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If it's not one thing its a mother f*cking other

  
 
Bear
12:43 / 03.05.02
Shit fire and save matches - whenever life seem to be going good for me a spanner is chucked in for good measure, just moved into a new flat, a very nice flat. But my flatmate has decided he's leaving London in 5 months. Which means I'll either have to find a new flatmate or move back to Scotland (oh joy)....

I'm guessing a few people here have found new flatmates, whats that like? I'd feel a bit weird with someone I'd never met moving in with me.

Sorry for treating Barbelith like my mother, but you people are the most knowledgeable (excuse me) people I nose
 
 
w1rebaby
13:05 / 03.05.02
it's not too hard, though I advise being exceptionally careful and picky about who you get moving in with you, as my scientific survey has concluded that 98% of those looking for shared accommodation in London belong to at least one of the following categories

- thieves
- smelly
- will leave in the middle of the night without paying rent
- shit music taste + huge stereo
- never do the washing-up
- fearsome drug habit
- annoying laugh + no SOH
- just fucking strange and disturbing
 
 
bitchiekittie
13:23 / 03.05.02
you didnt include "will forget to mention that he has 10 children, who will decend over the apartment with a loud and messy vengance"
 
 
w1rebaby
13:51 / 03.05.02
It only takes one child to occupy the bathroom for the whole morning. And if they're not yours, you can't shout at them, well, you can but they pay no attention.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
21:01 / 03.05.02
my advice - start looking well in advance. give yourself breathing space. and as long as they don't hide cutlery, you're onto a winner.
 
 
that
05:01 / 06.05.02
Um. I might be looking to move within a few months... not that you've met me, either, but I think I only fulfil one of fridgemagnet's criteria for the worst flatmate ever (i.e. I could be percieved as 'fucking strange and disturbing', sometimes). At risk of being unbecomingly forward, what sort of rent would your prospective flatmate be looking at?
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
22:55 / 06.05.02
it's not too hard, though I advise being exceptionally careful and picky about who you get moving in with you, as my scientific survey has concluded that 98% of those looking for shared accommodation in London belong to at least one of the following categories

- thieves
- smelly
- will leave in the middle of the night without paying rent
- shit music taste + huge stereo
- never do the washing-up
- fearsome drug habit
- annoying laugh + no SOH
- just fucking strange and disturbing

Unless it's someone you know really well, you still won't be able to pick up on most of their dirtiest habits unless they go through a sort of trial peroid.

But it's not all bad. I've had roomates that I had never met before that fell into several of those categories, and I myself fit into a couple. We all got along okay.
 
 
Bear
08:02 / 07.05.02
Thanx people...

SFD I'm actually allowed to use the cutlery now

The rent for this place is just under £500 a month, there's a few months yet before he's leaving - to be honest I've been thinking about it over the weekend and I'll probably end up going back to Scotland...

Once I know what the fucks going on in my life I'll post more, head all messed up - must have been the Cannabis march
 
 
w1rebaby
10:02 / 07.05.02
"fucking strange and disturbing" was my catch-all category to cover people who, say, disappear into their room for months and you find they've made themselves a little cocoon out of chewed-up paper
 
 
angel
11:30 / 07.05.02
That said, I found my very wonderful flat mates through Loot. I didn't know any of them before I moved in, but one of them has become one of my closest friends. The household has been together for 3 years now and still is not showing any signs of breaking up/moving on.

We tend to go in cycles of loving everyone, wanting to kill each other for leaving the butter out of the fridge/not doing the washing up. But generally everyone is pretty tolerant.

I realise I just got lucky, but the chances of nutcases to OK people should be pretty even really. Or maybe I am just being polyanna like today.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:09 / 07.05.02
fridgemagnet: You left out "Alcoholic, with a history of violent behaviour, no moral compass whatever and a hugely rich aristocratic family with the local police in their pockets so when you finally chuck her out you get death threats from their psycho brother and there's buggerall you can do about it".
 
 
rizla mission
16:17 / 07.05.02
"fucking strange and disturbing" was my catch-all category to cover people who, say, disappear into their room for months and you find they've made themselves a little cocoon out of chewed-up paper

now I think it would be really cool to have a flatmate who did that.

As long as they didn't climb down chimneys and eat peaople's livers like in that episode of the X files..

That could be cool too though, so long as they didn't get you involved.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
17:47 / 07.05.02
my housemate [yes, that's *house* *mate*, not flat mates (x whatever). one other person. in a house. meaning plenty of s p a c e] is really nice. considerate. goes all giggly when i even talk about the cats, never mind when i cuddle all three at once. the rent is cheap. i am waiting for something to go terribly wrong - although the way she was jaw droppingly surprised that the woman who was over the other day went out with *me* could be a pointer of bad things to come.
 
 
bitchiekittie
18:14 / 07.05.02
now I think it would be really cool to have a flatmate who did that

...provided they managed to still pay rent, that is. and there were no foul odors eminating from the cocoon
 
  
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