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Re: The Freedom and Perils of Living Alone

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Post by zacharycohn » Sun, Feb 26, 2012, 3:54 PM UTC

I went from living at home->college->living with a significant other. One of the major reasons we broke up was that I felt like I needed more space that I couldn't get while living together.

Now that I live alone, I often find myself missing having other people around. I'm on Couchsurfing and host almost everyone who applies, but the timing tends to be haphazard.

The article last week about the woman who funded her startup via Airbnb really intrigued me. I'm considering putting my apt up on Airbnb now, just to have more people around.

Re: The Freedom and Perils of Living Alone

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Post by tomjen3 » Sun, Feb 26, 2012, 5:40 PM UTC

jakeonthemove wrote: post #30

Sniffnoy wrote: post #19

This article doesn't seem to strongly distinguish between living with someone else in the same house/apartment/etc and living with someone else in actually the same room . There's a big difference there!

I don't see the difference, though - when I had people living in other rooms of the same apartment, they could've just as well been in my room - I couldn't focus because I'd always imagine someone interrupting me :-)...

It is much more difficult to masturbate when you share a room.

As for the other thing, just put a sign on the door. You can properly find the design online.

Re: The Freedom and Perils of Living Alone

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Post by Sniffnoy » Sun, Feb 26, 2012, 10:01 PM UTC

jakeonthemove wrote: post #45

Sniffnoy wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You couldn't just close your door, or lock it if it came to that? Though in any case simply having space where one can literally be alone is valuable.

Even someone knocking on my door when I work is enough to totally distract me...

Hm, I'm evidently coming from a rather different context here. I'm thinking of things in terms of, if you close your door, people typically won't knock unless it's important, because if you were open to talking to people at the time, you would have left your door open or simply been in a public space rather than your room.