I had one wfh day in the before times and it was a pain to arrange. I work in an office in Higher Ed. Now it’s the reverse, one day in the office. It would be different if I was a new hire.

That's insane.

So it was sort of a thing! Tbh, even just 1 WFH day makes a huge difference. I wanna live with my parents until I start making real money, which would be at least 1-2 yrs post grad. My commute , by train, could be upwards of an hr, but just one day WHF would break that up, you know?

This guy is spot on. It seems sketchy to get a roommate on Reddit but fb and Craigslist were filled with scams when I was searching for roommates. Posted on r/bostonhousing, had a few people dm me, we set up zoom interviews and the one I went with was a gem 10/10 recommend

Design/UX in tech, I would do maybe one day at home max, pre-Covid. Often not even that.

Folks in our office with kids and/or long commutes would do two or more days at home pretty regularly though, and it wasn’t a big deal. There were always a couple people fully remote, usually high skilled individual contributors who could ask for something like that and be trusted with it.

People with very long commutes (Newburyport, Worcester, NH/ME) would work from the train too and count that as part of their day.

i know when i was looking in boston in 2019/early 2020 (IT), everything i saw in boston was full on site with no remote option.

that commute was a total deal breaker (especially in an industry that realistically should be AT LEAST 50% wfh).

I post my open rooms through Facebook. Always get hundreds of hits. Make sure your post is friendly and personable and people will come. I repeat this process every year almost

Feel free to join the Boston meets Housing Discord, if you haven’t already. You can post in the looking-for-roommate channel and find others looking for roommates around Boston.

https://discord.gg/SuEr4eERZR

You jumped to some extreme conclusions here.

Wanting to live with someone purposely on the same schedule or purposely on a shifted schedule both have to do with job class.

Same if you care about if they will be working from home or not. Having someone around literally all the time can be really great or really awful depending on your personality

Filtering out students or non students is also extremely reasonable and is related to job class (full time/part time)

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Anywhere. Just make sure if the drain says "No Dumping, Drains to Harbor" you only use that one if you have go #1.

Harder than it used to be

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Do you already live here? Ask your friends. Among my friend group like five people are already looking for roommates.

I think it’s more likely the poster was asking for someone who makes enough money that they don’t have to worry about them paying their part of the rent and perhaps aren’t on such an odd schedule that there becomes the potential for interpersonal issues.

Fb marketplace

I’ve used tinder to find roommates before open up to both boys and girls. Just message people that you are not really looking to date but looking for cool ass roommates and ask if they have a room that needs rent. I looked at a couple places doing this.

Just gotta be careful of weirdos.

if you're downtown, not unusual to just urinate wherever you want

Have you tried friends, co-workers or college or high school Alumni groups for where you went to school?

no brokers are a fuckin scam. don't use them or perpetuate the system of a glorified email writers taking a month of rent from students who dont know better.

Won't be a quick fix, but search for a Boston based Discord server (I'm sure there's plenty out there, bonus if it focuses on something you're interested in). Then just start talking with people without much effort and see if something clicks with someone.

Lol. Can't argue with that.

Hotel lobbies - just walk fast and with confidence - keeping your eyes on the restroom sign.

Yellow Pages

Is there a Buy Nothing page in your town? People use the one where I am for things they need to borrow (in addition to passing things along)- maybe you could ask on there if someone has one they could lend you for a few nights?