Does your friend live quite close to where you are now?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 19:29, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

relatively, she lives in town, I live just outside of town
I'm reluctant to move in with her because she has a seven year old daughter, who's a total brat, has kicking screaming all out fits. But I need a place to go and I can't get a place on my own.
She's offered the place to me a couple of times and I think it's more of her needing money than out of the goodness of her heart. But it's a place to go that I can afford so I'll have to do what I have to do.
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 19:33, Reply)

Would staying with your parents be an option?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 19:34, Reply)

I don't know. My dad would be unhappy because of the dog. My mom would be ecstatic because of the dog.
Either way I'd have to do a massive overhaul of the damp nasty basement to make it liveable.
And I'd be losing a lot of freedom.
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 19:40, Reply)

Doesn't sound like the dream ticket then.
But living with a 7 year old.... That might be fraught with problems too.

Are there any other house-share options in your area?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 19:42, Reply)

not really
most of them don't allow dogs and the ones that do want $600 a month which is fucking absurd because you can rent a two bedroom house for that much.
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 19:45, Reply)

Could you rent a two bed house
And then sub-let the spare room? Based on that, you'd be calling the shots and could have the house as dog friendly as you want.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 19:49, Reply)

can't get a place on my own
I technically am unemployed
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 19:52, Reply)

Can you get housing benefit (or whatever the Americans call it)?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 19:54, Reply)

Even though I legally can't get a place on my own, I'd rather live with a friend if I can afford it than to live off benefits when I don't need them.

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 19:58, Reply)