12th November 2009 | The Urbanest Team | Comments [0]
Share a flat or enjoy your own accommodation?
You’re at a crossroads. You’ve lived with your parentals for seventeen years or more and you need to move to be close to your exciting new place of study. Do you move into share accommodation or are you better off on your own?
We think sharing is great (not only because it’s what we do).
So, to share or not to share? Here’s why we think sharing rocks.
The best part is the sharing of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. We know that sounds a little romantic but honestly, from the bottom of our hearts, we mean it!! Xoxo.
Most people only experience share accommodation once in their lifetime – they are usually straight out of school and foraging through the wilderness that is the real world. But we think that wilderness will seem much more like a well-looked after garden path if you’re able to share it with your newly found student flatmates.
Dictionary.com offers a few key points about the word ‘share’. It says that as a noun, share means the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group. It is also described as an “equitable portion” – as in “do one’s share of the work’.
Share accommodation is the one place where you can share the load of things you really don’t want to do (like housework), but also share the things you really want to (like meals and study resources).
It’s great to share mundane things like the housework and grocery shopping, which can in fact turn into ‘cleaning parties’ or ‘shopping adventures’, depending on which way you look at it.
Most importantly, being able to share the highs and lows of study is an integral part of the ‘coping’ process, and the biggest bonus you get for living in share accommodation.
Often, when we first embark upon study after school, it can seem that you’re the only person in the world going through Mt Everest-equivalent trials and tribulations – getting to know new faces, being thrown into a world of text books and tutorials and more.
But when you look around, and have a chat with your student housemates, you’ll realise you are not alone. Everyone is going through exactly the same thing. That support team will become one of the most important cheer squads you’ve ever had. Plus if they’re really smart you can always ask for some help with that tricky finance question that’s been bugging you!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/share