I grew up with a single dad and my brother. When I turned 9 my dad bought a big house and my two uncles lived there too. My dad and two uncles still live in that home. It worked out great it was like having multiple dads and our house always had someone home making it feel safe.
1 year ago | 133
I lived at a "Buddhist" retreat center community. That was great until it wasn't. It's a complicated story. The head of the lineage got caught in a sex abuse scandal. But now I live in a community that helps migrants, refugees and the homeless. All of my roommates are from different cultures. We have just started a food pantry for our larger community of about 80 people or so. One of the most important things when living in a community is to have strong boundaries.
1 year ago | 60
I’ve lived communally in very cramped conditions for 10 years in the military and alone for many years since. As much as other people are gross and annoying, I felt a deep loneliness creep into my life after awhile alone. Everything just started to feel somewhat hollow. Cats helped fill the void somewhat, but moving in with someone made me realize that living alone is just too isolating. Humans are biologically social creatures. We evolved that way. And I think it’s no secret that the places in the world where solitary living is on the rise are also places with high rates of depression and anxiety. Also the ecological impact of every single person having their own place with their own stove and fridge and couch etc is staggering. Literally the earth cannot support that. The only reason we can do it in the west is because of all the people living in poverty elsewhere in the world
1 year ago | 47
I have 3 friends who own a rural property together out of town. I'm going to be building essentially a tiny house on that property, and they're looking to maybe bring 1 more household on the lot. They're planning a communal garden and central gathering place. The idea is that we all have our own homes, but we can come together to share chores like hauling water, garden work, and splitting/stacking firewood when needed. And gather to play board games and such. I'm looking forward to it. These are friends who have become family and community to me.
1 year ago | 63
spent around a year with a roommate from hell ( someone i saw as a best friend ) and now i live alone. i am 100% loving living alone as a early 20’s woman. i will take the isolation i feel over feeling like crap from how my roommate treated me. i know not every roommate is bad, ive just fallen in love with living alone.
1 year ago | 24
My senior year of college I lived on an off campus apartment with friends of friends. We became good friends and we were only 10 min from campus so our mutual friends would visit the apartment often. We also had 2 friends living below us. It was a great year before Covid and I’d love to recreate it at some point in my life
1 year ago | 10
I lived alone in a studio for just over 3 years until a couple months ago moving into a 2 bed/2 bath with one of my best friends and college roommates and I am so so so much happier on a day to day basis. My ADHD/depression was kicking my ass when I lived alone and my apartment was disgusting, I hardly ever cooked for myself, and was horrible at keeping up with chores - but I can manage my household tasks so much better with someone else around. Plus being able to have socialization without having to make plans for it is so nice and something I desperately missed when living alone.
1 year ago | 5
I love living with my small little family of 3, but I would love to see my friends and sister more. I really like sticking to myself and “bothering” those around me like my neighbors.
1 year ago | 3
The worst place I’ve lived in is college dorms. I’ve lived in three different dorms and the only time I could manage not having melt downs almost every day was during covid and there were only four other people on my floor. I just cannot stand the noises and smells of other people due to my sensory issues. My current dorm neighbors smoke weed weekly and I’ve had to get my RA involved multiple times because of how detrimental the smell has become to my ability to function. It irks me to no end that colleges do not have quiet/sensory reduced floors. I have a literal medical accommodation but they can’t fully accommodate ☹️
1 year ago | 55
excited to see how this video comes out! this topic is also interesting to me :)
1 year ago | 17
Never had our own place growing up as a single child with a single mom. We always lived at someone else’s place - a friend of her’s, aunts, grandparents. Wasn’t until I started working at 19 that we could pay rent to have our own apartment (with a stint sharing a room that we rented in a house). The closest I’ve come to living on my own is during college having my own room and en suite bathroom for one semester in a dorm. Would love nothing more than to have my own small space with no one else.
1 year ago | 6
The worst place I ever lived was a co-op community. So much drama and barely any cooperation 😫 never agai
1 year ago | 88
I live alone currently and it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. Someday though I think it might be fun to have a huge property with my mom and sister in their own houses with a shared space we could spend time together.
1 year ago | 18
I had a really bad nightmare that my partner and I moved to the city and had to live with roommates!! The horror!! But seriously I hope I don't have to do that again. I know I wasn't as good a roommate as I could have been when I was younger but I've gotten a lot better at taking care of my space and stuff...but I still never want to do it again
1 year ago | 26
The worst place i lived in was in a flat where the neighbour below would peer through her blinds when i got home and continued looking when we made eye contact. It was weird man.
1 year ago (edited) | 15
I think about this allllll the time and am so interested in the eventual results!
1 year ago | 1
I grew up living every other week in a flat with my mum, her friend, and her friend's kids. Separate halves of the flat but one shared kitchen and bathrooms. They are like family to me still even though it's many years since we lived together.
1 year ago | 1
I always think of communal living as my dream. I don’t know if that is my adhd writing checks my autism can’t cash tho 😅
1 year ago | 30
I've only ever lived alone once or twice in my life, and it could be lonely, sure, but I hated having housemates, hated it. I lucked out with actual roommates if I ever had to share a room, but housemates were the worst, I had so much anxiety and stress from it.
1 year ago | 4
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