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Does the person have to (legally) accept that you ask questions about them ? I know I would not feel comfortable about someone asking questions about me to my previous roommates and I wouldn't give information about them to a third party.
How did the "hacking" world go from "Let's organize and make accessible all of the world's information." to "Let's make a couple of phone calls to people you don't know" ?
Back when it was still called "phreaking".
"Let's organize and make accessible all of the world's information" sounds like Xanadu's, Google's or a librarian's goal, not the "hacking worlds" in general...
This strikes me as odd: is it cultural? In my experience, people choose to live with friends. If they can't do that, they ask their friends for recommendations. And if they can't do that, they try very hard to live alone, in a closet if necessary, until they can make some friends. The ways somebody can be a good or bad apartment-mate go much further than anything that I imagine can be discovered by a third party maki…
Not sure were you're getting that. People live with unknown (before) roomates etc all the time.
I know it for a fact all over Europe, especially for younger people and Europe, but from the media, interviews, biographies and such I know it happens in the US too, to share the rent, etc.
Heck, weren't even a couple episodes of Friends were they were trying to find a new roomate?
And site, or 'product', this is one of the steps along the way.
The day we stop trusting random strangers is the day we allow ourselves to become a small part of an authoritarian zeitgeist.
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Plenty of people here in Lisbon - particularly university students, but not only - seek to share apartments because they can't afford anything else; if you make minimum wage, the rent of a reasonable house in the city will easily eat 3/5 of your salary. We rent rooms in a couple of 3-bedroom houses and, as far as I know, our renters aren't friend, though they're usually friendly, they don't really socialize. I think…
maybe you misused the words, but are you talking about renting whole HOUSE in largest city & capital of a western europe country? Places like that I've been, normal people (not on minimal wage, rather average salaries) cannot afford renting a proper house in the city even if they give out full single salary. Edge if the city yes, but anything usable in the city - nope.
In Berlin, for example, rents have been notoriously low (something like €500 would get you an appartment: http://berlin.en.craigslist.de/search/apa ), but also in many other cities.
Also in some cities the "city center" or parts of it has low rent because of many immigrants or things like that, and more wealthy people live for other parts/suburbs.
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Plenty of people here in Lisbon - particularly university students, but not only - seek to share apartments because they can't afford anything else; if you make minimum wage, the rent of a reasonable house in the city will easily eat 3/5 of your salary. We rent rooms in a couple of 3-bedroom houses and, as far as I know, our renters aren't friend, though they're usually friendly, they don't really socialize. I think…
maybe you misused the words, but are you talking about renting whole HOUSE in largest city & capital of a western europe country? Places like that I've been, normal people (not on minimal wage, rather average salaries) cannot afford renting a proper house in the city even if they give out full single salary. Edge if the city yes, but anything usable in the city - nope.
EDIT: Yes, by "house" I mean "apartment".
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Plenty of people here in Lisbon - particularly university students, but not only - seek to share apartments because they can't afford anything else; if you make minimum wage, the rent of a reasonable house in the city will easily eat 3/5 of your salary. We rent rooms in a couple of 3-bedroom houses and, as far as I know, our renters aren't friend, though they're usually friendly, they don't really socialize. I think…
maybe you misused the words, but are you talking about renting whole HOUSE in largest city & capital of a western europe country? Places like that I've been, normal people (not on minimal wage, rather average salaries) cannot afford renting a proper house in the city even if they give out full single salary. Edge if the city yes, but anything usable in the city - nope.
This strikes me as odd: is it cultural? In my experience, people choose to live with friends. If they can't do that, they ask their friends for recommendations. And if they can't do that, they try very hard to live alone, in a closet if necessary, until they can make some friends. The ways somebody can be a good or bad apartment-mate go much further than anything that I imagine can be discovered by a third party maki…
> In my experience, people choose to live with friends. If they can't do that, they ask their friends for recommendations. And if they can't do that, they try very hard to live alone, in a closet if necessary, until they can make some friends. Not sure were you're getting that. People live with unknown (before) roomates etc all the time. I know it for a fact all over Europe, especially for younger people and Europe,…
In Europe, the roommate experience just sucks - from the get-go - because nobody wants a roommate, really. Americans, unwilling to fess up to this fact, seem to have created machinations designed to facilitate this ease.
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> In my experience, people choose to live with friends. If they can't do that, they ask their friends for recommendations. And if they can't do that, they try very hard to live alone, in a closet if necessary, until they can make some friends. Not sure were you're getting that. People live with unknown (before) roomates etc all the time. I know it for a fact all over Europe, especially for younger people and Europe,…
I think its a particularly American affliction: to know ones roommates in advance. Perhaps its an artifact from the formative years, where the shock of living with a stranger is learned for the first time, and subsequent entrance into society is predicated with a desire to not have "a roommate experience which sucked". In Europe, the roommate experience just sucks - from the get-go - because nobody wants a roommate,…