The benefits of shared living spaces
Mar. 19th, 2016 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI am currently sitting in the living room at Phil and Virginia's, reading an old copy of Custom PC and listening to Phil play the guitar* upstairs. Occasionally sounds of conversation between the two of them, as Virginia dyes her hair, filter down the stairs. It is making me very happy.
I remember living in a flat in Stirling which I co-owned with my friend Saint. It had four bedrooms, of which we had one each and rented two out. The four of us, plus occasional partners, plus visitors, meant that there was always something going on, whether it was roleplaying in the kitchen, a Soul Calibur tournament on the Dreamcast, a Babylon 5 marathon, or just people chatting. I loved it to bits.
Don't get me wrong, living as a couple has its benefits. But I have always missed that feeling of having a tiny shared community. I would love to have a bunch of homes close to each other, but I suspect that making that work with modern city living is nigh impossible without a millionaire sponsor who can buy a bunch of them up at once.
*Some kind of guitar-shaped device. Could be a bass. I don't claim to understand music.
I remember living in a flat in Stirling which I co-owned with my friend Saint. It had four bedrooms, of which we had one each and rented two out. The four of us, plus occasional partners, plus visitors, meant that there was always something going on, whether it was roleplaying in the kitchen, a Soul Calibur tournament on the Dreamcast, a Babylon 5 marathon, or just people chatting. I loved it to bits.
Don't get me wrong, living as a couple has its benefits. But I have always missed that feeling of having a tiny shared community. I would love to have a bunch of homes close to each other, but I suspect that making that work with modern city living is nigh impossible without a millionaire sponsor who can buy a bunch of them up at once.
*Some kind of guitar-shaped device. Could be a bass. I don't claim to understand music.
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Date: 2016-03-21 04:20 am (UTC)I hate co-habitation with such a passion. With a decent partner ok yes, I can bear it, somehow. With anyone else on Earth, no.
I thought I liked having company when my mom was still alive. And I do. And I don't. It's just awful to try to explain, really.
As far as neighbors (and I say this living on the outskirts - just blocks from - a city, in an apartment building) I like them as many miles away from me as I can afford to keep them. The most miles possible.
Fences make good neighbors? Well, national forests surrounded by huge, deep lakes make even better ones