My Student Days and Shared Flat Experience Turned Me into a Genocidal Lunatic

Sharing accommodation can become a terrible experience if your flatmates do not respect basic rules of coexistence and hygiene.

## The Hell of Sharing a Flat in Barcelona

The experience of sharing accommodation, especially during university life, can be an absolute ordeal. In **Barcelona**, between **2013** and **2014**, a student lived through a nightmare in a shared flat. Cohabitation became unsustainable due to the lack of hygiene and the problematic attitudes of his housemates. The situation reached a point where the desire to escape that environment became an urgent necessity.

## Unhygienic and Conflictual Flatmates

One of the roommates, who had **autism**, maintained almost no contact and left common areas, especially the bathrooms, in a deplorable state, imbued with unpleasant odors. The lack of initiative to improve coexistence or maintain cleanliness made every day harder. Added to this was another roommate, described as a "scoundrel," who, while occasionally contributing plans and money, was destructive with the belongings, lacked decorum regarding his personal habits, and stole food.

## The Search for an Exit

The frustration and disgust the student felt about this situation led him to spend time outside the flat, watching couples in parks with envy. His wish was to share his life with someone who offered an alternative to the toxic coexistence, one that allowed him to distance himself from the family dynamic and the flat environment. The pressure for one of the roommates to pay the final month's rent, thus avoiding a possible departure without paying, demonstrated the complexity of the relationships that had formed.