Seeking Housemates

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

Two rooms available to rent in beautiful, large, single-family,
four-bedroom house, one in July and one in September. Rent per room is
$600 plus utilities (approx. $100/mo). The first floor is entirely
common space, including a living room, dining room, and eat-in
kitchen. There are two bathrooms, a porch, a dishwasher, and free
laundry in the house. We come equipped with two cats, a Tivo, and
wireless, broadband internet. The rooms are larger than most bedrooms
in the area, and have fully-operational ceiling fans. Ample off-street
parking is included. The house comes with a private, fenced yard. We
are 15 minutes walk to davis, 90 seconds drive to I-93, and four
blocks to Tufts.

Seeking substance-free, lifestyle-friendly professionals or graduate
students; preference to people interested in renting for more than one
year.

Comment or email courtney.housing@gmail.com.

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Comments

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

substance-free, lifestyle-friendly

Ummm...Perhaps I became an ancient curmudgeon at some point.

But unless you can be certain that everybody else shares what you mean by "substance" and "lifestyle", you might want to be a little more specific. Bondage in the living room, no beer?

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Well, duh. :P

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to be specific with people who are interested, but I don't actually want to broadcast details across the internet for everyone who lives in my house.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Fair enough; that's a reasonable concern and I can certainly understand it.
I guess I've become so used to seeing such amusingly specific roommate ads ("must be queer/bi/poly friendly, no illegal drugs, tobacco okay on the back porch, antidepressants taken as a matter of course) that yours stood out for its seeming vagueness!

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. I was pretty sure what was meant in general by "substance-free" though I think it's a stupid sounding phrase, but although I had some sense of a few things that might be meant by "lifestyle" it was more puzzling than anything else. (And is also a euphemism I don't particularly like, though I've got nothing against any of the various things it's most likely to mean.)

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was mostly the "lifestyle-friendly" which amused me.

I'm sure that for members of The Lifestyle, that particular Lifestyle is clearly the only Lifestyle in existence. No need to specify if it's the macrobiotic-vegetarian lifestyle, the Polyamorous-bisexual Lifestyle, the Christian-evangelical-heterosexual-monogamous Lifestyle, the Gorian-submission Lifestyle or the Let's-wear-black-to-Manray-on-Friday-and-dance-like-maniacs Lifestyle.

As for the other parameter, I'm looking forward to watching the season finale of "Desperate Housewives" tonight. That's pretty much substance-free.