We would name the spiders that collected in the corners and one time, a weta fell on my flatmate’s head in the middle of the night. It was an easy, breezy, million-dollar villa in Grey Lynn and I say easy and breezy because it was absolutely f-king freezing, got no indoor sunlight and the toilet was an upgraded outhouse with a window that was permanently open. The first flat I moved into was with my long-term couple friends, taking pity on the fact that I was baby human (27) who immediately locked us out of the house within an hour of moving in. Or the daily one: if there are three people in the house but only one shower, who gets to work by 8.30am?
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Flatmate life is like a series of bad maths equations: if there are four people in the flat but only one person does the dishes, how long until the ants come in? If the landlord refuses to acknowledge your existence when the black mould takes up 20% of a room but also wants to hike your rent up 40%, who will call the Citizen’s Advice Bureau first? Or the fact that nobody outside of the Clifton family appears to call a cosmetic bag “a sponge bag.”īut it’s also where you learn to become an adult in terms of managing issues.
You learn what weird tricks or traits were a ‘family only thing’, like the first time I cut a capsicum and a friend gasped – gasped!! – at how I was doing it.
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You have to do the rubbish, you have to master the cleaning, you have to cook for yourself.įlatting is where you learn how to become the adult in the room Emma Clifton looks back at her own flatting love stories.ĭespite the fact that my 20s included maybe eight nights ‘on the town’, I – like so many others – have been glued to the TVNZ+ series Everything I Know About Love and plunged back into the “golden, grubby time of life” that is your Roaring 20s.īut while the series, based on the best-selling memoir by UK journalist Dolly Alderton, is being correctly celebrated for its portrayal of friendship, the real selling point for me has been the way it shows flatting.įlatting is one of the best and weirdest rites of passage that come with being a human, because it is where you learn how to become the adult in the room.
In the new show, Everything I Know About Love, there’s a secondary love story to the main plot and it’s about what a good flat – and a great group of flatmates – can mean to your life.
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