I have been sharing house with a roommate for years now (in Portugal), and I prefer it to living alone. Even with a girlfriend, I highly prefer to live in a house with more people.

I come from a "big" family, and I am used to movement where I live. And living alone or just with one person, makes my energy go down.

Now that I plan on moving to Paraguay, I am looking for co-living options or someone to rent place with. Different people have different preferred ways of living.

For me, it's cheaper, and I am happier, when I share place with other people. Also, you get to learn from others, have people to talk with, at the expense of a bit of privacy. But depending on the roommates you choose the privacy thing is usually not an issue.

Living with roommates is not the same thing as an SRO. While both meet the strict definition of "living with roommates", one of these situations you get pick who you live with (or at least ideologically aligned), in the other you don't.

Two friends sharing a lovely home is not the same thing as twenty random crackheads living in a trap house.