Co-living is not only sharing rent, it’s a real adventure in which you often end up sharing your days and nights, crazy parties and confidences with your flatmates. Here are 8 types of flatmates, will you recognize yours?
1 – The passive-aggressive
There’s one way to recognize the passive-agressive flatmate: it’s the one that leaves post-its to make a point. Or sends you a cold text message after a conversation you literally just had. What’s the point? Just open the door and talk to me.
2 – The sociable
… way too sociable. It’s the one that cannot go a day without inviting the whole world to come home for a night cap or brunch or binge watching, whatever works. Since that flatmate arrived, you randomly bump into strangers all the time. In your own house. This has to stop.
3 – The ghost
You know you’re supposed to live together but you see that person once a month. And each time he shows up in the living room, it takes you a split second to recognize him. Eventually, you realize that all you know about him is his name.
4 – The stealer
Now there are differents levels of stealers, ranging from the borrower to the hardcore kleptomaniac. They just seem to think that everything that’s yours is also theirs, but not the other way around. You end up being paranoid about your stuff, always wondering if it will still be there when you get back.
5 – The one that doesn’t handle alcohol
That flatmate is the biggest party animal you know, the problem is that he never knows when to stop. Sometimes you physically have to drag him home while he wants to take naps on the street. In the morning, you might find that flatmate asleep on the couch with a cold pizza in his hand and, from time to time, he wakes you up at 4am because he lost his keys while partying. He’s a gem.
6 – The hoarder
Of course community life can be hard on your nerves, and having your own little secret garden in your room is important. But when a flatmate hides a mountain of dirty dishes, gardening tools and toilet paper rolls, you have to know how to say stop.
7 – The neat freak
The neat freak printed a cleaning schedule on his first day in the house, tracks hairs in the shower and cannot stand the slightest trace of dirt in the living room. That type of flatmate can actually come in handy when you’re too lazy to clean.
8 – The non-flatmate
That person has a place of his own (we think) but is always in your house. When you go grocery shopping you count him in. He’s just there, all the time.
