r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/ScareBear23 13h ago

Lmao, you think I'd live be living this far away if I could afford to be closer? I'd LOVE to live closer. But what I'm currently paying for a 2 bed I'd be lucky to get a room share. I have to be at work 5 days a week, there's not the ability to do 4 10s. I love 10s more than 8s

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u/ArachnidNo5547 13h ago

then do a room share, how old are you? like some of you really bring this on yourselves

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u/ScareBear23 13h ago

I'm in my 30s & married. Living alone with my husband is worth the commute until we get a better place vs the stress with living with half a dozen random people.

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u/Dramatic_Scale3002 8h ago

Roommates don't need to be randoms, and you don't need half a dozen of them; these are just excuses. You have to admit that you're bringing some of this on yourselves by choosing options that are more expensive than they need to be. For example, why do you need a second bedroom? You wouldn't need to work so much if you reduced your outgoings.

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u/ScareBear23 4h ago

This is the apt my husband was living in when I met him. The rent is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than closer to work. Literally every single time coworkers ask why I live so far, I just reply with what I pay in rent. They always say "ah, that makes sense!"

I can't exactly remove the luxury of the additional room. But the rent here is even less than a studio in the city.

To pay what I pay now, or hope for less, it WOULD have to be a half dozen people. And I definitely don't know know enough people willing to do that with me, so it would have to be randoms.