Anyone ever house shared before?
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Depends on your luck ,I shared with about 6 in a large house ,it was great but just before I moved out some new people thought it was ok to bring 1/2 the pub back most nights .
I then bought my own house and had 2 lodgers but did not like that its sooo different when its yours .
I now live happy on my own
I then bought my own house and had 2 lodgers but did not like that its sooo different when its yours .
I now live happy on my own
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[TW]Fox;11885688 said:
Some dam good advice there...
I may go and have a look at the man with dog house. Could be alright.
Ideally I would like to find my own little studio flat (quite like the idea of living on my bill)...but im struggling to find ones that are any good in the Surbition area ....
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I'd definitely advice against living with people you work with. Trust me on this, best friends fall apart when they have to see each other at work and at home all the time.
House rules is a difficult thing to sort out, since it completely depends on the people you live with. It doesn't matter how firm you are about it, in the end of the day - slops will remain slops. Worst kind would be like my old flatmate who picks up clean dishes to use and leave them in the sink after - so you can't use the sink, and you have no clean dishes when you go cooking.
It got so bad that I ended up always removing his stuff from the sink when I need to use it, pile them on the side and keep a clean set of dishes in my own room.
It doesn't really stop the slops from being slops - they won't magically clean up all their dishes, but at least you don't have to wash up after them only to find yourself stranded when it comes to cooking.
I've even done psychological battles with flatmates like these before using my visiting friends. I let my friends comment on how nice the house is and how much of a shame it is that it's been destroyed by the mess. Didn't change a thing. Of course came moving out day landlord confiscated all the deposits when the flatmate failed to clean the house up.
Anyway - bad housemates will lead to bitterness - I certainly am about some of my past ones, and you certainly don't want that to be your friends / colleagues!
House rules is a difficult thing to sort out, since it completely depends on the people you live with. It doesn't matter how firm you are about it, in the end of the day - slops will remain slops. Worst kind would be like my old flatmate who picks up clean dishes to use and leave them in the sink after - so you can't use the sink, and you have no clean dishes when you go cooking.
It got so bad that I ended up always removing his stuff from the sink when I need to use it, pile them on the side and keep a clean set of dishes in my own room.
It doesn't really stop the slops from being slops - they won't magically clean up all their dishes, but at least you don't have to wash up after them only to find yourself stranded when it comes to cooking.
I've even done psychological battles with flatmates like these before using my visiting friends. I let my friends comment on how nice the house is and how much of a shame it is that it's been destroyed by the mess. Didn't change a thing. Of course came moving out day landlord confiscated all the deposits when the flatmate failed to clean the house up.
Anyway - bad housemates will lead to bitterness - I certainly am about some of my past ones, and you certainly don't want that to be your friends / colleagues!
Don't live with students unless you are one.
Don't live with a person who actually owns the house (i.e. lodge).
Those are deffo no-***, but all else is down to luck. Except that generally it is better to share with no more than two others. More than that and the dreaded "one person never buys the milk" problem is going to get serious.
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Don't live with a person who actually owns the house (i.e. lodge).
Those are deffo no-***, but all else is down to luck. Except that generally it is better to share with no more than two others. More than that and the dreaded "one person never buys the milk" problem is going to get serious.
M
Around here the live in landlords charge absolutely extortionate amounts, £400 a month for a room. It can vary from a 8 bed mansion with a private acre to a terraced house where the white goods are older than I am. Anyone else noticed that? :/
£400 will still only get you a damp box, but it’s better than the sex offender land lord.
I'll echo no students either, bloody students.
£400 will still only get you a damp box, but it’s better than the sex offender land lord.
I'll echo no students either, bloody students.
House-sharing with similar-minded professionals in London is bloody brilliant in my experience.
You don't have problems with 'whose milk', cos everyone has plenty of money, we do communal shops for basics and usually cook & eat together (4 of us), but if one misses out a meal here and there it's no biggie. Ready-made social life, loads of gadgets and good kit knocking round the house - pleasure really. Don't have rotas or rubbish like that, stuff just gets done because people like living in a nice place rather than a budget student craphole..
Would just re-iterate, don't live with students if you're working, and would be minded to avoid living with a house-owner cos I imagine they could get a bit tetchy if you break stuff accidentally
Most important thing though is to communicate - if someone isn't pulling their weight, past Uni they're in their bloody twenties so should be able to take a word in their ear and change their ways!
You don't have problems with 'whose milk', cos everyone has plenty of money, we do communal shops for basics and usually cook & eat together (4 of us), but if one misses out a meal here and there it's no biggie. Ready-made social life, loads of gadgets and good kit knocking round the house - pleasure really. Don't have rotas or rubbish like that, stuff just gets done because people like living in a nice place rather than a budget student craphole..
Would just re-iterate, don't live with students if you're working, and would be minded to avoid living with a house-owner cos I imagine they could get a bit tetchy if you break stuff accidentally
Most important thing though is to communicate - if someone isn't pulling their weight, past Uni they're in their bloody twenties so should be able to take a word in their ear and change their ways!
Sorry to go off topic, but soooooo many of the Clifton lot posting in this thread live round the corner from me. Channings is at the end of my road (almost) and I can walk to Clifton down shops from where I am.
We should all randomly meet up in the middle!
We should all randomly meet up in the middle!
Sorry to go off topic, but soooooo many of the Clifton lot posting in this thread live round the corner from me. Channings is at the end of my road (almost) and I can walk to Clifton down shops from where I am.
We should all randomly meet up in the middle!
This is not a dating / 3some arranging service Knip!
Behave, I was just on about some sort of mini forum meet thankyou
Besides if theyre students, theyre all faaaaaaar too young for me!
Behave, I was just on about some sort of mini forum meet thankyou
Besides if theyre students, theyre all faaaaaaar too young for me!
haha yeh but MILF's are always after the young ones
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^ Absolute truthmy 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.
Hope that gives you something to look forward too
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Even if your on placment students will annoy you. I lived in whiteladies road a few years ago just up the road from Clifton down station
Students coming in at 3 were annoying but they guy in the room next door getting up at 5am EVERYDAY to pray was far more of a frustration. Its not only students whose lifestyle/habits will get to you.
The collective responsiblity bit is a pain aswell. People who live with others assume that the cleaning etc will be done by someone, just not themselves.
Students coming in at 3 were annoying but they guy in the room next door getting up at 5am EVERYDAY to pray was far more of a frustration. Its not only students whose lifestyle/habits will get to you.
The collective responsiblity bit is a pain aswell. People who live with others assume that the cleaning etc will be done by someone, just not themselves.