I moved out when I'd just turned 19 because I wanted to be independent and couldn't stand living with my family. Over the past five years I've lived in seven different places just in Sydney. I've shared with friends, a boyfriend, total strangers and on my own. The worst experience was sharing for a year with my best friend at the time, she was always at home or having people over or wanting to hang out, I had no space to myself and that became very stressful, eventually ruining our friendship. I never want to go into a share house again. I have my own place at the moment, just me and with my cat, very quiet and spacious, it's perfect. Perhaps it's part of my Aspergers but I find it impossible to relax when I'm sharing space with other people and their mess, noise, friends, moods, demands, etc.