Would you prefer to live alone?

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If money were no issue at all, who would you choose to live with?

I'd live alone	56%	[ 60 ]
I'd live with my parents	1%	[ 1 ]
I'd live with other relatives	0%	[ 0 ]
I'd invite a friend to live with me or move in with a friend	10%	[ 11 ]
I'd go actively looking for roommates (word of mouth or advertising)	1%	[ 1 ]
I'd live in an assisted living community of my choice	0%	[ 0 ]
I am married or living with my SO and I'd stay that way	15%	[ 16 ]
I have a SO but I dont live with them now- I'd move in with them or invite them to live with me.	6%	[ 6 ]
Other	12%	[ 13 ]

Total votes : 108

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05 May 2011, 4:09 pm

I find I have tremendous social anxiety when living with people, and if I could afford to live alone, I would. I've had roomates a few times and found that wile it was fun at times, I need a LOT of time to myself. I need time for myself where I'm not putting on any sort of social front as having to do it all the time is exhausting.

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06 May 2011, 4:21 am

auntblabby wrote:

Indy wrote:

Meeting my SO was the chance result of a sequence of painful events. I like to think that I went through a year of tormented hell, then something good happened.

you found the silver lining in the dark clouds.

Indy wrote:

A lot of the best songs are meaningful. When I was homeless, I only ever played songs like this on my Walkman. Every other song seemed empty. As soon as I had a proper home again, I started listening to ABBA. Weird :lol:

that is because "misery loves company" - when you were no longer miserable, then you no longer needed the miserable company and so you went back to the cheerful company.

You put it better than I did.

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09 May 2011, 1:39 pm

I don't know myself... living alone was the object of my dreams for many years but I do realize at the same time that I'd have to do everything on my own which I wouldn't be very fond of doing. But I know it would help me become more independent. It would be great if I lived on Solaria

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09 May 2011, 2:44 pm

A place with three cabins, one that me and my bf could live in together and then one each when we need to be alone.
I would have many cats and a maid to clean, cook and stuff like that for me.
Oh, I wish I had the money for that,

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09 May 2011, 3:38 pm

When I live alone, I prefer to be by myself.

Except in the case of a SO.

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09 May 2011, 4:06 pm

If I were able to get a SO, I would live with them. I currently live alone and it gets quite lonely.

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09 May 2011, 4:36 pm

I live with my parents. If I won the lottery, I would buy them a mansion to live in and I would move into a guest house on their property. That way I could have some semblance of independence, but I could always visit them if I started to get lonely.

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09 May 2011, 11:29 pm

I live alone and like it. But I'd like to have some cool neighbors, that'd be sublime.

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09 May 2011, 11:47 pm

I want to live by myself. Even if I'm living with someone very close to me, who I have all sorts in common with... we're eventually going to get in one another's way. More specifically, he/she is going to get in the way of my personal lifestyle and greatly annoy me.

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09 May 2011, 11:49 pm

Btw, what's an SO?

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10 May 2011, 12:59 am

I live with a roommate in a dorm now, and I like it. We were friends first, though. I'd prefer to live in an apartment/house with roomies in separate bedrooms.

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10 May 2011, 1:20 am

Daredevil-Aspie wrote:

Btw, what's an SO?

A female pig.

In all seriousness, SO stands for "significant other."

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10 May 2011, 1:28 am

Oooh. OK.

I don't even want a significant other. A sex buddy, yes, but not a full-time girlfriend or anything.

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10 May 2011, 9:31 am

Daredevil-Aspie wrote:

Sometimes my SO does get in the way of my personal lifestyle and annoy me, but he more than makes up for this in other positive ways!

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10 May 2011, 10:08 am

I would prefer to live alone as i like my own personal space really.

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10 May 2011, 10:12 am

hartzofspace wrote:

Daredevil-Aspie wrote:

Sometimes my SO does get in the way of my personal lifestyle and annoy me, but he more than makes up for this in other positive ways!

If you're talking about sexual fulfillment, a couple can do that without having to be subject to one another day in and day out.

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