DoniiMann wrote:
I lived in a share house situation for six years. Mostly Goths and Gamers. It made the rent very affordable. I never found out that I was on the spectrum until many years later, and one of the originals who set up that group has found out that he's spectrum more recently than did I.
As I look back on it, I think share housing can suit us very well. We each had our own room, common interests, but plenty of scope to stick to ourselves. Just need to be polite. We had basic rules and routines for bills and washing dishes. A shared common room, but mostly we pursued our own interests in our own rooms.
At one time there were six of us. Rent divided between six can be very affordable.
Yes it can be affordable. Back in the late 1970s in England I lived in a shared house with 4 others, at a rent of £4 each, which was extremely cheap even in those days. It was quite a run-down house, but snug and dry inside apart from the cellar. I got on well with the others, generally speaking, and was very happy there most of the time. Shortly after I left, the landlord passed the house on to a rather more ruthless and clever man who refurbished it and priced the remaining tenants out of the place, but it was good while it lasted, and goes to show that not every home is expensive to live in.