oh lovely, a ranting forum
The place is tiny. Two bedrooms, one of them a coverted something-else room, slightly larger than a closet. Really should be a small one person apartment; it's stretching it to have it house two, but that's what the building code allows. The rent is fairly high. I agreed to it because, well, the location is amazing, and it's hard to find a good location that is (barely) affordable around here.

Me and one other female roommate. I figured it wouldn't be too bad. Agreed to it over the summer, went home, came back when school started.

Turns out new roomie had gone and got herself a boyfriend over the summer. Lovely! Good for her! Nice guy too. Uh oh; boyfriend lives at home and commutes because he can't afford to live near/on campus. I understand, it's pricey, if you can't afford it it's a shitty situation.

Can boyfriend stay over a couple nights a week? I get the pickle he's in, I'm nominally a nice person. I say sure.

A couple nights a week turns into most weeknights... he's showering over here... his stuff starts to move into her room.... suddenly he's living here, full-time, all the time.

At this point it's too late to say anything, and if I suggested that it had become onerous, legit roomie would go into a depressive funk and "start thinking about suicide far too often... *dramatic pause*... again". I don't want to go down that road. I just want to make it out of the year by now.

This would be annoying in a big apartment. It is almost intolerably close in such a small space.

Plus... I understand that it's rough not affording housing here, but honestly? Because he's not chipping in for ANYTHING, I am effectively paying half for him to live here, use the water, electricty, cable internet and TV. He's not MY boyfriend. I sure would like it if some random chick would pay MY rent and bills so I could live on campus! Why hasn't that happened to me, eh?

Not that bad compared to most of you poor fuckers, but it pisses me off like anything and so I burden you with it as well.
( TheFelineAnarchist, Sat 7 Apr 2007, 8:26, Reply)