How many people do you share a home with

[iff]

Could be an addendum to this

 

 

Inspired by current affairs, where as of an hour ago, we're not allowed contact with people outside of your household

 

I live alone

[Tja]

Live alone in a 3 bed, 1 bath detached, coronavirus-free home.😉 

Plenty of space for 1.

[Gloomy]

I don't live with any other humans, just my two cats.

[Zagadka]

3 other adults. It is crowded. Edit; oh, and our dog

[everywhere and nowhere]

I live alone, just like I always wanted. I was clear from early childhod that I don't intend to marry and around the age of 16 I started reiterating it while adding: ...but it doesn't mean that I want to live with my parents all my life.

Now my father is dead anyway (and by the time I was 16 years old it was already foreseeable...), my mom lives with her second husband, and I am glad to live alone. I have a strong need for a personal space and time on my own. My favourite activities are solitary, for me purely solitary: reading (which I consider The Most Important Activity In My Life, I really cannot imagine surviving a week without reading), playing games*, from time to time solving jigsaw puzzles**...

 

*There are games for more players... but I'm no MMO player, I play first of all adventure games, mostly retro... Although, there is a curious series of cute "double platformers": the "Fireboy & Watergirl" series (here's a link to part 1, for example). It can be played by one person (Fireboy: arrow keys, Watergirl: W for jumping, A and D for walking left and right) and that's how I completed all levels, but it is admittedly hard to concentrate on both of them and therefore I'd like to play it with a friend if I have an opportunity. (But currently I don't welcome any guests.)

**I have very specific jigsaw puzzle preferences and it has become a bit of a ritual for me. First: I'm so in love with old Unicef puzzles that I disregard all others. I have had this and this set since early childhood (still no missing pieces ), received this one when I was about 14 years old, and managed to buy another one as an adult. (I'd really love to have more, and the most of all - I'd love Unicef to reissue these puzzles. Music albums are reissued, why not toys?) Really, I'm so in love with their magical style that I can hardly imagine solving, for example, a jigsaw puzzle made from a reproduction of a famous painting or an animal photo; compared to Unicef puzzles, it's no fun for me. And, on top of that... there's something visionary about these puzzles, and for me as an extremely early psychedelic theorist (at that time only theorist, I first tried a psychedelic drug at the age of 30) these puzzles have somehow, when I was around 13-16 years old, become a part of my "sphere of psychedelic associations". (By the way, once I have tried solving my the first one linked here under the influence of magic mushrooms, but it wasn't entirely succesful, visual distortions made it hard to concentrate on the pieces.) So I always play 60s psychedelic rock when solving these puzzles - usually the Grateful Dead's "Live/Dead" or "Anthem of the Sun", or, sometimes, "Grayfolded" - a musical collage of tens of version of "Dark Star", created by John Oswald, a specialist in "plunderphonics", or such musical collages. In case of "Live/Dead" - the first three tracks, "Dark Star", "St. Stephen" and "The Eleven" are about the time I need to complete this puzzle.

[KiannaKitter]

None, got my 3 bedroom apartment all to myself. Well.... with the exception of the dog  

[Anthracite_Impreza]

One human, father. Wish I didn't have to but hey ho, life's a bitch.

 

More importantly: 4 cars (Clutch, Blitz, Konrad, Major ❤️), 4 motorbikes (Yammie is the only one named, I barely see them), 1 living laptop (Marley; RIP Nathan 😢), 8 adult snails (Lysithea, Sinope, Telesto, Adrastea, Iapetus, Nix(ie Noo), Dione, Callisto) and approximately a million snaillets (Anth did an oopsie and didn't check for eggs).

[Guest]

Me.  No pets, no plants just me.

 

Thinking of getting a cat now.

 

[CajunAce]

I live in a small house behind my parents' house. But technically, it's just me and my dog.

 

While in Americorps NCCC, I was in a small house with 8 other people, which was.... interesting

[Salmiakki]

I live with 4 people, my mom, dad, brother and sister. Though a lot of the time my sister isn't around, so normally I'm basically just living with three people. My sister's partly living somewhere else, and she spends most of her time there, but she still also lives here, so sometimes she's staying here with the rest of us. Right now she's not here but she might visit home again soon.

 

We also have two cats, a sister and a brother, and a female corn snake.

[Dreamer23]

Neither other humans nor animals in my studio.

At least that means right now no risk of catching Covid (at home)!

[kelico]

3 adults (my parents and brother). And a dog, 4 budgies, and fish.  

[gisiebob]

in the house that I am in with one other person there is a door that connects the two livingspaces with a bookcase in front of it on both sides

[Myssterry]

I live on my own with a cat, a dog, and two goldfish.

[paladude]

3 (my parents and older brother) + 1 dog

[Guest]

Nothing here.

[Grumpy Alien]

It’s just me, my husband, and our bearded dragon.

[iff]

Added two other options to question 2 - tenant and lanslord

[Janus the Fox]

Share with 1 more on the weekends and 3 on the weekends.  Parents (dad who also is the Landlord), a sister and on occasion, 2 budgies.

[Zebrafinch]

I think this needs a " how long will it take for them to drive you round the bend now we're under quarantine?" question.

[Skycaptain]

On 3/28/2020 at 1:40 AM, Gloomy said:

I don't live with any other humans, just my two cats.

Exactly the same 😃

[Astrobot]

My situation is quite complicated (and somewhat unknown). I live in some student halls of residence and normally there are about 30 students in my block (which according to the current British rules would consist a "household"). However, many have left now so I estimate the remaining students to be around 10 or less. We also have two kitchens and four toilets which means I typically share my toilet with 7 people and a kitchen with 14 people (I know this sounds terrible (and it is!) but I wasn't expecting to get something like this when I applied for student accommodation last year...). Anyway, several have left now so I think that at the moment I share a toilet with two other students and a kitchen with three. I don't really keep contact with any of the other residents so it feels like I live alone but I guess it's not the same thing as actually living alone. Luckily I have a washbasin in my room so I constantly wash my hands whenever I return to my room!

[anzu2snow]

I live with my parent (other one, my mom, passed away a while ago, so not both), and 2 cats. I’d prefer my own place with maybe one of the cats. However, since I broke my shoulder on March 10th, have had such bad swelling for 3 weeks that it makes it hard to walk, and the possibility of me having cancer; I’m extremely grateful that my parent’s here with me to help and for emotional support. She’s a school psychologist, and school has been closed. They had her working from home, and now it’s spring ‘break’, and she has no more cases. So, I’m kind of lucky this happened at this time. 

[Larkaloke]

I live with one of my moms and my younger brother (as well as our three cats). The house is big enough for three people, I get along far better with both of them than I would with anyone else and I'm not much inclined to live alone, so I'm happy with the situation.

[Purple Wanderer]

Appaently there are alot of baddass maverick loners here.

[Dreamer23]

1 hour ago, Purple Wanderer said:

Appaently there are alot of baddass maverick loners here.

I mean, in the US 45% of people are single, and 28% of all households are single person households, so not thaaaat surprising, even if ignoring that this forum by its nature likely lends itself to single people

[Grumpy Alien]

On 3/28/2020 at 2:24 PM, Kimchi Peanut said:

It’s just me, my husband, and our bearded dragon.

Important update! I also now have a dwarf hamster. 😎

[daveb]

3 hours ago, Kimchi Peanut said:

Important update! I also now have a dwarf hamster. 😎

A dwarf hamster? Must be tiny!  

[Grumpy Alien]

4 hours ago, daveb said:

A dwarf hamster? Must be tiny!  

Yup! The tiniest fluff

[J. van Deijck]

Depends on the week, one or two.

Every two weeks my friend's son lives with us, then he comes back to his mum.