{"id":5381,"date":"2025-12-04T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:30:43","slug":"the-7-types-of-roommates-youll-meet-and-how-to-survive-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/en\/2025\/12\/04\/the-7-types-of-roommates-youll-meet-and-how-to-survive-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7 types of roommates you\u2019ll meet (and how to survive them)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Because shared living is basically Love Island, except with more passive-aggressive Post-its and IKEA furniture.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

So you’ve moved to a new city: maybe Berlin for the \u201ctechno and cheap rent\u201d dream (good luck), Barcelona for the sun, or Paris for the croissants and questionable landlords. You found a flatshare, and life seems good\u2026 until you meet them: your roomies.<\/span><\/p>

Living with strangers is like speed dating for survival. Some you’ll love. Some will make you question every decision that led you here. But don’t worry: we\u2019ve got the ultimate guide to the 7 types of roommates you will definitely meet (and how to survive them without losing your mind).<\/span><\/p>

1. The Ghost<\/b><\/h2>

They exist. Probably. You saw them once when they moved in with two suitcases and a plant. Since then, they’ve been an urban legend. You hear noises sometimes. Maybe a door creaks at 2 a.m. Maybe you once spotted a shadow near the fridge. That’s them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

You find their name on the mailbox, but the Wi-Fi bill will still be addressed to the previous tenant who left for Erasmus three years ago.<\/span><\/p>

Survival tip:<\/b> Embrace it. This is the closest you\u2019ll get to living alone without selling a kidney. Just\u2026 maybe don’t borrow their almond milk. They <\/span>will<\/span><\/i> know.<\/span><\/p>

2. The Kitchen Hoarder<\/b><\/h2>

Every kitchen has one: the spice kingpin. Their shelf looks like an organic shop in Prenzlauer Berg. Pink Himalayan salt, saffron from a \u201cfriend in Marrakesh,\u201d and three kinds of olive oil \u201cfor different moods.\u201d They also own that weird gadget no one really needs: something like a spiralizer for zucchini noodles.<\/span><\/p>

Survival tip:<\/b> Label your oat milk like it\u2019s your firstborn child. And accept that one day, you’ll accidentally use their artisanal truffle oil and start an unspoken Cold War.<\/span><\/p>

3. The Party Animal<\/b><\/h2>

It\u2019s Wednesday. 3 a.m. You’re trying to sleep because you have a class at 8, but in the living room there’s a full-on Erasmus reunion. Someone\u2019s opening Lidl Prosecco with a shoe. A stranger is DJing off their iPhone. At some point, your neighbor calls the <\/span>Hausverwaltung<\/span><\/i> because apparently, you’ve turned the WG into Berghain.<\/span><\/p>

Survival tip:<\/b> Noise-canceling headphones are your new religion. And pro tip: learn how to say, \u201cGuys, I have to wake up early\u201d in three languages.<\/span><\/p>

4. The Wellness Influencer<\/b><\/h2>

They start every day with a yoga flow in the living room and drink green juice that costs more than your rent. They’ll ask if you\u2019ve \u201ctried cutting out gluten\u201d while you’re reheating last night’s d\u00f6ner. Their room smells like palo santo and ambition.<\/span><\/p>

Survival tip:<\/b> Don’t fight it. Borrow their yoga mat once, pretend you enjoyed it, and quietly continue eating your frozen pizza.<\/span><\/p>

5. The Bathroom Bandit<\/b><\/h2>

They vanish for hours. Where? Obviously, the bathroom. It\u2019s their safe space, their sanctuary, their personal spa. Every morning, you play the same game: will you shower before your 9 a.m. lecture or will you show up looking like you’ve been lost in the Sahara?<\/span><\/p>

Survival tip:<\/b> Make a schedule before you start showering at the gym or brushing your teeth in the kitchen sink like a Victorian orphan.<\/span><\/p>

6. The DIY DJ<\/b><\/h2>

They didn’t just move in with clothes. They moved in with decks. Vinyl. Speakers that could fill a stadium. Every Friday night turns into \u201cjust a little set,\u201d which is code for \u201cyou’re going to hear the same four tracks until sunrise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Survival tip:<\/b> Learn to like deep house or develop a love for earplugs. Bonus: if you can’t sleep, you might as well just start requesting tracks.<\/span><\/p>

7. The Overly Friendly One<\/b><\/h2>

They mean well. They want to cook together. Watch Netflix together. Plan \u201cflatmate bonding nights\u201d and maybe a group trip to Prague. It’s cute\u2026 until you realize you wanted someone to split rent with, not apply for joint custody of a plant.<\/span><\/p>

Survival tip:<\/b> Boundaries are healthy. \u201cMaybe later\u201d will become your favorite phrase. And headphones won’t just be for music, they will be a visual signal that says, \u201cFor the love of God, I need some alone time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Bottom line<\/b><\/h2>

Flat-sharing is a cultural experience, a sociology experiment, and occasionally, a crime documentary waiting to happen. But you’ll also collect stories, inside jokes, and probably a random IKEA fork that isn’t yours.<\/span><\/p>

And if you’re currently in the <\/span>\u201cscrolling through shady Facebook groups at midnight\u201d<\/b> stage of the hunt, let’s make your life easier.<\/span><\/p>

At heyroom, you are guaranteed to find\u00a0 roommates who <\/span>won’t<\/span><\/i> eat your cheese. Our algorithm matches you with people you’ll actually like (or at least tolerate), and flats that don’t look like a horror film set.<\/span><\/p>

Stop gambling with your sanity – meet your dream flatmate today.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because shared living is basically Love Island, except with more passive-aggressive Post-its and IKEA furniture. So you’ve moved to a new city: maybe Berlin for the \u201ctechno and cheap rent\u201d dream (good luck), Barcelona for the sun, or Paris for the croissants and questionable landlords. You found a flatshare, and life seems good\u2026 until you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[464,39],"tags":[473,474,82,97],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wg-tips","category-wg-tipps","tag-communities","tag-types-of-roommates","tag-unterstutzung","tag-wg-leben"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5430,"href":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions\/5430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heyroom.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}