Moving into a Flat Share in Leeds

If you mention the words flat share one of the first thing that come to my mind are the various sitcoms which involved a group of people sharing a house and their antics. If you mention flat share in Leeds, I conjure up images of my student days and if you say flatshare Leeds, I think of a friend of mine who was convinced that flat share Leeds was two words and not three so he always said that it was flatshare Leeds, and we gave up explaining after a while since English was not his first language.

Now that I own my own house, I can look back fondly at the time when I was looking for a flat in Leeds to rent that was within my budget as a university student. Having so little money, the only option open to me was to live in a flat share in Leeds, which was quite an experience in itself, since I had come from a very sheltered background and to find myself having to be responsible for all the decisions which affected my life was quite daunting.

Throughout school, and even college to a certain degree, our studies are monitored and we have to keep to some kind of a schedule. When you go to university, you have to be careful because it is so easy to fall behind with your studies as there is no one breathing down your neck and making sure that you do all your work. Life during this time is what ever you decide to make it and it is up to you to make sure that you keep all the areas balanced and on track.

When it come to living arrangements you need to be able to get on with the people that you have to share space with but your interactions can vary from being on nodding terms with the other residents, to becoming good friends and sharing your lives. Remember that everybody is different and we all have our own quirks and hang ups which other people may or may not be able to deal with. We need to be aware that it is so easy to be selfish and intolerant of other people without giving a thought as to how we are behaving and how our words and actions could be interpreted.

Having moved into a flat share in Leeds when I was younger, I have to say that I was naïve and wearing my rose tinted glasses because I expected all the residents to get on with each other and live as friends but I was soon put right. We had three people who came and went because they could not get on with the other three students in the flat in Leeds or because we could not adjust to them, especially the one who didn’t like to brush his teeth and had the habit of coming really close to you as he was talking, or the one who stole.