We’re respectful, easygoing, friendly people. My fiancée (childcare) and I (consultant) have taken a decision that we’d rather house share with a view to saving a deposit sooner, than try our luck getting our own rental. We’ve done the housemate thing for 3.5 of the 5 years we lived in Singapore and we consider ourselves lucky to have lived with (most of 😉) the people we did, and are still in touch to this day with many.