Living Alone Good or Bad?

It took a while to adjust,,,but when you get past that,,,there is nothing better...

i lived alone for like 6 months after my first roomate moved in with his brother in college. we got along great, he was really neat and clean and responsible and everything, but he decided to buy a house with his brother or something. living alone was the best ever but i do pretty well with entertaining myself. its also nice being the one that controls everything in the house. the lay out and arrangement, the furniture, you know all the dishes are yours, you only have to clean up after yourself, you can have the temperature at whatever you want and you can basically just do whatever you want. then a new guy that moved in was a slob, stole my food, never bathed, etc. it was a nightmare, but thankfully it only lasted like 4 months. then i lived with 3 of my good friends from high school and it was a lot of ups and downs, but mostly ups and i would probably do it again, because you know you can get in a fight with the person and be cool the next day. right now at age 22 i think i am at the point in my life where i want to move away from the slobness and have nice things and a nice living environment, but one of my roomates who is two years older than me still chooses to live like a slob and i can't stand it. i'm getting a place in june with just me, my girlfriend that i currently live with and our dog and its going to be awesome.

I always hated living alone... I would always want to live with a gf or atleast a roommate for the longest time... Though recently I've been coming around to the other side and can see why people would want to live alone... I can sit at the apartment, in the buff, smoking weed, drinking alcohol, listening to music, and play the air guitar.

Dont know what the hell was wrong with me before.

i live in a dorm but that doesnt really count since you have no freedom. but the dorm gets lonely and its easy to get cabin fever at times. id love having my own place.

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Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud

I knew what you were talking about but I have to warn ya. NO INSULT INTENDED but your just turning 18.....I'm 44 and one of my best friends I've known since we were 5. Anytime.......anywhere, but I'd be DAMNED if I'd live with the dude. Two roosters in the same coop don't work, believe me.

These TV shows that more/ less promote this are a JOKE. For instance, "Friends"........in real life do ya think that a Chandler would support a Joey like the show...hell no! It would be; "Get out mooch or get a real job!".

When ya notice your groceries are always gone, things missing.....like them last few hits you were saving for after work, bills only getting "half" paid, just cleaned the whole damn place to find it trashed by roomy and a few of the boys......it just gets old and can trash a friendship in a hurry.

Good luck and.......

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

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So true. Don't live with friends if you want to remain friends.

The best time of my life was when I lived alone in a 250 dollar/mo. studio in the ghetto and I now live in a real nice place with my girlfriend.

I live alone and recommend it if you need *any* privacy. I am in college and my circle of friends really really enjoys to get down. I used to live with them and we would have parties galore with some very very heavy drinking. My GPA went down, i was always drunk. Also, when it is 3am and the party is still thumpin, you will love the fact that your house is empty and quiet.

I've lived in 4 apartments, and each one was a different 'classic roommate scenario'

1- i lived with 3 other roommates who were friends
2- i lived with my girlfriend
3- i lived with a total stranger i met on craigslist (disaster)
4- i live alone in a studio apt (currently)

Hands down alone is the way to go. You know the little annoyances roommates bring? Owing you money, being overly clean/not clean enough, bitching at you for petty shit, eating your food etc.. imagine having to deal with literally none of
those things. Its truly sublime to live alone if you can afford it. I'm a big believer in the importance of accepting being alone, and learning to 'make friends with yourself', because if shit ever goes down, you're all you have to depend on anyway. Living alone is awesome.. i dont think i'd ever live with a roommate again.


cheers:stoned:

Oh god, I live on my own and I always will. I used to live with roomates a few times and I hated it. Sometimes I wanted to kill them, literally. I lived in one basment suite, 2 bedroom, with another fellow. I was working at the time and he was a amatuer thief at the time :p sad, I know, anyways, I'd have to work at 8am, and here they would come back to our place at 2 or 3am, pissed drunk, tripped out on who knows what, making noise and waking me up. By waking me up, they would come in room and wake me up yelling, "have a drink, come on!." One times when I was sleeping, they were smoking weed, and they took a long straw, took a hoot, and blew smoke out the straw that led right to my nose, so I inhaled it. Bastards!

Anyways, for the last few years I've been on my own. I know, it would cheaper living with a few more people, but fuck that shit! If I can get by without roomates, I will, and right now, I am.

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Originally Posted by Nochowderforyou

Oh god, I live on my own and I always will. I used to live with roomates a few times and I hated it. Sometimes I wanted to kill them, literally. I lived in one basment suite, 2 bedroom, with another fellow. I was working at the time and he was a amatuer thief at the time :p sad, I know, anyways, I'd have to work at 8am, and here they would come back to our place at 2 or 3am, pissed drunk, tripped out on who knows what, making noise and waking me up. By waking me up, they would come in room and wake me up yelling, "have a drink, come on!." One times when I was sleeping, they were smoking weed, and they took a long straw, took a hoot, and blew smoke out the straw that led right to my nose, so I inhaled it. Bastards!

Anyways, for the last few years I've been on my own. I know, it would cheaper living with a few more people, but fuck that shit! If I can get by without roomates, I will, and right now, I am.

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Lol, getting stoned while you sleep. That's pretty funny, although shouting at you to havea drink while your trying to sleep is pretty fucked. I would have lost my temper with that kind of annoyance.