Corso Vercelli, Milano This big apartment is composed by 5 rooms, a huge corridor, two bathrooms and the kitchen. Each room is rented by someone for a minimum of one month. In this period the people living there are: - Elly, a friend of mine. She is 30 years old and she is from Bulgaria. She came in Italy to study in university, but once graduated she never wanted to go back to her country. Now she works as a promoter and hostess for events. She like to dance and she is very strict aboud house issues such as throwing away garbage and making noise during night hours. - Katy, she is 22 years old from Canada. She doing her erasmus year in Milan, she goes to a lot of parties and knows a lot of people. She is friendly and talks a lot. - Caroline is 24 years old from France. She’s doing her master in web design. - Till is 28 years old and comes from Germany. He works and is quite never at home, when he comes back, he never talk to anyone and stays always in his room. - Irene and Giacomo are the couple, she’s 25 years old and he is 24. They both come from Firenze. She is an actress and a singer and goes to auditions. He goes to university and when he’s at home is always in the kitchen. He is a polite person but not so friendly. The main issues As there are six people living together for the first time and not knowing each other before, there are some cohabitation problems in the house.
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1 - first of all, there is a lack of “social space”: in the house was not desing a living room. The owner of the flat just put a sofa and an armchair in the corner of the corridor. Nobody use that place as they prefer being comfortable in their room instead of an old and worn sofa. 2 - there are only two small bathrooms for six people and only one washing machine so they have to arrange shifts to wash their clothes. And most of all, the entrances of the bathrooms face some bedrooms, so as someone wants to take a shower in the late evening, it bores the inhabitants near the bathrooms.
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3 - the kitchen is the main issue. It’s not big enough to host 6 people at the same time and it has only one fire. It is always a mess as nobody wants to clean others’ stuff. 4 - they collect the garbage in the balcony, but noone wants to throw it away. It is such a mess that you can’t even put a foot outside to see what is there.
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Type C Adults + Adults
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