How many peoples do you live with? And Who Are They?

varies depending on who is in the country/area. normally just me and my brother, but i tend to stay over with SO most nights. OTOH when maximum crowd are at home it holds me, three brothers, my niece and my dad (being the family home).

At the moment I live with two other folks. They are friends of friends, and both wonderful people, but I am bent upon having my own place before the month's end. I'm old and have never had my own conforesaken place before...

Right now, my house has one less person in it:Me :(

i live alone its the best - also i work at home so it'd probably be pretty annoying to live w/me - lol here i am

living alone and working from home sounds like the best thing ever. i envy.

yeah, you're like god.

I ask cos I have just moved in to beautiful new house with three less beautiful new people. One is girl and somewhat nuts with the tendency to bring "substances" into the house and encourage others to partake of them. I'm fine with that but would strongly like to ban all be-dreadlocked dudes from the house. She is also not calm and I really need calm.

Sometimes I wonder if I'd reall like to live alone sine I do need my own space but then I think I don't need that much space and don't enjoy my own company that much.

Nick I think the question in your situation is money. Living alone roxors but can you even think about affording it?

couldn't afford to live alone yet, but am buying two houses in next six months to rent out. this time five years.....

So, is she just bringing in pot or is she bringing in coke and other potentially problematic stuff?

It's just me and my guy (and the animals) and that's perfect. The only thing I might want to add in the future is a bebe.

those little cheeses?

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Oh it's not something I am practically considering. There's no way I'm gonna be able to afford it any time in the forseeable future. But I was just wondering if, at whatever point in the future I might be able to afford, i would even then choose to do so.

yah its good but maybe not all that yr imagining. for instance how to do work instead of post to ilx all day and realizing you havent left yr house in three days.

hard to say- i think living with someone that you get on well with >>>>>> than living alone, but finding that person/people >>>>>>> tougher than you'd think.

and expense, obviously.

"yah its good but maybe not all that yr imagining. for instance how to do work instead of post to ilx all day and realizing you havent left yr house in three days"

apart from staying at home, do you imagine this makes you any different to the majority of ILX?

There's me, one husband, two daughters, one grown-up grumpy cat, two ridiculously playful kittens, two guinea pigs, six chickens and a cockatiel (but they're in the garden, so probably don't count for the purposes of this survey). No dog any more, because Chester died a couple of weeks ago :(

those little cheeses?

mmmm, cheese

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do all your work at home, but then take regulated breaks at coffeshop for fun ilx posting. and mandate twice or thrice-weekly bar/club visits or something

i have this ridiculously romanticised idea of working from home, involving high spec computer co-existing in room with large couch, roaring fire and a good bookshelf.

hmm, to the ikea thread methinks.

i just remember that when i worked at a place there was usually a guy there that made me do work. as for the coffee shop idea, that is so far beyond my powers of self-control.

I lack the self-discipline to work at home. This makes me sad.

also ive had some sweet coworkers in the past who i enjoyed

im sure the compulsive ilx-ing has something to do w/the lack of human interaction - i was always accused of being "too chatty" at my previous jobs.

I live with one person. They sculpt salt in their spare time.

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ha, yeah. I would end up skipping the coffeeshop, and going to a pub w/wifi access, and after wasting productivity time there, would wander into a bookshop for a few hours. i have such a lack of self-discipline as to approach some cosmic scale of things

"too chatty" is better than "too grope-y"

yah its pretty impossible for me to work in public places - cant stop looking @/listening to all the people

"just the right amount of grope-y"

damn starbucks and their "no groping the employees" policy...when someone calls me by my first name, I figure that certain lines have been crossed

yah its pretty impossible for me to work in public places - cant stop looking @/listening to/groping all the people

hiyo! shit...

if i'm overcaffeinated, sometimes my normal "lovebomb 'em" routine morphs into fondling before I even realize what I'm doing. such are the perils of being a celibate moonie recruiter in today's loose-morals, anything-goes cyber-cafe culture

From a practical point of view I should really just bite the bullet and move in with my mother for and save, in one foul(fowl?) swoop £500 per month. This is what I'm doing in the week when I'm working in London anyway and planning on doing should a real permanent job come along.

But doing this means literally having no space to myself and nowhere to escape to. The place is a shoebox with a spare room with no space for anything more than a bed in it. I couldn't be a tenant and live a separate life (I acknowledge that this is a really selfish thing to want considering how supportive my family are of me) and I'm too used to living independently to put up with anything else.

Having been working here for wo days I'm really looking forward to going back to Brighton and my own room, bed, bread etc.

I live on my own. I almost afford it. Recently though things have started breaking, like the shower, which is making for an expensive time.

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wot, no communes?

Tuomas moved out of his.

(NOT A JOKE, HE SAID SO THE OTHER DAY)

pdsf

(punchline destroyed, still funny)

bet yous live in a house or something

in my life it has gone 3, 2, 3, 2, 440, 2, 1, 2, 0 and it's shortly to be 1.

i live with the three coolest people ever - and they are all randoms who just happened to end up moving in. this is the best living situation i've ever had. if i leave my washing in the machine, someone will hang it up for me; we never have any arguments over whose turn it is to clean anything; no money dramas; no noise problems; no trust issues. and they don't even give me a hard time about using our single internet connection all the time.

and they're all super nice, really funny, cool people. i dread moving out because i will never have this good fortune again.

me too! i live with people from a craigslist ad and it could not have worked out better. no drama. ever. they are very respectful and quiet. they do their dishes. etc. the place could use a woman's touch but i do not want to impose on their man-ness since it was their place first (though i am joining in on the lease now, so maybe i can subtly add some class?).

the best way is to do it subtlely... one small thing at a time, so they don't notice that you've completely redesigned the interior within 6 months!

You two are rumbled: you actually live together. Has to be, cause I never heard such a crazy story before. ;-)

I KNOW... i've been sharing houses for about 8 of the last 12 years, and i've ALWAYS had at least one dickhead/psycho/fuckwit/liar/retard/annoying bastard/filthy mole living with me.

but not this time! and we have a totally awesome dog, who belongs to one of my flatmates (that was the reason we picked her).