Roommate
Another similar term is sharemate (shared living spaces are often called sharehouses in Australia and other Commonwealth countries).
A sharehome is a model of household in which a group of usually unrelated people reside together, including lease-by-room arrangements.
The informal term for roommate is roomie,[2] which is commonly used by university students and members of the younger generation.
Other motivations are to gain better amenities than those available in single-person housing, to share the work of maintaining a household, and to have the companionship of other people.
Social changes such as the declining affordability of home ownership and decreasing marriage rates are reasons why people may choose to live with roommates.
Therefore, many novels, movies, plays, and television programs employ roommates as a basic principle or a plot device (such as the popular series Friends or The Big Bang Theory).
Sharing a house or a flat is also very common in European countries such as France (French colocation, corenting) or Germany (German WG for Wohngemeinschaft, living [together] community).
On the other hand, it is less common for people of any age to live with roommates in some countries, such as Japan, where single-person one-room apartments are plentiful.
Sharehome residents are typically unrelated to each other in that they generally come from different families[citation needed], although they may be composed of some siblings and sometimes single parents and their children.
Many universities in the United States require first-year students to live in on-campus residence halls, sharing a dormitory room with a same-sex roommate.
American politicians Chuck Schumer, William Delahunt, Richard Durbin, and George Miller famously share a house in Washington, D.C., while Congress is in session.
[citation needed] The following table lists the top 25 US cities by proportion of people who live with roommates according to the US Census 2016[6] and a 2017 Zillow housing trends report.
Guests and partners may also begin to board frequently, which can raise complications pertaining to utility expenses, additional rent and further possible cleaning duties.
The areas of impact can vary greatly in both positive and negative ways; most important is that individuals should be aware of the possible behaviour and social changes that may happen when living with a roommate.
[citation needed] Mood susceptible: "Each happy friend a person has increases that person's probability of being happy by 9 percent and each unhappy friend decreases it by 7 percent," says Nicholas A. Christakis, a co-author of "Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives".
Although shown not to be as impressionable as eating habits, our moods can change, specifically more in roommates based on the others emotions.
