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So, curating people--or whatever other term you want to use for "picking your roommates carefully"--is damned important, and always has been. If you have a roo
by angersock 11y ago
So, curating people--or whatever other term you want to use for "picking your roommates carefully"--is damned important, and always has been.
If you have a roommate that loves throwing parties, and everyone else is maybe super tired from working, you're gonna have a bad time.
If you have roommates that don't believe in cleaning, ever, then you're gonna have a bad time.
If you have roommates that spend a lot of time torrenting and your internet gets shut off, you're gonna have a bad time.
If you have roommates that are really into drug culture, you could well end up having a bad time (seen this happen once or twice).
You can all be totally different in, say, politics or sexuality or income or whatever (provided rent is still being made), but it gets super shitty super fast if the basic "Hey, this is our home, don't cause problems" stuff isn't nailed down.
- plonh 11y agoPeople who think they can be roommates with anyone, because they have minimal life commitments and they go out a lot and don't care about their home environment, are often people others find to be bad roommates.
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- dasil003 11y agoWell wait a second, is picking your roommates carefully the same as the curation they are talking about here? Because it doesn't feel that way to me. It feels like they are trying to capitalize on the age-old concept of having roommates, and slathering on a thick coat of shiny lacquer in the form of a business model based on the painfully trendy idea of curation. I can't put my finger on it exactly, maybe it's just the article that's to blame, but there's something here that feels more akin to high school cliquishness than screening potential roommates, and that's what I'm objecting to.
- angersock 11y agoWell, let's be clear here: their main curation requirement seems to be "Can you spend up to 48K a year in rent?".
- dasil003 11y agoHm, I'm not going to go back to read the article but I distinctly remember the word "like-mindedness". But let's give you the benefit of the doubt for argument's sake, then the only crime is the douchiness of calling that "curation".