Living Alone vs Having Roommates - 6 Months Later

After six months of living alone for the first time, I decided to share my updated thoughts.

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[yourengineerbro]

My thoughts: Living alone is a superpower. With great powers comes great responsibility.

[customkush]

I’ve been living with roommates for the last 4 years and I’m finally about to move into my own space and I’m so excited. I feel like a prisoner confined to my bedroom because I prefer to keep to myself and don’t use the common space especially when my roommates are using it.

[CatEyedGoddess]

I love living alone but the increasing cost of rent, bills and basically everything. My salary is not keeping up with my cost of living. Put it to you this way my rent went from 975 to 1350 a month. I tried to move but it’s hard to find a place and most cost over $1500 a month. My salary went up by $1000 annual, this is before taxes and deductions. So as you can see there is a big gap. So getting a roommate might be necessary. Someone told me if I got educated and got a good job I should be living a nice life. Still waiting.

[Trav-uu]

I've discovered it's horrible both ways. When I had roomies, there was big roomie drama, either roomie was smoking narcotics, aggressive, domineering etc, but when I lived alone, got so paranoid, started talking to myself, etc.

[rachellinch]

I'm currently trying to decide if I want to live alone or live with a roommate and your videos have been SO HELPFUL! Great job and thanks for making such great, thoughtful content. 😁

[knockoutkoasters]

I didn't even listen to the video yet, but me personally. I rather live by myself than live with people. I get annoyed too easy

[isis.eetherr]

You should look into room dividers! I just got a shoji for my studio. Great for making a portion of the space private.

[adfjshdidhdjdjideuq]

I want to get out of my moms house and having at least 1 roomate. I am a little scared avout it because i am on my 30s.. but i really hope to get 1 good roomate.

[Blktiga]

Living alone is heaven if you can afford it! Having roommates is hell!

[RumplestillSkin]

I love living alone but bills sometimes can be hard I can usually make it through just fine but money still freaks me out a bit 😂

[Jewels-oo]

I have a lot of stuff but I can see cons on my stuff getting taken for both instances.

[DavidB.Fischer]

First apartment alone, definitely an experience.

[DDoZERR]

Pretty cool. I am from Bellevue myself.

[mberge]

I don't know, sharing a studio apartment with a room mate is not a lot of space. I share a 2 br 1.5 bath house with a room mate now since Oct (7 months). Kind of miss the quiet. She juices, etc and uses the kitchen for 2 hours minimum at night.

[BenJohnston]

I lived in Redmond for 3 years near the power line trail. Where in Redmond is your apartment?

[LucidLuci]

I've been alone for a year after buying my first house at 29 and even though it is hard and I have a spare bedroom I'll never go back to having housemates. I've been in situations where the landlord chooses them and man did I live with some weirdos. But I'd also never let a friend go homeless if someone needs a place to get on their feet that's what my spare bedroom is for and visitors

[SarahJane]

How come you can't light candles?

[danielh]

Do you plan to stay in Redmond or move to Seattle? I feel like a lot of new grads gravitate towards there. I was debating this question for a long time, earlier this year.