Why are all my roommates/neighbours the worst people on the planet
Every since I had to move abroad for school and get roommates or upstairs/downstairs neighbours, all 5 of them have been the worst. I have never encountered one “normal” roommate. First roommate was a girl who would stay up all night on the phone with her boyfriend in india. When I confronted her about how I can hear her and is disrupting my sleep, she would literally tell me “I don’t care. It’s daytime in India and I’m going to talk to him”. Sigh. Next roommate was another girl who would also stay up all night and on the phone 24/7. She would also run the laundry around midnight, where my room was right next to it. Not to mention she would start using the blender very early in the morning and have no awareness of how much noise she was causing. I had to remind her several times that the quiet hours were from 7-11, but she would fail to follow this every time. Third place I stayed at had a downstairs neighbour who would host parties every weekend. Mind you, the rental posting was advertised as a “quiet place” which was why I rented in the first place (to get away from the past roommate). Every time the parties were hosted, the music and vibrations would crawl up through my room and it was basically impossible to calm down or sleep. Moved out in a month. Next place I stayed at was a basement, with a couple living upstairs. Low and behold, turns out they had a child (that I did not know about since I was just told it was a couple living upstairs there), and yeah it’s as worse as you can imagine. Screaming at the top of their lungs, running around, randomly playing a terrible sounding flute out if no where… If I knew there was a child, I would have NEVER moved to this basement. Not only that, but when I asked the couple if they could at least try to quiet the kid down during sleep time, they somehow took it as an insult and proceeded to let the kid make even more noise. Moved out in 4 months. The fifth place was such a nice place. It was a basement, but super spacious and shared with one other room mate. There was also a cat that lived at the house and would come down to the basement (I love cats). But of course, the roommate had to be the worst person imaginable. She was very short tempered, and did not like it when I was in the common area with the cat. She told the landlord to keep the cat upstairs due to her having “allergies” (sure…) and the cat was no longer allowed downstairs. Not only that, but she was also one of those people on the phones 24/7, and when she saw me in the common area just studying, she would blast the tv or music without hesitation. The worst part was how she would bring her boyfriend over every single day and I could hear them going at it from their room. They were so loud my god. When he wasn’t over, she would bring her niece who was also a child and was very loud as well. It was impossible to just chill at my own home. I decided to move out when I called her out on some of the many rude behaviours she would make towards me, and she would hit me back with “is it cuz I’m black?”.
So is it just impossible to find chill, quiet roommates these days? Why do I have such bad luck with these roommates?
Posted Aug 11, 2025, 11:35 AM UTC