Bad to have your friends as roommates?

[bandXtrb]

What experience have you had with roommates? Two other friends and myself want to look for an apartment. Can they get irritating? (still better than living with parents though)

 

[bunker]

I roomed with one of my friends from high school the first year of college. We stopped speaking to each other half way through the second semester.

 

[minendo]

Yes they can get irritating, but who wouldn't? I currently live in an apartment with 3 of my friends. One of the guys I live with was my roommate in the dorms last year. Of course we can all get on each other's nerves, but we are still good friends.

 

[chickendinner]

Room with the smartest of your friends.

 

[Spoooon]

My roommate's girlfriend moved in with a good friend of her's. Their friendship slowly fell apart and now they basically hate each other.

I've lived with my friend from high school for almost 4 years and have had no problems. The only things we argue about are things like politics, religion, and movies.

 

[Alienwho]

I'm going to be rooming with 5 of my friends this fall :Q.

I figure we'll be ok cause we are always making fun of each other or pissing each other off anyways and we never hold anything back.

 

[her209]

I roomed with 2 girl friends (I'm a guy)... It was an interesting experience...

 

[melly]

my sis roomed with her best friend for a year and now they don't speak anymore. my sis roomed with another friend and same thing happened.

 

[pyonir]

i've lived with one friend for more than 4 years. we have our days like anyone else but we are still best friends. the only friend i have ever stopped talking to after living together was a girl.

 

[Rallispec]

i did not know my current roomate before college, but we lived next to eachother our freshman year and have been roomates every year since. He's my best freind here at school and we're living together again next year.


i think the main problem people say about living with freinds come from people who go to college and want to room with highschool freinds. Then they have less of a desire to go out and make new friends and both people end up changing so much and everything falls apart and fighting starts and the freindships get ruined. I've seen this happen before.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

I live with my friend from high school, and we had a few problems the first few months in. It took everything exploding one night and us yelling at each other for an hour to make things right. We got everything out in the open, made some concessions to each other, and have been fine since then.

 

[pyonir]

i agree Ralli. i hated everyone i went to high school with anyway so i didn't room with anyone from there. they were all friends i met in college.

 

[Rallispec]

<< i agree Ralli. i hated everyone i went to high school with anyway so i didn't room with anyone from there. they were all friends i met in college. >>



this is one reason i went to a small private college with only 1200 students. So i knew the chance of knowing somebody from highschool that also goes here would be 0%

 

[shurato]

I live in an apartment with my best friend...he's a filthy slob...his room looks like a tornado ripped through it literally. He doesn't even use bed sheets, he just sleeps on a bare mattress. He never vacuum's and rarely cleans the house. It's been about 7 months now and as a roommate I'd like to wring his neck.

 

[RossMAN]

It can work, and rooming with your friends is better than living with parents.

 

[LordMaul]

<< my sis roomed with her best friend for a year and now they don't speak anymore. my sis roomed with another friend and same thing happened. >>



Wow, you must have one hell of a bitchy sister.

 

[yakko]

I have roomed with three different friends. One was great, another would have been better if it wasn't for him and his girlfriend fighting all the time and the third was just ok.

 

[bmacd]

<< my sis roomed with her best friend for a year and now they don't speak anymore. my sis roomed with another friend and same thing happened. >>



OMFG...i'd swear you were one of my brothers b/c my older sister's been through the same thing. First roommate was a best friend. Contact stopped shortly after. Roomed with a couple more friends...friendship died. Last was an old best friend from middle school. Friendship died after 3 months of rooming together.

DON'T ROOM WITH YOUR FRIENDS!!!!!

-=bmacd=-

 

[rgwalt]

The best roommates I've had were ones I wasn't friends with before moving in, and didn't become "best" friends while living together. Even friends need to take a break from one another from time to time. If you are living with your best friend, you can get on each other's nerves really easily. Personally, I like living alone. I've been living alone for the last 2 years, and I don't plan on ever living with anyone else other than my wife and kids if I get married. I've got a good friend who thinks I'm nuts though... He couldn't imagine living alone. I guess it is different strokes for different folks.

My recommendation would be not to live with a friend. However, if you go pot-luck for a roommate, you do take a risk that you'll end up living with a big jerk.

Ryan

 

[shurato]

Or you could end up with a roommate like in single white female

 

[Nefrodite]

<< I live in an apartment with my best friend...he's a filthy slob...his room looks like a tornado ripped through it literally. He doesn't even use bed sheets, he just sleeps on a bare mattress. He never vacuum's and rarely cleans the house. It's been about 7 months now and as a roommate I'd like to wring his neck. >>




omg, no bedsheets? that must be agains some decency or public health law or something..

 

[dionx]

im currently rooming with some friends from last year. we talk to each other sometimes in the apartment, but not as much to our own set of friends that we each have. its good to have your own set of friends so if something doesnt go right with your roommate, your set of friends is detached from your roommate for the most part and are involved in a very minimal way. i even keep my set of friends in school seperate from my gf. (my gf and i live in different cities 4 days out of the week) i think its better that way. hang out with friends during the 4 days where im up at school, then spend the other 3 days with my gf.

 

[lawaris]

<< I live in an apartment with my best friend...he's a filthy slob...his room looks like a tornado ripped through it literally. He doesn't even use bed sheets, he just sleeps on a bare mattress. He never vacuum's and rarely cleans the house. It's been about 7 months now and as a roommate I'd like to wring his neck. >>



it's his room buddy ...he can do what he wants ....at least my american roomate told me the same ... he even used to fall sometimes when he got up half-asleep in the morn. : there waere too many things on the floor !

 

[killface]

I live in a house with 3 very good friends I've had since high-school (I'm 24 now). It's been almost a year and it's worked out great so far. In fact, it's fun as all hell.
There have only been a few minor problems, which would have turned into major problems if we weren't friends and honest with each other.

 

[MichaelD]

Roommates suck @ss, period. I've lived w/more male roommates/housemates than I can count. They were either slobs, financially irresponsible, never slept or slept all the time. The list could go on, but for brevity's sake, I'll cut it off there.

Friends make bad roommates and new roommates usually turn into friends...so it's a viscious circle that you can't escape.

If you share the same circle of friends, it's even worse. I'd rather work two jobs (which I do) and have my OWN place than room w/another male.

Eventually, I'd like to cohabitate again. But not w/my current GF, who I can't decide if I want to keep around or not. But that's a diff story.