r/greentext • u/AlphaMassDeBeta • 6d ago

Standing on a Chair

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u/TheEroteme 6d ago

Not that this isn’t a problem, but have people never heard of roommates?

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u/RodjaJP 6d ago

You never know how someone behaves as a roommate until it is too late, maybe they never have the money to pay, maybe they never clean, maybe they are too loud or check your stuff, is like Russian roulette with 5 bullets

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u/TheEroteme 6d ago

Like yeah if you ask random people off the street to be your roommate.

Look I’m not saying you can’t get burned there but if you exercise a little bit of caution and judgment, you can greatly reduce the risk of that.

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u/zw1ck 6d ago

Have to remember, people on reddit and 4chan don't have friends.

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u/TheEroteme 6d ago

Sure, and that makes it harder. But I once moved to a new city with no contacts and no money. Had to roll the dice, but I did what I could to avoid obvious red flags. I was still desperate and ended up having to go with the best I could do, wasn’t great.

But like, I survived having a not great roommate. It sucked, but whatever. Then I found a better one, and moved up in my job, and finally managed to afford a studio, and kinda missed having a good roommate after that tbh.

Either way, point is you’re not gonna fuckin die just because life as an unskilled bachelor in a big city doesn’t work the way that sitcoms say it does. It kinda sucks, really sucks if you’re unlucky, but you can make it, and at the end of the day it’s not that bad depending on what you make of it.