I deeply enjoy living with people. If you like what's on my blog, you should definitely consider sharing a place together.
The most convenient thing for me is that you have a beautiful house I can stay in, full of your awesome friends, and you invite me to stay there. Alternatively, if I like you enough we could rent an AirBnB for a week and stay together on an interesting country (either full of EAs or of new ways of living).
Leave your phone number here if you're interested.
If you're on the fence, I recently sent a survey to everyone I've lived with in the past year (except Fazl because I forgot we lived together, sorry!). I got 15 responses from 19 housemates total. You can see the questions here, and their (mostly anonymized) answers below:
The order seems purposeful, but that's what I got from asking Claude to place them "on a random order".
what's it like: engaging, interesting, supportive, much conversation
liked: you get to know each other a lot and he (successfully) tries to make your life better
disliked: sometimes he talks to you too much when you've just woken up haha but usually I like him in my face
what's it like: Pleasant, fun and altruistic. Good roomie.
liked: Fun talks and deep too
Willing to help / build community: eating together, going for walks, playing padel, encouraging the rest to eat fruit, etc.
Making amends: tennis balls — concerned about it and resolving it.disliked: Just one thing, which anyway given the overall experience takes a back seat because it was very positive: I'm not the owner of the house and I don't know how it landed with him because I didn't talk to him about it, but maybe with what happened with the blind I would have apologized (or maybe you did and I wasn't there). Same with the tennis balls — you did apologize, so it's a specific case.
Context is I quite possibly broke the blinds of my room because I didn't know how to use them. They were planning to call someone, because the blinds at many other rooms were also broken, but I didn't make an effort to e.g., cover the cost of repairing my room's blinds.
I also lost a bunch of tennis balls playing pádel on the backyard. I bought replacements, though I'm not too certain of my net impact on the house's tennis ball stock.
what's it like: Quiet, friendly, clean. No complaints. … Just kidding! Great guy all around and absolute joy to live with. 10/10 human. fully recommend without any second thoughts.
liked: Hearing your high pitched witch laughter in the house always made me happy <3
disliked: I will always hold against you that you said my last name sucked. You better watch your back hombre …..
what's it like: He's nice.
liked: Asks good questions and is serious about doing good. So felt glad to help.
disliked: Can't think of anything.
liked: Alejo is very smiley and a good presence around the house; I enjoyed chatting with them and hearing what they were up to :)
disliked: No major pain points! Mostly because we didn't actually end up spending that much time together. (I think partly because I ended up out of town for a decent fraction of their stay.)
what's it like: Alejandro is incredibly warm and sweet — he was a joyful presence to have around the house.
liked: He's very laid back as a housemate, very warm & funny too.
disliked: Not much to say. He works hard so can be in his room quite a lot (though that's not intended as a huge criticism).
what's it like: Was mostly out and about working and socializing, was very chatty when he was in and up for house activities. Was tidy and considerate for the time he was there although that time was pretty short so can't speak to how that would play out in the long term.
liked: i find it hard to remember but i think in general i enjoyed hanging out.
disliked: long showers, maybe slightly intrusive/a bit much at times.
what's it like: Great, really! He's a positive presence, and he freakin cooks!!! But really, the conversations were amazing, super interesting and helpful in many ways, and I feel much closer to him now.
liked: Oh man the cooking! And the deep conversations.
disliked: Couldn't say really... Oh. Loud meetings, but was quickly fixed (honesty, yey!).
All answers translated from Spanish.
what's it like: Good.
liked: Playing with him.
disliked: He doesn't follow the rules of our game. — Signed, Cris. (David said he liked everything and then joined Cris's complaint.)
what's it like: Stimulating, because of his routines, conversations, curiosities, and conscious presence in the here and now.
liked: His understated joy and spontaneity.
disliked: He leaves hair everywhere and doesn't make his bed.
Hahahaha, that's my dad!
liked: Fun.
disliked: Playing on his computer — he always wants to play with us.
My guess is David mixed up the form fields. You can see his actual complaint along with Cris' answer
what's it like: Pleasant.
liked: That he spent time with his little sister — seeing them happy.
disliked: That the good doesn't last.
I only visit my sister's house once or twice a year.
what's it like: It's living with someone in constant personal transformation, who adapts to situations, who shares and enriches you with the knowledge he's acquired — a sociable person.
liked: That he's always improving on each of his work projects, seeking perfection in everything he does.
disliked: Little organization in personal things and in the cleanliness of his habitat: bedroom, kitchen and bathrooms. Points to improve. That you have to improve the things in your own environment first before trying to help the rest of the world.
I'm way less careful about e.g., leaving dirty dishes at my own home compared to living with friends. Part of that is that at home the chores expectations are more ambiguous, but I also suspect there's some surreptitious bargaining where we decide each person's chore load by seeing who's willing to postpone it the longest.
what's it like: Cool, because we play fun games and share things we both like. I'm never sad or down when I'm with him.
liked: That I never get bored with him, because we always do something we both enjoy.
disliked: That sometimes he'd scold me, but well, he had a reason.