{"id":70,"date":"2018-06-07T13:26:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idealflatmate.co.uk\/flatmate-HQ\/?p=70"},"modified":"2018-10-23T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:12:17","slug":"flatsharing-vs-living-with-parents-in-your-20s-8-big-fat-reasons-for-flatsharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/flatmate-HQ\/flatsharing-vs-living-with-parents-in-your-20s-8-big-fat-reasons-for-flatsharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Flatsharing vs Living With Parents In Your 20s: 8 Big Fat Reasons (For Flatsharing)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahhhhh, millennials. We\u2019re a catch all right, don\u2019t you worry about that. Income? Low. Hygiene? Poor. Unemployment looms over us like the crapstorm of pollution that plagues the earth and our tastes change every 7.63 seconds depending on which decade we fancy recycling next (who cares that our degrees are useless when we can make a living conning one another endlessly into buying unsightly 90s hand-me-downs for extortionate amounts on Depop! #business).\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Living with your parents isn’t that cool<\/h4>\n

I do. I need them. Mummy. No, they\u2019re lovely, the best, but they kinda grate a little when they\u2019re berating you daily for leaving the goddamn toothpaste on top of the goddamn sink instead of putting it back in the goddamn toothpaste cup. And don\u2019t even get me started on the cheddar. Why aren\u2019t you Sellotaping the bag shut after you\u2019ve used it? I don\u2019t care if you couldn\u2019t find the Sellotape, you know where the sewing box is. Why didn\u2019t you sew it shut? Do you think your father and I work all day to come home to stale cheddar? Would the Obamas eat stale cheddar?<\/p>\n

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2. Please welcome special guest Captain Obvious for this one:<\/h4>\n

Captain Obvious: \u2018Unless you\u2019ve won the lottery thrice or you run a very successful meth empire, you sure as hell aren\u2019t affording a studio flat in London in your twenties. An ambitious cupboard, maybe. Flat? Nope.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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3. Soothe your burgeoning sense of self-loathing and general despair at life with enjoyable social gatherings, e.g. flat dinners
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Get cosy with a film and a takeaway or cook up a storm and eat it at the table like actual grown-ups. El vino shall flow, the conversation likewise, and you\u2019ll start to feel warm and fuzzy inside. And if things get weird and Neil starts to tell you about how he once killed a man with his bare hands, I don\u2019t know, just smile and nod. Everyone has their quirks, man. Chill.<\/span><\/p>\n

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4. Sharing is caring, baby<\/span><\/h4>\n

Clothes, utensils, cooking ingredients, Nicolas Cage DVD box sets, you name it. ALL the human life essentials, multiplied under your roof, there to borrow if you misplace your own. You\u2019ll forego the last minute supermarket dash when you realise you\u2019re out of cumin, and never again will you have to go to work without any trousers on because yours are in the wash.<\/p>\n

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5. If a mad axe-murderer breaks in, you can use your flatmate as a human shield<\/span><\/h4>\n

Generally this will be considered wrong and bad, though. So maybe think of it as, like, a last resort.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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6. After a hectic day of work, you\u2019ll have likeminded people you can moan with<\/span><\/h4>\n

Horrible bosses, irritating colleagues and undervalued overtime, amiright?!?!?! In a flatshare, at least you\u2019re coming home to people who relate, friends you can drown your sorrows with. Beats screaming into your Union J pillow, alone. Not that I have one of those. Bye.<\/span><\/p>\n

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7. Makes for way better first Tinder date conversation<\/span><\/h4>\n

Picture it: you\u2019ve travelled an hour and twenty minutes to meet Lucy, absolute sort, obviously, on the edgiest edges of Bethnal Green. Brand new 90s get-up on, yours from Depop for a cheeky \u00a3176738. Love is in the air, you\u2019re feeling good, but here\u2019s the thing: there\u2019s only so long you can mask the fact that not only are you in no way charming or charismatic generally, at all, but you\u2019re still living in your childhood bedroom in Croydon. And what are you supposed to say about that? \u2018Sometimes, Lucy, when Mum\u2019s feeling a little fruity, she\u2019ll give me cornflakes and shreddies in the same bowl. Like, mixed\u2019. Or if you live alone, what then? \u2018In a studio flat, Lucy, no one can hear you scream\u2019.<\/span>What you need is banter, my friend. Flatmate banter stories. The latest mischief Greggers has gotten himself into, the time he prank called the local Chinese. That kind of stuff is gold.<\/p>\n

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8. You\u2019ll grow as a person\u2026 Or something<\/span><\/h4>\n

Imagine the furthest thing from a life coach, and that\u2019s me, but seriously: living with new people from different backgrounds and cultures can only be beneficial. You can LEARN stuff. COOL stuff. Opportunities will arise, like travel and business and maybe even lurrrrve. When you open the door to your new flatshare, you\u2019re opening a thousand other doors with it, and that is outrageously bad writing\/ I sound like I\u2019m on MDMA, but just go with it, man, because maybe this is me now.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>PARENTS, HUH. WHO NEEDS THEM?<\/p>\n

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Old people hate us \u2013 literally hate us, and as a result we\u2019re leaving the EU, by the way \u2013 but no sir we give not one rat\u2019s ass because in the words of Taylor Swift we\u2019re miserable and magical and we\u2019re, like, feeling twenty-two.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>We\u2019re a goddamn delight, is what we are, and at this pinnacle time, in the prime of our lives, we have to stick together.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Enter flatsharing, and a smorgasbord of reasons why the lot of us should absolutely be cohabiting homes not with our parents, not on our own, but together, as one, as we navigate the sort of exciting but also really, very terrifying future that lies ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s face it, finding a place of your own to rent is no dream job…but we’ve got you covered. Spare rooms to rent in London<\/a>, and all over the place<\/a>. Deep breaths guys. You got this.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Ahhhhh, millennials. We\u2019re a catch all right, don\u2019t you worry about that. Income? Low. Hygiene? Poor. Unemployment looms over us like the crapstorm of pollution that plagues the earth and our tastes change every 7.63 seconds depending on which decade we fancy recycling next (who cares that our degrees are useless when we can make … <\/p>\n

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