very easy: look for the cheap renters, especially where roommates are wanted. along with the cheap rent you may find good neighborhoods, places, but the main price you pay: you almost ALWAYS have to live with FREAKS. And not just unusual folk like me, but extremes in stupidity, stinginess, the REALLY weird, or a combo of all. just a small sampling of ones i've found in NY and L.A:
- L.A I lived with a guy who was a Vietnam vet AND a Postal worker. he didn't sleep in his bedroom because he used it as his ARSENAL: shot guns, pistols etc. no exaggeration about any of this
- in Queens NY I lived with a chick who literally wouldn't leave her room from fall to spring except to go to the toilet and get food. not exaggerating again. she would hibernate.
- in Bronx NY i lived with this loon who never left her bed, kept the tv on 24 hours, shaved her dog in the SHOWER (you think it clogged?), stored her broken glass in my room (from a table?), was hairier on face and legs than me, would feed her dog egg salad, kept the washer and dryer etc in the middle of the kitchen floor. that's what i can remember, i was out of there in a week.
- my present housemates (Harlem) used a shower curtain coated in black mold, washed their underwear in the bathroom sink, never buy dish soap, keep around 7 tubes of toothpaste around (there's 4 of us), don't know how to use a plunger
so if your voyeurism or whatever get the better of you and you want to see the real live freak shows in present day america, go with the cheap seats and pay the cheap rents.
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