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This question has probably been asked before (haven't they all?) but I figured I'd ask it again. If so, how do you cope? If not, would you want one?

Edit: From the wiki: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roommate)

A roommate is a person with whom one shares a residence who is not a relative or significant other. Synonyms include suitemate, housemate, or flatmate ("flat": the usual term in British English for an apartment). In the UK, the term "roommate" means a person sharing the same bedroom, whereas in the United States, "roommate" and "housemate" are used interchangeably regardless whether a bedroom is shared. This article uses the term "roommate" in the U.S. sense of a person one shares a residence who is not a relative or significant other.

What do you mean by cope?
Do you mean get on with them okay?
Well one of them doesn't make conversation unless he's drunk.
(another thing is he only eats, bread, pot noodles, combination of the two, caffiene drinks, tea and occaisonally some tinned chicken and rice, really wierd guy)
The other's okay, but generally a little dim.
I usually do more of the cleaning and washing up, because my flatmates are pretty lazy.

EDIT:Even so i think it would be better to live with other folks than live on my own, just other folks to talk to and drink/socialise with.

I have three flatmates, but no roomate.

I could never have a roomate for more than a wee while that wasn't a partner of mine.

Unfortunately yes, though the way the housing market is tanking hopefully not for long.

I have three flatmates, but no roomate.What would you consider the difference to be?

I live in a house of five friends. It's pretty awesome.

Nope. I live at home unemployed. :]

No, but I think I should have gotten one. I don't like living alone.

Not anymore. I had a roomate first semester, but he wasn't a good match for me. He is a surfer, I'm a nerd. We had nothing in common aside from being Jewish. When certain habits of mine caused tension, he decided to move out. We still get along fine as floormates, just not roomates.

I will probably get another roomate next semester (I'm alone this semester). I've talked to a friend with whom I share many interests, and we are considering rooming together.

do you mean a roommate as in a flatmate or a roommate as in someone who i actually share a bedroom with?

do you mean a roommate as in a flatmate or a roommate as in someone who i actually share a bedroom with?
Around here we don't make that distinction. I think because it's extremely rare that someone shares their room unless they also 'get busy.'

I have three roommates (flatmates to you who make the distinction), and I live in the living room with a shower curtain and very large TV as the only elements that give me a modicum of privacy. It's a pain in the ass sometimes when I'm not working and my roommates get a little cabin fever in their rooms and start futzing around in the kitchen, it's hard to be relaxed when there's someone just right there, and you can't have a private discussion (one of them will actually comment on my phone calls). It's not like I can 'claim' the whole bottom floor of the house, so I just have to suck it up. It makes busy getting a little difficult, even solo busy getting. For the most part though, they're hermits so it's not that bad. I had a little trouble with one of them eating my food but I think that's finally subsided. And the fucking whistling...it wouldn't be bad if he was okay at it, but it's tuneless whistling and it's about as irritating as could be. Since we don't run into each other that often sometimes they can be a chat trap-you're in for a long conversation even if you don't want one. Also, being downstairs I get to hear theirs even if I'm not involved.

BUT-the rent is cheap, so until I can afford my own digs, it'll do.

I'm pretty sure we mean the US version of roommate (one who you share a dwelling with), not the literal one who you share a room with.

I have 3.5 roomies (three other ladies and small child), and it's easy to cope because I keep to myself a lot or am running around out of the apartment a lot. Next year, I'll probably have 2 roommates.

It's easier when you're in a fraternity with your roommates (as is the case with two of mine this year, and one of mine for sure next year) because then there are already some guidelines for how to resolve things. (At least there are in my case.)

What would you consider the difference to be?
My flatmates share my flat with me, but we all have seperate rooms.

I assumed you were talking in the sense of sharing a room with somebody who wasn't your partner.

He is a surfer, I'm a nerd.
lol

being English its kind of mandatory however currently I live at home like a good boi

however I'm looking for a place that won't cots my soul (and a job :()

He is a surfer, I'm a nerd. We had nothing in common aside from being Jewish.

you could of surfed the Internet together :)

edit: as for question 2 I have had roommates and usually I got along fine just by watching porn together

I do not have one right now, within the next two months I will have three, and come August, I will have merely two.

I like roommates, I get along with people, and in person, I'm quite amiable.

We have one moving out and are goign to talk to a potential new one.

The one moving out is depressed and self-sabotaging and now owes us money for being unemployed for too long. He's leaving collateral and signing a promissory note though. He's moving back with his mother who is going to get him a job where she works and is going to make him pay us back first and foremost.

The one we are going to talk to is a friend of a friend. She is hot and rides a crotch-rocket. She has a steady job and is an artist. Apparently she is good people but she has a cat so that will be three cats in our home. We'll see if we want to go that direction, but we need money so it's more likely a yes than a no.

I have 3 roommates. Two share one bedroom, and myself and another guy shares another bedroom, or rather sort of shares a bedroom. He is very smelly, and he likes to touch himself while I am in the room, so I don't sleep in my own bed anymore. Instead I sleep on one of the two couches in the living room. The other two guys aren't that bad, except for the fact that they are from Northern Illinois and say pop, instead of soda.

This question has probably been asked before (haven't they all?) but I figured I'd ask it again. If so, how do you cope? If not, would you want one?
One flatmate, no roommate. Never had a roommate, even while at UVA for half a year. Don't want one, either. I value my privacy.

I rent a room, but I have to share the toilet, shower and kitchen with people I almost never see. I don't know if this qualifies as roommates, but I don't think I want any.

yes family members. but I dont like them. I will be at college in three years though, then my mom wont search my room and my dad wont be pissed at me cuz I swear
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i have three flatmates, i don't know them at all even though i've lived with them nearly 6 months. they're very dull so i hate getting into conversations with them and they're irritating so the only conversations i want to have with them are negative anyway. my room is a place to crash when i'm not working or out drinking or whatever. it sucks really, and it's not so cheap either but i really want my own place and i can't be bothered going through the process of moving again and meeting new flatmates so until i can afford a place of my own i may as well stay here.

i've had flatmates ever since i moved out of university halls and they've all been good until now.

I live in a flat on campus with 9 other people. I consider them my second family. There's:

Me - The Journalism student, slightly geeky one.

Sports Science guy - Love his tennis and Arsenal. Current Pro Evo champion within the flat. I will win that title!

Rugby Player guy - Second oldest in the flat. Shaved his head bald for charity and thanks to him our Rugby team won the league. Also works at the campus bar.

Biomedical Science girl - She's great. Can pull many faces so you can never get mad at her.

Film studies girl - Nice girl but quiet. Don't see her much. Also works at the campus bar.

Drama girl - The 24 year old so the oldest in our flat. Works for a well known chocolate company so we get free chocolate! Also the Fairtrade Officer for our uni.

Photography/Psychology girl - always has her camera. Can be a bit silly and has her blond moments but thats why we love her.

Guy we hardly ever see - He moved in 3 days after the rest of us. I don't even know what he studies. Can go upto 3 weeks before we see him again. Right now I haven't seen him for 2 weeks.

Loud Northern Girl - From Sheffield. Always cheery, right legend.

Psychology/Early Childhood Studies girl - Comes from the same area as me so sometimes we have little jokes about our hometown which no one else gets. Good times.


So all in all a great bunch. It'll be sad when we all break up and move into different flats.

No, I don't have a roommate right now. I want one, though -- it would be cheaper.

Yeah. 2 roomates, but we all have our own bedrooms....we share 2 bathrooms, 1 kitche and 1 living room. This is the "apartment" style dorm at my university.

Not yet, but my friend Victoria is going to room with me when we go to University of South Florida this fall. She wants to study nursing and I want to study chemical engineering. We'll also probably have 2 other people in the same one as us, but we're not sure who.

Nö.

I live with my fiance. We get along just fine. ;)

I had roommates all through uni, and never had any problems with any of them. Just lucky, I guess.

I've got an awesome roommate so it really isn't that hard to cope at all.

yes family members. but I dont like them. I will be at college in three years though, then my mom wont search my room and my dad wont be pissed at me cuz I swear
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Does family count as "roommates" when you're in high school?

And get used to the unwarranted searches, bud. That doesn't change in college, they just call it "room inspections". Pray you get a half-decent (or just lazy) RA your first year.

I have three flatmates, but no roomate.

I could never have a roomate for more than a wee while that wasn't a partner of mine.

I had to share a room with a random stranger for the first six weeks of university. Not a good time; the novelty of university, intermittent homesickness and my varicosely complex relationship at that point all combined, along with his Geordie accent, to render the six weeks awful.

I live with seven other guys, we all get on quite well. Two are quite quiet, a different two often go off and do their own thing. But in essence we function well and know how to throw a party :)

My girlfriend moved in about 3 weeks ago. It's been great so far.








(I have to say that - she now has a logon to NS)

Yes, my wife.

I used to have room mates that came from a lot of different walks of life. I typically got along with all of them. (Only had a blow up with one of them)

Currently I got a place all to myself and I figure if I get do get a roommate it will be the lady/gal that I marry otherwise I perfectly content living alone.

Roommates can be a lot of fun and we did throw good parties but there is just something about calling home your own and noboday elses. ;)

Yes, my wife and kids.

Around here we don't make that distinction. I think because it's extremely rare that someone shares their room unless they also 'get busy.'Indeed:

"A roommate is a person with whom one shares a residence who is not a relative or significant other. Synonyms include suitemate, housemate, or flatmate ("flat": the usual term in British English for an apartment). In the UK, the term "roommate" means a person sharing the same bedroom, whereas in the United States, "roommate" and "housemate" are used interchangeably regardless whether a bedroom is shared. This article uses the term "roommate" in the U.S. sense of a person one shares a residence who is not a relative or significant other."

I suppose I should've checked the wiki or said "someone who lives in the same dwelling" instead of roommate, but ah well.

i miss having roommates. we had some great times in shitty student ghetto housing. i don't think i'd want anyone that wasn't also my significant other living where i do now though - but i would definitely be down for it in a bigger place.

Indeed:

"A roommate is a person with whom one shares a residence who is not a relative or significant other. Synonyms include suitemate, housemate, or flatmate ("flat": the usual term in British English for an apartment). In the UK, the term "roommate" means a person sharing the same bedroom, whereas in the United States, "roommate" and "housemate" are used interchangeably regardless whether a bedroom is shared. This article uses the term "roommate" in the U.S. sense of a person one shares a residence who is not a relative or significant other."

I suppose I should've checked the wiki or said "someone who lives in the same dwelling" instead of roommate, but ah well.

We share the UK distinction between roommate & house/flatmate.

This question has probably been asked before (haven't they all?) but I figured I'd ask it again. If so, how do you cope? If not, would you want one?

Edit: From the wiki: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roommate)

How do we cope? Very well, as the wife and I have put up with each other through thick and thin since 1968. :fluffle: And for those of you who don't want to count, that's a year or two that we have been room mates. :p

roommate? I don't even have a room...:(

I has four official flatmates in first year, but it was technically nine because we just kept our doors opened and move between the flats like it was one. Now I share with three flatmates. Two are moving out and I have a queue of candidates wanting to move in due to size/location/frequency of mayhem at my flat.

My girlfriend moved in about 3 weeks ago. It's been great so far.








(I have to say that - she now has a logon to NS)

So far? :rolleyes: Are you expecting it to be not great anytime soon?







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had roommates for the past eight years... it depends on who's with me - i can be a sickeningly nice roommate or a terribly evil one, depending on who my roommate is.

One of my best friends is a former roommate. We shared an apartment for years before I got married. We're still good friends.

The rest of my former roommates.... well, they didn't last long. :)

One of my best friends is a former roommate. We shared an apartment for years before I got married. We're still good friends.

The rest of my former roommates.... well, they didn't last long. :)

Thank God bad roommates usually make for great dinners.

I mean what?

I have three roommates.

One I've lived with since freshman year when we randomly got assigned together. The other two are friends we've picked up along the way.

Only one really bad roommate who I just ignored and he eventually had a breakdown and moved to South Carolina.

One of my roommates will be moving out come September, and I'm pretty happy about that...he doesn't clean anything and smells pretty bad, and is the stereotype of "stoner". I've taken to throwing his garbage infront of his door and writing "clean your shit" in his dirty pots and pans with assorted condiments

I haven't had a roommate since I was a freshman in college.

Yeah, in the "British" sense; somebody I literally share a room with. In halls at uni. She's way cool :)