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Hopscotch. We played the game every day after school. We played it on the sidewalks and in the playgrounds outside the eighteen-floor brick building that was our home in Brooklyn, New York. We played …
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Yes, Airbnb is changing the paradigm! Touted as a paragon of the sharing economy, Airbnb makes it easy for renters and homeowners to rent rooms for short-term stays. Less expensive than hotels and …
Divorced, the mother of two adult children, Cynthia left the rural community where she had lived for many years for life in the Boston area. Her journey taught her the benefits of living in shared …
When I met Niki, she told me I should have bad housemate stories on this website. She volunteered her own two stories. Here they are with commentary from me afterwards. Niki could have avoided these …
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“What surprises me when I look back on it, is how easy it was.” This is what Nancy says about learning to rent on her own terms. When Nancy was a newly divorced mother she rented a bedroom in her …
"It's the best thing I've done for myself in years." This is what my friend Bruce said when I asked him how his plunge into share housing was going. He's been living with his housemate for five …
