Singles and roommate - Singles (1992) Discussion

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[–] Frischtom 20 years ago

It's a single unit, that is a one-bedroom apartment.

It just doesn't make sense. And beside, she doesn't a roommate.

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I've known several people who had roommates in 1BR apartments. One person got the bedroom, and the other got the living room. It sounds like a good way to drive each other crazy, but I guess if you're low on money or whatever it would be better than some other possibilities.

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[–] Polkadottybatty 9 years ago

Yep. Especially in big cities with high rents, this is very true. Hell of a way to live (I chose not to do it, myself), but many people who choose to stay/live in a big city must do it.

^*^ PDB ^*^

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[–] maryswake 19 years ago

Wait a second... I thought "singles" referred to the status of the people in the movie- not the actual apartments...? :D

Cheers!

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[–] BitchinCamaro 19 years ago

It's a pun. The apartments are singles, i.e., 1BR, and the movie is essentially about single people who live in the single apartments in the same building.

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[–] Dragonred 19 years ago

The apartments are "singles" because it is a complex for singles only. Like they have adult only complexes. That is why when Linda and Steve get back together at the end and decide to live together, Steve moves OUT of the complex and they show the "singles" vacancy rental sign at the end of the movie.

Also, I've had friends live in a singles complex and have two bedrooms. It is for roommates.

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[–] tatiana22400 18 years ago

Do you mean that one has to move out from the apartments if s/he is not single any more? I live in Spain and I don't know anything about that kind of apartments. I guess that you can live there with your boyfriend/girlfriend if you want to. Isn't it so??

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[–] BitchinCamaro 17 years ago

At universities, there may be housing available for single students, but there are contingencies that allow for couples to live in these apartments, as well. In the USA, including Seattle, it is illegal to prevent someone from living in an apartment based on marital status.

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[–] badponymedicine 13 years ago

Actually, by Washington State housing law, you cannot discriminate based on familial status. You cannot state 'single only' 'no kids' etc. Granted, such discrimination takes place all the time, the landlord just doesn't come out and say, "Sorry, I ain't rentin' to anyone with kids"---he'd get his heinie handed to him in court.

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[–] jefgg 12 years ago

I went out with a woman who had a roommate in her one bedroom apartment. That did not end well.

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[–] beernpizzalover 10 years ago

Just rewatched this last night; I thought Debbie's roommate (Pam) looked like a cute and interesting character. Wish she would have had more screen-time.

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[–] PappaTroll 7 years ago

Yeah, they didn't develop her character much beyond being a bitch. They should have done more with her.
I had a roommate in the '90s too, and we'd rent cheap one-bedroom jobbies. He hated small rooms (he slept on the futon in the big LR), and so I'd get the bedroom. Great deal for me, although we were sometimes mistaken for gay as a result. He also insisted on doing all of our laundry, ironing it, etc. for hours. In exchange, I had to do the dishes (10 minutes of work). Good times.

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