'Lives Alone'

While I have had roommates at several points in my life, i have learned that--living situation-wise--i work best alone (or with some yet-to-be-found perfect roommate).

The reasons i do not work well with a roommate fall into four general groups, revolving around my belief that one's home should be the place in which one feels the most comfortable, and can do the things that should not necessarily be done around other people--things that shouldn't have to be explained aloud.

For me, the three key groups are easily identified with the three F-Words:

• Food
• Finances
• Filth

Food
One thing i wouldn't necessarily do around other people, for instance would be to assemble a meal consisting of a small dish of lima beans, three pieces of turkey rolled into 'cigars' (which would be a familiar lunchmeat term if you had ever ordered a deli-tray) and seven blueberries arranged into a smiley face (or frowny face depending on the kind of day i had). I would also not eat only a bowl of green beans, or a quantity of macaroni and cheese so obscene it could only be eaten out of a mixing bowl.
Finances
I will do everything possible to reduce the group of individuals with knowlege of my finances to the smallest size possible. Just because money is weird. And roommates have to talk about that stuff, or uncomfortably tiptoe around it.
Filth
People, even unmessy people, tend to be a bit messier when no one is watching. And when they clean, they like to clean because THEY want to clean, not because they're paranoid about their roommate thinking they're slovenly.