Living situation
By magicalart
@magicalart (75)
United States
December 23, 2009 6:37pm CST
Does anyone else have to live with family or friends? In the last four years, our family has been bounced from place to place. I feel that none of the places we've lived have been good for our family. No one seems to realize that we need to save up money for a place of our own. I feel like our roommates have always thought that we need to be their housemaids, live-in nannies, or helping hands. I don't mind helping people but there has to be a limit to it. What's everyone's opinion?
2 responses
@magicalart (75)
• United States
24 Dec 09
With the job situation the way it is here, it's difficult to survive on one's own. Is there a limit to helping out? I don't think helping out includes being a house slave and live-in babysitter. I don't mind helping. It's just where is the cut off?
@ToughTate (143)
• United States
24 Dec 09
I think the cut-off is when you actually feel stressed or worried because helping is effecting your time and overall state of being negatively.
@jeanene72 (16)
• United States
24 Dec 09
How would you feel if you were on the giving end, if it was YOUR home and your friends or family needed to come live with YOU. Wouldn't you expect them to pitch in with housework, etc.? No one gets a free ride, it is only fair for them to make up for their lack of monetary contribution with work. The people that want something for nothing are what's wrong with our society and our economy today. I don't like the use of the word "slave". How else can the people who come to live with you pay you back? At least by making your work load lighter, if you are carrying all the financial burden of increased utilities, etc. Somebody has to pay that extra money. The least the new "roommates" (friends or family) can do is do a large share of the work around the house, especially in common areas and the yard. The people coming to live with you should WANT to do these things as their way of paying you for your trouble.
@snowstormz (220)
• Australia
24 Dec 09
hi, well so far, the roommates you have been living with don't sound like roommates to me. They sound more like... the 'masters' of the house and what does that leave you and your family? Slaves? Perhaps you and your family could rent a small, cheap apartment because i personally think that's better than living with the roommates you have lived with =)
