Sunday 17 February 2019

Pros and cons of living in a shared house

Hi All,

Long time no see,

I thought I'd talk about this today because I've been living in a shared house for about a year and half now (the horror I now) and I can't bring myself to move out so I guess here are the reasons why I won't move out but spend a large amount of time looking at potential places I could move to.

So my shared house is 8 people 2 bathrooms, 2 en suites (ones mine thank god) 1 kitchen and that's it notice the no living room we'll come back to this later...

I've picked the top two of each (mainly because other wise I'll go off on a rant)

PROS

1. So very cheap

Why else would you even start looking at a shared house ? Mine is so cheap (£281 pcm) its essentially ruined any other place for me ever. I do however live in the not so glamorous Halifax so that's why its super duper cheap. But nerveless by living in a shared house you easily can save 200 month compared to rents plus nearly every shared house I looked at has bills included so that s another huge benefit (now that I'm thinking about it this convenience one is actually a massive part of the reason I haven't moved)

2. Safety/ Security

This may make me sound like a bit of wet wipe but I find it massively reassuring that I live in a house with so many people, granted I don't know everyone name (that's right I'm talking to you, the four strangers I've lived with) but I know three that will always give me a hand or help be that either some anti freeze when I was very late to work (what a surprise) or a sterilising tablet when I managed to grow my own ecosystem in a mug. I find it reassuring that if the fire alarm goes off or we get broken into least I won't have to deal with it alone. I think if I'd moved here into an apartment by myself I would have been more scared and cautious in doing things.

CONS

1. Random people

Now I know I was just gushing about how I like the people but lets also draw attention to the fact that out of 7 others I only know three names ... that's a pretty bad name exchange rate. I also didn't love the guy (he's moved out not died) who liked to burn bacon in the kitchen at 5 in the morning and chill out in just a towel... most of the time after he engaged in some very loud night time activities with his lady friends if you know what I mean (am I a 90 year old women) so there is that. I think living with anyone is hard and weird but when its seven randomers it makes it so much harder.

Also on this topic one time I took it upon myself to clean out the freezer and found a very suspicious sample of something ....

2. Its not your space

I have a tiny bedroom and while I do like having the en suite I would love a living room so there was just somewhere else to go, I normally end up eating my tea on the floor in front of my laptop (which is the saddest thing ever) I would love to do cooking and baking but I only have 1 cupboard so I can't have that much stuff in the kitchen never mind the fact that for some reason slotted spoons are like gold dust everyone seems to buy and re- buy and yet there is never any (there is me pouring out the water from the poached eggs again!)

So there we have it some pros and cons