Roommate bio

A roommate is a person with whom one shares a room or rooms. Affectionately known as a roomie. In the UK, roommate normally refers to a person sharing the same room, whereas in the U.S. it typically refers to a person sharing the same house or apartment irrespective of whether they share the same room (bedroom). The latter would usually be referred to as a housemate or flatmate (flat being the common British word for apartment), if they shared the same house or apartment but not the same room. Online resources have helped change the way that people have found a roommate. Services such as Craigslist ( http In most university dormitories, roommates are of the same sex. Cohabitants of apartments are also termed roommates. However, unmarried couples living together are generally not labelled roommates. One of the more difficult tasks for the house office in college is matching roommates for incoming freshmen. Some statistics show that the academic grades, study style, social behavior and personality of one roommate will affect the other roommate's academic performance. In Japan, people rarely live with roommates; perhaps given that most houses there are not designed to be shared by strangers. Roommates are a fairly common point of reference in Western culture, especially in North America. Therefore, many novels, movies, plays, and television programs employ roommates as a basic principle or a plot device.

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