New Yorkers, by definition, live on top of each other, so finding the right roommate is high on the list of important things for every city dweller. Does the potential person like to cook or order take-out every night? Is he or she a homebody or a social butterfly? Perhaps most importantly, is the person neat, or messy??
The kitchen needs to be clean "Having had both, I would 100 percent say obsessively neat roommate. It might be irritating to always have to wash your dishes immediately, but it is way more irritating to want to cook breakfast and have a pile of pots and pans left in the sink from the night before." —Caroline, Astoria (pictured below)