5 good reasons to share an apartment ..and 5 good reasons not to.

I just started sharing an apartment with a friend, and while I love it, sometimes I catch myself considering jumping off a roof. Sharing your home is not for everyone, and most important is to find the right person to share it with. Therefore a list of the 5 best and worst things about sharing.

Top 5 good reasons to share an apartment.
1. You're never really alone. You know how you sometimes feel bored out of your mind because there's nothing to do around town, and everyone is t0o smashed to go anywhere (most commonly know as sunday). Well now you got someone to watch all those bad sunday afternoon programs with you. Cooking also becomes so much more cozy when you're two doing groceries, cooking and planing. Not to meantion you eat with company.

2. It's sooo much cheaper. The price difference betwen a one person apartment and a two persons apartment is not that big. Food also becomes far cheaper, plus you get to eat much more varied. The internet bill, the tv bill, there is suddenly so many bills that are cut in half for you!

3. People always drop by. For some reason there is a magical fomula called: 1 person living in the apartment = people come by when you arranged it. 2 persons living in the apartment = people drop by all the time. This of course is most fun when you have the same circle of friends.

4. If your friendship can last living together, you know your friendship can last most all things.

5. Share the mess! Suddenly it's not always your turn to do the chors around the apartment. Now, someone else goes around and do the dishes and vacume. Woo!

Top 5 good reasons not to..

1. You're never really alone. This can be as fustrating as it can be awesome. Somedays you just want everything to go according to your head or just want to be alone, and that's when you go home and lock the door. Unfortunally for you, you're nolonger the only person with a key!

2. Lack of privacy. Get used to it. Who ever is visiting, or whatever you're doing (or have lying around), someone is constantly around to witness it. That's just part of the deal you made.

3. If the friendship breakes for one reason or the other, you're pretty much screwed. Finding a new apartment can take time, and be costy. Additionally the friendship will often breake because you have to tolarate each other more than you can do in the long run. And a war at home is no fun. In addition to losing money and your home, if you force each other to move, you most likely also just lost a friendship.

4. Rythem issues. Are you a morning person? Then I hope for your sake, that your roomie is not a night person. If one person prefer the loud music at night with parties, and the other early in the morning when starting the day, and if you like few guests while your roomie wants people around all the time, you've choosen the wrong roomie.

5. Who does what? Agreeing on that in theory is one thing, executing that theory is another reality. Are you the only one who's doing the choors, or is your roomie complaning that s/he is? The smallest things can sometimes cause the biggest fights.