There are always different things that will effect a person’s living situation. Sometimes you have to move back to Mom and Dad’s until you get back on your again. Then there are times where you have found the perfect roommates in college that you feel you are going to live with for the rest of you life. There is the awkward ex-boyfriend/ex-girlfriend living situation where you moved in together and then broke up, but neither of you can afford to break the lease. There is the young mother/father living arrangement and the teenager still living at home scenario. Then when you get older, perhaps you are forced to live with a certain person because you have some of the same medical needs and the assisted living nurse require that you live together. The spouse that is too scared to leave their “significant other” even though they are getting abused on a regular basis.
There are more different types of living situations then I would ever be able to list. However, more often then not, whatever living situation you are in was at one point a choice. The circumstances may have changed from what they once were but it is always up to the people involved in how they want to handle how things have become.
I found a blog that asks people about their current living situations and these are the answers that the blogger received:
I live with my husband, and we share one house… although I think it would be a lot of fun to have two houses with a joined hallway. Or at the very least, two master bedrooms, as is the trend in new, big, construction.
I am an only child too! So I can totally relate to needing alone time, something that is a tad hard for hubby to figure out since he is one of five kids. The nice thing is, we each have our own office, and otherwise I know we would drive each other completely bonkers.
<3 Aimee · May 18, 02:25 PM · #
I live in a pretty messy old state house, with my crazy furniture (I have Karen walkers old board room chairs!) and artwork in a semi-ghetto part of town. But it’s mine and I love it.
I would love to move to a huge crazy old house up in the hills around wellingtons cod somewhere
<3 Sarah · May 18, 02:26 PM · #
I live by myself right now. I like it because I always have art projects and clothes scattered about the place. I do want a kitten or a sugar glider or some other pet soon… I think ideal would be having one or two friends down the hall.
<3 Katrina · May 18, 02:29 PM · #
I’ve always had an incredible desire for small spaces. I’d always find the smallest room in the house and somehow now I’ve ended up living in a house with a cupboard under the stairs that’s big enough for my bed.
I’m going to try it out when I’ve removed some shelving in there. It’s a perfect private space, everything in the room (and in small rooms before) is mattress and when the energies sort themselves out after you settle in, it feels comforting and sort of womb-y. Especially appealing in winter.
Obviously, it probably won’t work for claustrophobics, but I’m kind of the opposite so it offers me a great deal of privacy and security in a house where I have to be around people a lot.
<3 Amyz · May 18, 02:36 PM · #
I lived with the boyfriend for nearly two years and my dog for six of those. We live in a terrace in Richmond (a dream I’ve had since I was a teenager) with a tiny little yard and a pseudo bungalow/laundry. If I were going to live overseas I’d love a loft in NYC or a shoebox in Tokyo, but if I were going to live the domestic life I’d have a yard big enough for a serious veggie garden and a massive kitchen.
<3 Shannon · May 18, 02:44 PM · #
I don’t unnecessarily like big spaces; I just want one that’s big enough. I live with my husband and 3 cats. I just want enough room where we don’t feel cramped.
I actually lived in a loft in NYC, I would move back in a second, though maybe not to that exact space. : P
<3 tricia · May 18, 03:31 PM · #
Life in Tokyo can be pretty cramped. The two of us in a two story, ultra slim line apartment with dangerously twisty internal stairs can sometimes get pretty tight!
Alone time is oh so gorgeous – living together and working together with different languages, cultures and ways of doing things requires an intense amount of awareness (of course that awareness sometimes flies out the window) but there is never a dull moment.
Regular ‘Ladies Lunches’, separate shopping sprees and pampering visits to the salon make things a whole lot smoother!
Always expressing how grateful we are to each other (in any language), lots of hugs and plenty of love words help a lot too ;)
<3 tokyomade · May 18, 03:59 PM · #
I almost have that “hallway connecting two homes” thing…see, I live with my boyfriend (and his family), but I live in a self-contained unit that’s downstairs from their house. So I have my own space (which at the moment is strewn with academic texts on pornography and my entire wardrobe), but whenever I feel like it I can run upstairs and spend time with The Boy.
Being that we’re both people who need lots of alone time, it works really well.
<3 Nadia · May 18, 04:35 PM · #
I live in the tallest apartment building in aaaalll of san Jose, an art-deco style building built in the late 1920s…
I’m in the center of downtown, across from the new city hall, which is all space age and lit up at night, and I have 180 degree plus views of the city.
It was my number one choice for a place to live in san Jose and I finally got it
HOWEVER. San Jose is not my ideal city to live in! I want a beautiful Victorian with lots of bay windows near golden gate park in san Francisco that I can paint pretty colors.
<3 rachel · May 18, 05:54 PM · #
I don’t know if we’ve already mentioned this in e-mails, but I currently live with Bebop & his weeuns. In a house. In an area of the city that I don’t fancy much – very suburbish. Not ideal, as I’m not very kin to children & we’re having relationship difficulties.
I currently (JUST TODAY!) found a house that was built in the 50s/has a pool/patio/amazingness & I’m really hoping to build a little community of neat people there.
<3 mary bee · May 18, 07:12 PM · #
I live in a Victorian terrace house in England. It’s a lovely house! There’s enough space for us all to keep out of each other’s way if we need to (myself, my parents and my sister). However, my boyfriend stays round most weekdays so I hardly ever get time to myself! The only free time I have is if I decide not to go to his house at weekends.
Having someone staying in your room all the time really makes it seem smaller than it is! And I sleep in the attic room, which is massive!!
My ideal living situation would be University accommodation! I can’t wait to start a life away from home! I’m taking a gap year next year so I’ll be at home a lot longer than I wanted to be but at least it gives me the opportunity to travel!
<3 Lizzie · May 18, 08:29 PM · #
I live in my parent’s house now, so pretty much anything else would be ideal! Ha, I’m kidding… kind of. I think people move out of their parents’ homes faster in other countries than in the US, but I plan to move out after college and live la vie bohemia for a while – and that truly is my ideal because I’m not fond of anything too modern. :)
<3 Stefanie · May 18, 08:38 PM · #
“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”
-Unknown
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