[Sca-cooks] Flatting?- really OT

[chirhart_1]

But marie stay awhile pull a chair up close to the fire .Tell us abit
aboutyou for our files.. chirhart  (Allways wanted to use that frase
.Muuwaahaahaa)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jess Armstrong" <munchkin at paradise.net.nz>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 6:44 PM
Subject: Re:[Sca-cooks] Flatting?- really OT


> >>A "flatmate" is a non-relative/non-partner with whom you share a
> >>dwelling when you go flatting. The flat itself can be pretty much any
> >>sort of dwelling -- I've lived in large houses, small cottages,
multi-unit
> >>buildings and half-houses which all count as flats. It's the fact that
> >>people are flatting in it that makes it a flat, not any features of
design.
> >
> >
> >Interesting - I didn't know that distinction.  I've always merely
> >associated the word "flat" with a single-floor apartment or condo.  So,
> >does "flatting in it" mean renting any kind of domicile, or does it mean
> >sharing any kind of domicile (rented or owned) with a non-related
> >person?  Or a little of both?  What about an owned apartment that you
> >live in by yourself?  Doesn't that count as a flat?
>
> >
> >OK, I give up -- "flatting" is?  Renting?  Not planning to stay
> >long?  Putting up with white walls and somebody else's choice of
> >carpet and appliances?
> >
> >Well, I suspect it's renting, but I'd like to be sure.
>
> Okay I am going to delurk and share the wisdom of a Dunedin scarfie
> (university student in Dunedin). Dunedin is at the bottom of the
> south island of New Zealand where it is cold and damp. Just so you
> know.
>
> Yes, flatting is renting but with certain connotations. When you live
> in a flat you are flatting. Phil has already explained that a flat
> can be any domicile at all. The people you share your flat with are
> your flatmates.
>
> There are age and lifestyle factors that determine whether you are
> "flatting" or  "renting". A couple with children, a young
> professional couple, an elderly couple renting a house for themselves
> would be considered to be "renting" and would probably refer to their
> house as "my house/home".
>
> University students, working people, people who have retained their
> student mindset sharing a rented house with others are considered to
> be "flatting" and would refer to their house as "my flat".
>
> You could own the house and be renting out the other rooms and
> consider yourself to be flatting. You could live by yourself in a
> rented home and if you were of the right mindset you would consider
> yourself to be flatting (for example a student would consider
> themselves to be flatting in this case, an established single person
> in their fifties probably wouldn't). If you lived by yourself in a
> domicile that you owned you would not be flatting.
>
> Flatting does tend to have a sense of impermenance about it. In
> Dunedin it is very common for flats to dissolve at the end of each
> year and everybody goes and finds a new flat with new flatmates.
> There are some cases where a flat will last a number of years because
> all the flatmates get on very well. This is a rare occurence and you
> are very lucky if this happens to you. I have seen cases where all
> the flatmates have uplifted and moved from one house to another. They
> are still the same flat, just in a different location.
>
> For obligatory food content when you are flatting you are likely to
> be served with some of the worst food you have ever eaten. Half
> cooked pasta, unidentifiable meat, mince, mince and more mince. No
> vegetables. No seasoning. The search for a flatmate who can cook is
> long and arduous. Otherwise you cook for yourself, but that isn't
> nearly as much fun as cooking for others.
>
> Okay I am going to go back to lurking. Must stop procrastinating and
> pack my stuff so I can move to my new flat. It has a vegetable garden
> :)
>
> Jess Armstrong (Marie in the SCA)
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