How to not Find a Flatmate
"Hi, I saw you were interested in finding a roommate this year. Thanks for responding to my post! Perhaps we say a bit about ourselves and what we are looking for?" Feverish excitement about searching for prospective flatmates and a flat in London lasted a few seconds, panic hit me right after. The only word that came to my head was … "clean". You see, I'd lived with the same flatmates for over two decades. I didn't search for them the first time around, they came with the house. Rather, I came with them. My only flatmates ever had been my parents. I'd watched friends and family search for and move into homes, flats - all the while dreaming of the day I would get to do that. I had never had to even narrow down an area to search for homes at. All I had to do was pack, show up, and try to mak e that place my own. My parents had pampered me that way. And it wasn't for lack of intent. Those of you who've known me at any point in my pre-London life...
