interactions on OcUK. Weirdly I also have experience of living with about 60 people per floor in open plan halls, 2 different groups of 8 people in one house and moving into a 5 person house in... 2 weeks.
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I'm living oposite channings (near the union) next year. Best. Location. Ever.

Eye watering price!
 
Word of advice from a mate of mine - do NOT stay with students if you are not a student.

Becuase after the 50th time, them staggering home drunk making lots of noise at 4am gets REALLY grating when you've got to be up for work at 8am but they dont have a lecture until 2pm.
 
Kreeeee said:
Forgot you were in Bristol. I'll be living literally across the road from sainsbury's Clifton Down.
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Ooo, that is good. 'Big Sainsburies' is a godsend... can't quite get my head around the new Summerfield between that and the Tesco...

Sorry, I'll stop dragging this offtopic now :)
 
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