Automatik;728232 wrote:I'm at a point where I need to start looking into future living situations. I currently live with a friend who I met through another friend. We are going out separate ways at the end of the agreement.
I need to figure out if I want to find another roommate or live solo. I've wanted to live alone since my last few years of undergrad, but either lease agreements or financial reasons prevented this.
I guess my question is has anyone ever went the solo route and then regretted it?
Living alone will be significantly higher in cost and space, but I can handle both. I don't have any potential roommates lined up and I'm not going the random route. Everyone I know here is in a lease and I highly doubt I can recruit any friends in Ohio to move. I just don't want to get into a solo lease and regret it or end up on a veryyyy slim budget. That would suck bad.
The very first apartment I ever had when I was 20 I lived in by myself for a year and I LOVED it. My situation was good though, because all my friends, coworkers, potential girlfriends lol etc lived right around the same area, so there was always somewhere I could go hang out or could always find someone to come over and chill if I didn't want to hang out by myself. But I found there were several benefits...A) even if the person living with you is just a roomate, not a significant other or relative as is your case now, you always have schedules to work around and shit to split up to do, and what not. I loved living by myself not having to worry about anyone else's comings and goings besides my own. Nobody coming in later than you when you're trying to sleep, having people over when you'd really rather not have people over etc. I also found that I could work a lot more that way; I was well rested bc I could go to sleep when I wanted and not have people around bugging me, and thus, I'd have more energy during the day to work. B) If you're single, women love it if you have your own place. Not only does it show you make enough money to have your own place, but that you know how to manage it AND of course it's a place where the two of you can always be alone. No pesky roomates to disturb whatever it is you might be doing! C) and lastly you can do WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT. I had days off in the summer where I literally never put a shirt or shoes on, just walked around in a pair of shorts, sat out on the bank (my apartment was literally 20 feet away from a huge lake) drank beer, grilled some burgers, and spent my whole day fishing. You can, of course, still do stuff like that with other people living with you, but who the hell would want to? I guess the best part I liked of it was being able to control when I was around people where I lived, not being forced to be around them because they lived there. I could have people over when I felt like it, or be left alone when I didn't. I loved it, but you might not. JMO
I always wanted to live alone when I was in school but could never afford it. There were times when I had the apartment/house to myself and I always loved it.
Matik, I have no idea where at in Manhattan I'd be living, I have no clue of the area yet...I was there last weekend for an interview, that was my first time in NY since I was real young.
Fab4Runner;728407 wrote:I always wanted to live alone when I was in school but could never afford it. There were times when I had the apartment/house to myself and I always loved it.