Why “roommate?”
Why “roommate?”
Which is right for YOU: traditional roommates, co-housing or co-living?
In the United States, “roommate” means an adult who wants to live with other adults to achieve a variety of lifestyle improvements: social, financial, security, etc.
In Europe, “housemate” or “flatmate” might be more common, but they’re synonyms.
Few adults outside of college dormitories choose to share bedrooms with other adults with whom they’re not intimately involved. Most roommate, co-housing and co-living situations involve collectively sharing at least rooms, sometimes even buildings plural.
If you’d like to be extremely literal, it should probably be roomSmates. But since no one we know actually says that, it’d mostly look like a typo.
Confusingly, some use the terms co-housing and co-living interchangeably as well. However, since we believe there are meaningful distinctions to be made between those categories, we’re going to make them.
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