Not everything in life is coexistence in the relationship of a couple. Not everyone decides to stay living with their family until they can become financially independent. There are other options, such as sharing a flat with strangers which, like everything in life, has its pros and cons.
Advantages of sharing a flat with strangers
- Going to live alone is quite an adventure, as is going to live with your boyfriend. But more adventure is, if possible, sharing a flat with strangers because, what are you going to find at home? Surely you will find people very different from you and precisely for this reason they will be able to contribute many things to you. Learning is the goal in these cases where you have to live with people you don’t know.
- You learn a lot about coexistence, which can help you for a future as a couple. But above all you teach a lot about respect, respect other people’s hobbies, set limits so that your hobbies do not affect others, understand different ways of life, respect schedules, breaks, tastes… And don’t forget friendship, because best friends have left a shared apartment between what were initially strangers.
Disadvantages of sharing a flat with strangers
- It is clear that sharing a flat with strangers is quite an experience, but nobody wants that experience to last forever. Because there are also disadvantages in a shared apartment and the main one is the lack of privacy. It may be that no one enters your room, but that the rest of the places in the house are communal, it can give you the feeling of not being able to be alone with yourself for even a second.
- It is also a tremendous setback if some of the people who share the apartment have not learned what respect for others is. Noise, food theft and fights for not doing housework end up wearing down your spirits and you may end up wanting to go back to live with your parents. But hold on, it is your independence that is at stake and one day you may be nominated and leave home to go live alone.