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This seems as good a place as any to ask for advice... Been living back at home with my parents on the Wirral for about a year now after living with some old school mates in a shared house in Liverpool. I've worked in office admin since leaving sixth form, but my mates have all either moved back home after finishing their degrees or moved to other parts of the country. So I don't know anybody that wants to share a flat/house. I'm 23 now, and living at home is not for me, I'm missing out on a lot of the clubbing and socialising that living away from "home" would entail. (And to be honest I feel like a bit of a saddo) I'm not earning a bad wage and could probably afford up to £60-70 per week rent. Anyway...does anybody know of any good websites or agencies for finding shared properties in a particular area? I would like to meet my potential co-occupants first and make sure we're compatible before making a decision. Are there a lot of single rooms up for rent in cities like Liverpool? Or am I looking at renting my own place? Any advice or links to useful sites would be appreciated. |
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Ha ha ha, sad bastard!!! |
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Yes, it's very sad. But rents/property prices are high in England. I'm just scared of turning into the nerdy 40 year old guy in the office that lives with his elderly mum and dad. I need to get out enjoy myself again. |
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uni websites will have good links. |
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Seriously.... There will be Ads in the Liverpool Echo or similar, you also might be able to move in with students after crap student tend to quit round about Christmas time. |
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I'm not a student though, and I've just missed out on the beginning of term if I was moving in with students. I'd rather move in with some people a bit older (22-30) that earn a bit of cash and will pay their rent and not nick my food. |
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definately craigslist.com/org/whatever it lists by area which can sometimes be a pain. if your area isn't listed just find one nearby. |
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(don't know if craigslist is in england...) |
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Whatever your main local newspaper's online version is the next best place probably. |
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I would avoid living with students. Why don't you find a girlfriend/boyfriend who already has a nice place and move in? Or throw your parents out |
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despite you thinking i'm a twatk, whatever dont care, you're probably in the same situation as me, which is probably why you don't like me. but that by the by, just try flatmateclick it hopefully shouild be what you're after |
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Hey, i_x_ten just compared himself to you, swears I would not stand for this if I was you. fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight *forms a circle around,young boys about to fight (which is very clever as there is only one of me)* |
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I don't care, you seem okay I guess, I just like ragging on you 'cause you react. |
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lol, that reminds me of inter-school fights. 'oh the beaufort lads are coming down at four, you better be ready' and it would just be two of the hardest kids from each school split a lip and then the p.e teachers would break it up. cunts. |
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yes that is my problem, and you;re not the only one to notice it. if people give me shit, i bite. i've been warned not to, but i dunno, i cant help myself. 'cue torrent of abuse' |
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Ha ha, you live with your parents. Chump. |
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Chump with no mates, ha ha + |
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hey you, you stink |
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Why don't i_x_ten and swears move into their own SEX FREE ZONE together? |
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makes sense |
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Why would living with strrangerrs be any betterr than just satying at home? Orr do you still have to be in by 11 and tidy yourr rroom? |
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It won't be a sex free zone after I've had my wicked way with his pert little ass! |
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Because: I feel like a sad bastard, I am getting under my parents feet. I like the company of other young people. I want to live in Liverpool as opposed to the hillbilly wirral. I want to make some more new mates as my old mates are getting boring and never go clubbing anymore. I would like to be able to walk into work in the city centre in the morning, rather than pay £70 a month for a travel pass. I can't really take girls back to my folks' place. |
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Makes sense, but you might have trrouble finding people that fit yourr expectations. |
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23's pushing it, isn't it, at home. Orson Welles made Citizen Kane at 25, did he do it upstairs inbetween having his tea and taking out the bin? |
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yes that is my problem, and you;re not the only one to notice it. if people give me shit, i bite. i've been warned not to, but i dunno, i cant help myself. Bahaha. |
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i've lived in the same house ever since i was brought home from the hospital. it isn't fun anymore at all. |
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haha, I totally wouldn't be able to go back to living at home.. with family around you, even if there isn't little room, everything feels crowded.. maybe because with family they're family so they can go wherever they want all the time but roomates respect your privacy so you get to be alone when you need to. |
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"so they can go wherever they want" that's pretty bad..you don't know privacy in your family? |
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one thing, though, if you're moving in with strangers... make sure you all have some proper house rules 'cause you never know what strangers are gonna do, but if you establish the rules (don't make them too rigid, and don't do the mistake of having the "one guy does all the cleaning this week then another guy next week" rule.. divide all common areas between all people living there.. one to the kitchen, one to the hall, one to the bathroom, etc, and rotate it), seeing as you don't know them and they don't know you everyone will be too afraid of each other to not do what they're supposed to. |
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well, it's more like.. even if they're not in the room, the room is theirs to occupy, if you know what I mean.. like if your mom told you to clean your room or something.. if it was your room, you'd clean it when you felt it needed cleaning, but since it isn't your room (it's in your parents' house), you have "them" in the room with you at all times and you can't well have a party with lots of people at your parents house, can you? just because it's your parents house, and not yours. I think the feeling is called "smothering." when I first moved out I moved to a place where it was only me.. that felt really really empty, but I got used to it. now I'm living with two mates, and we're all in agreement about certain things, and we take things lightly so there's lots and lots of freedom plus company! |
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the partying house i get yeah..i never had a party when my parents were at home. i had it a bit different than most people living at home i suppose. i pretty much live alone since i was 17, 18.. |
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Ahahaha |
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Swears, when I was 22 and working I moved into a student house. It wasn't too bad as the ones I lived with were all reasonably serious about their studies (so not pissed up playing music at 4am every night) and were very good about paying their share of bills and not nicking food. I recognise this was quite lucky, but I knew one of them already and we veto'd the others. I can see the attraction of living with another "young professional" or two, but both shared houses I lived in were less pleasent to live in (than student houses). A mate who lives in a shared house now has found the same thing. In one flat I lived in (just me and a girl) the other party did my head in. This girl was initally very accomadating and fairly pleasent, but as time went on, she treated my presence as an inconvenience (she seemed to forget that it was my rent that was enabling her to stay there) and became an absolute fucking harriden. When it came to us moving out (lease expired), she broke the terms of the tenency agreement and then tried to charge me more than we had agreed for the cost of the rent. I suppose what I'm saying is don't assume "students bad, professionals good" always rings true. If you are going to live in a student house, try to find a final year students' one, or ideally a post graduates' house. They tend to be a bit more civil and the wastrels have usually been filtered out by then. |
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Move to Scandinavia |
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Prague or Berlin... check out the world... you got nothing holding you back |
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Swears looking for males 22-30 wants plenty of cock |
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I'd love the club scene in Berlin. But... I'd miss my mates/family. I've got a pretty good job over here, heard unemployment is pretty high in Germany. Don't speak German, I know a lot of mainlnd euros speak English, but it seems a bit rude. Will definately try to go next year or maybe to Barcelona. |
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swears you are my family, scarey huh? |
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huh? |
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