Dwellings

[Ace-TheTimelordsCompanion]

I know it is a long poll, I have tried to think of as many options as possible. I know that what is considered 'normal' is far from covering the full extent of the truth. I don't mean to be insensitive, if my ignorance causes any distress please forgive me.
Please answer in the best approximation as you can, just choose the closest option where possible.
Feel free to comment anything about your situation if you feel comfortable

[LaMaestra]

I live alone in a flat. I am the only person there. Rent? Prefer not to say. I hate the country I live in but I am very happy with the area I live in, by which I mean the street (the actual city is boring). I only consider one dwelling as home.

[Skycaptain]

I live alone in a two bedroom terraced house, on a shared ownership scheme. The second bedroom is my office. I live in a peaceful area with good transport, shops, services etc. Just no fellow AVENistes anywhere close that I am aware of.

[RK800]

I live in a three bedroom, one bath house with my Mom, Grandma, younger sister and pets. The area I live in has a high crime rate (high crime as in my neighbor once committed armed robbery and had his door kicked in within the same week) but I've lived here my whole life so it's home and I'm relatively happy with it.

4/5.

[Annapox]

There are four places I consider "home," but I only live in two of them.

I'm in college, so during the school year I live in an apartment on campus, but during breaks I live at my parents' house, which is technically four bedrooms (we use one as an office/guest room and three as actual bedrooms).

My boyfriend's parents are divorced, but when I'm not at school I spend a lot of time at both his parents' houses. His mom lives in a townhouse, and his dad has a two-bedroom apartment. My parents would never allow me to spend the night there (they think it's impossible for people who are dating to sleep near each other and not have sex, which makes no sense to me), but both houses still feel like home to me. In some ways, they feel more like home than my parents' house does.

[deltaX]

Currently living in a five-bedroom home with my 2 parents and younger brother.

I'm mildly happy with my living arrangements, though me and my dad tend to butt heads a lot so sometimes I wish I lived on my own. I will probably move out once I complete my undergrad.

[Schrecken]

I live in a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath house on a 1 acre lot with my mom. It is her house and she and my step father bought it when I was a teen. She is disabled so I am also a live in caretaker for her - I do all the household tasks inside and outside, along with my home based full time job. I don't officially pay rent but I do help with household expenses and do all of the work around here.

[drjohnhwatson]

I live with my mom and dad. Say hello to a college graduate who is poor as shit. We have three finished bedrooms upstairs and then the basement is largely unfinished, but I think if you wanted you could convert the basement into at least three bedrooms, if not four. I don't pay rent because I don't make a lot and anyway I help them out in other fashions.

I have dreams of having my own cosy little (hopefully Victorian!!) home and being happy with a SO, but at the moment those are far off wishes, I suppose.

:P.

[scarletlatitude]

Live alone with cats.

I have a flat (apartment here on this side of the pond). I share it with cats. Does that count? :P

This place sucks (all of the faucets are corroded, the electricity works sometimes, everything is drafty and my heating/ac bills are through the roof, and SPIDERS. SO MANY SPIDERS.), but hey, it's the cheapest in town for a reason! You get what you pay for!

[Eva]

I live with my parents, except that I'm going to college and I have a dorm room. It's a single room--I'm the only one living in it. The dorm is actually kind of nice. The campus is small and rural and very scenic. The house I live in with my parents is a little too modern for my tastes, but it's in a semi-rural area just beyond the suburbs. It's quiet, open, green, and full of history. I have two older sisters, but they're married now, so I'm the last one keeping my parents from having total empty-nest syndrome. I have a scholarship that pays for my housing, except for the extra cost of the room being single. I have a job on campus that helps pay for that.

As for a place that truly felt like home, last year my housing was off-campus in a nearby house. I rented a garret room that was perfect for my somewhat spooky temperament. But this year I'm back in the dorm.

[Grumpy Alien]

I live in a 3 bedroom house with my mom. It's alright. I like being close to my family (my mom and grandmom) but I hate the suburbs. I'm more of the apartment type. I don't have money to give to my mom as rent, although she doesn't need it, since I make very little money. (Which is why I still live here!)

[LaMaestra]

I live alone in a two bedroom terraced house, on a shared ownership scheme. The second bedroom is my office. I live in a peaceful area with good transport, shops, services etc. Just no fellow AVENistes anywhere close that I am aware of.

I have a 2 bedroom flat and I use the 2nd bedroom as my office! I call it the study. It was formerly my mother's bedroom.

[elainetta]

Is it weird that I still have family living in the house where I grew up, but it doesn't feel like my home when I visit it? Only one place feels like home: the dwelling I share with my SO. As for what kind of dwelling it is and how much we pay out for rent, I'll hide behind the anonymity of the poll (I did answer all questions except that I "preferred not to say" for the income one). Let's just say the "balance" between incoming and outgoing expenses is part of the reason I'm only at 4/5 happiness here. The other is that I my living arrangements don't have the support of pretty much my entire family. They can shove off, though; I'm of legal age, and my parents gave their OK for me to move out, so bite me.

[korik]

Well, I'm a house sitter. I have several "homes" and I'm always the only human living in them at the time. These houses have been everything between single wide manufactured homes in mobile home parks, and nearly-million-$ homes on 30(?) acres. I love when I'm on my own. In between jobs, I live at my parents house,... and I'm miserable. (for the record, both the extremes in this example are my least favorite jobs. My favorite jobs are the "average" homes. Generally, the people who were my friends Before they were my clients, as I feel most comfortable in their homes.) (the manufactured home is my aunt/uncle who only live there part time. and my uncle is a smoker so the house smells terrible!!)

[ElephantsAlways]

Six people in my family, and I'm the oldest of four kids. We live in a four bedroom house, and I used to share a room with my sister, which I was unhappy with because the beds (quite literally) took up all the space in the room, a smallish bedroom even for one person, so I'd drag my blanket into the bathtub (when it was dry) so I could get privacy to read. When my parents found me there, they moved the office to the garage to give me my own room, and I'm over the moon about it. :D I put 5 for happiness because I really couldn't ask for anything more.

As far as "home" goes, I put 1 on the poll, but I don't suppose I've ever considered a physical place as more than the house I'm living in--I'm an air force brat, so the longest I've ever lived in one place is five years (coincidentally that's where we live now, although we're moving again relatively soon). Maybe the world is my home. Honestly, I get bored of cities after about three years. I absolutely love moving. I guess I'm kind of odd in that sense. But my family and my religion are the only things in my life that I've had consistently, and I don't need much more than that (though I'm a terrible hoarder of stuffed elephants). I guess it's another kind of home that's unique to military kids and others who move a lot.

[Chemic]

I live with my mom in a 3 bedroom home that we've lived in for about 12 years. While I'm comfortable here, I want my own place but can't afford one atm (had a job that didn't pay much, then lost when the company started going under). We live in the suburbs, but I'm almost 25 and as such, I've got that itch most my age have with the need to be in the city and be able to walk to everything. When I was in college, if it wasn't for the lack of my belongings being split between my dorm and home, I'd consider my dorms home. I loved having my own space, my friends nearby, and being able to just move around at odd hours without someone griping about how noisy I was later. I've tried to make best of the situation of being stuck at this home, but I don't make big changes as I keep saying this is temporary and I'll have my own place, hopefully, in the next year.

[Boots*]

At the moment I live on site at my "work" in a caravan a little way away from the main house where several other people live. I don't consider it "home" (That is my mum's place) but it is very cosy and comfortable. Plus we are out of town so I get fantastic stargazing <3

I spend about 60% of my income on rent, but considering this also covers electricity and dinner, I really can't complain

[MishMeesh]

I live with a housemate in a 2 bedroom apartment. It's not too bad, except our upstairs neighbour has a drum kit, and the windows are drafty as all heck (extreme temps, hot or cold, really suck). My housemate will be moving to a different city in the fall and I'm hoping to get a single bedroom apartment or a bachelor.

In the summer about 40-50% of my work income goes towards rent. Otherwise I live off student loans so I wasn't exactly sure how to answer that question accurately.

[kelico]

I live with my family (parents and older brother) in a 4-bedroom house. I'm very happy with my living situation...I haven't known any other way of living (well, except before my oldest brother moved out! Then there was 5 of us in the house!), and it's my comfort zone. : )

[Guest]

I live with my family (parents and older brother) in a 4-bedroom house. I'm very happy with my living situation...I haven't known any other way of living (well, except before my oldest brother moved out! Then there was 5 of us in the house!), and it's my comfort zone. : )

I know the feeling.. I am in a two room apartment with one bathroom and four men [brother,uncle,dad,me] and mom.. :(

[Bezzy-Loo]

I'm presently living in a 4-bedroom house (one room is for our reptiles) with my boyfriend and 2 other male friends. In a few months, once we're a bit more stable financially, my boyfriend and I will be moving into probably an apartment to live on our own again. We are fairly consistently broke at this point, and in debt to one of the friends who has been acting as a financial buffer for the other 3 of us, while we all pay him as we can.

[jimerman]

hmm, a lot of people live a home. nothing wrong with that it just seams interesting.

[Junibud]

There isn't a good option in the first question for dorm livers; I'm good friends with some people I live with, and can't wait to be rid of others.

[Larkaloke]

I live in a fairly spacious three-bedroom house along with one of my moms and my younger brother. Neither my brother nor I pay rent, as neither of us has our income up to the level where that would be reasonable yet; we take care of the house, the yard, and whatever repairs and such we can take care of. I'm happy with my situation. I would be extraordinarily unlikely to find anybody else to live with who I would get along with as well as I do with my family, and I wouldn't want to live completely alone, either. It's a nice enough neighborhood, although a bit too near the student parties at times (although, having lived here for more than twenty years, I'm used to that), and I like the general climate of the state.

There's really only the one place that feels like home to me. I've been in my oma and opa's house often enough that I feel certainly comfortable there, and the same goes for my other mom's apartment, but I've never lived in either place.

[verily-forsooth-egads]

Mum, dad, myself and 3 cats in a 2.5-bedroom house. It's an all right place; can't complain.

[DexM]

I live in a four bedroom house with my mum and dad. My rent/board will be going up, my decision, not theirs ^_^, but only when HMRC decide to to get my tax code sorted out. If we are talking about area when it comes to being happy, it could be better. If it is the house itself, it could be better, mainly if my dad lived somewhere else. I am also very comfortable at my brothers flat and I consider it a home away from home.

[Larien]

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