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HOUSING & DORMSPublicerat av hagwon_refugee 🇮🇩 Indonesia · för 5 h sedan
Private bathroom vs shared — worth 100k a month?
the shared-bathroom rooms are noticeably cheaper. there are apparently 4 bathrooms for about 20 rooms.
is shared actually a problem in practice or is it fine and i'm being precious about it
is shared actually a problem in practice or is it fine and i'm being precious about it
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You are not being precious. This is the second most common regret after the window, and 4 bathrooms for 20 rooms is a ratio worth thinking about carefully.
What shared actually means day to day:
- Morning is the pinch point. Twenty people, most of whom need to leave between 08:00 and 09:00, and four bathrooms. Whether that is fine or miserable depends almost entirely on how well the building is run and cleaned.
- You carry your toiletries and towel down a corridor every time.
- You cannot leave anything in there.
- Cleanliness is the variable. A well-managed building cleans daily and it is genuinely fine. A badly managed one is the thing that makes people move out.
How to find out which one you are looking at, and this is the concrete advice: **visit at 08:00**. Not at 2pm when it has just been cleaned. The morning state of a shared bathroom in a goshiwon tells you everything about how the building is run, and it takes ten minutes to check.
The money: 100,000 a month is 1,000,000 over ten months. Against a daily friction you hit twice a day, every day, for ten months — most students who have lived both ways say pay it.
Where shared is genuinely fine: newer buildings with a better ratio (one bathroom per three or four rooms), buildings where most residents are exam students on irregular schedules rather than everyone leaving at 08:30, and if your own schedule is off-peak.
If the budget is tight and you have to pick one upgrade, take the window over the private bathroom. But if you can afford both, this is the second one to buy.
What shared actually means day to day:
- Morning is the pinch point. Twenty people, most of whom need to leave between 08:00 and 09:00, and four bathrooms. Whether that is fine or miserable depends almost entirely on how well the building is run and cleaned.
- You carry your toiletries and towel down a corridor every time.
- You cannot leave anything in there.
- Cleanliness is the variable. A well-managed building cleans daily and it is genuinely fine. A badly managed one is the thing that makes people move out.
How to find out which one you are looking at, and this is the concrete advice: **visit at 08:00**. Not at 2pm when it has just been cleaned. The morning state of a shared bathroom in a goshiwon tells you everything about how the building is run, and it takes ten minutes to check.
The money: 100,000 a month is 1,000,000 over ten months. Against a daily friction you hit twice a day, every day, for ten months — most students who have lived both ways say pay it.
Where shared is genuinely fine: newer buildings with a better ratio (one bathroom per three or four rooms), buildings where most residents are exam students on irregular schedules rather than everyone leaving at 08:30, and if your own schedule is off-peak.
If the budget is tight and you have to pick one upgrade, take the window over the private bathroom. But if you can afford both, this is the second one to buy.
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You are not being precious. This is the second most common regret after the window, and 4 bathrooms for 20 rooms is a ratio worth thinking about carefully.
What shared actually means day to day:
- Morning is the pinch point. Twenty people, most of whom need to leave between 08:00 and 09:00, and four bathrooms. Whether that is fine or miserable depends almost entirely on how well the building is run and cleaned.
- You carry your toiletries and towel down a corridor every time.
- You cannot leave anything in there.
- Cleanliness is the variable. A well-managed building cleans daily and it is genuinely fine. A badly managed one is the thing that makes people move out.
How to find out which one you are looking at, and this is the concrete advice: **visit at 08:00**. Not at 2pm when it has just been cleaned. The morning state of a shared bathroom in a goshiwon tells you everything about how the building is run, and it takes ten minutes to check.
The money: 100,000 a month is 1,000,000 over ten months. Against a daily friction you hit twice a day, every day, for ten months — most students who have lived both ways say pay it.
Where shared is genuinely fine: newer buildings with a better ratio (one bathroom per three or four rooms), buildings where most residents are exam students on irregular schedules rather than everyone leaving at 08:30, and if your own schedule is off-peak.
If the budget is tight and you have to pick one upgrade, take the window over the private bathroom. But if you can afford both, this is the second one to buy.
What shared actually means day to day:
- Morning is the pinch point. Twenty people, most of whom need to leave between 08:00 and 09:00, and four bathrooms. Whether that is fine or miserable depends almost entirely on how well the building is run and cleaned.
- You carry your toiletries and towel down a corridor every time.
- You cannot leave anything in there.
- Cleanliness is the variable. A well-managed building cleans daily and it is genuinely fine. A badly managed one is the thing that makes people move out.
How to find out which one you are looking at, and this is the concrete advice: **visit at 08:00**. Not at 2pm when it has just been cleaned. The morning state of a shared bathroom in a goshiwon tells you everything about how the building is run, and it takes ten minutes to check.
The money: 100,000 a month is 1,000,000 over ten months. Against a daily friction you hit twice a day, every day, for ten months — most students who have lived both ways say pay it.
Where shared is genuinely fine: newer buildings with a better ratio (one bathroom per three or four rooms), buildings where most residents are exam students on irregular schedules rather than everyone leaving at 08:30, and if your own schedule is off-peak.
If the budget is tight and you have to pick one upgrade, take the window over the private bathroom. But if you can afford both, this is the second one to buy.
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visit at 8am. i cannot stress this enough. the same bathroom at 2pm and at 8am are different places and only one of them is the one you'll be using
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going to ask for an early viewing then. good call
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if they won't let you view in the morning that's also information
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shared for 4 months, private after. the private bathroom was the single biggest quality of life jump of my whole year. bigger than the room size
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same. you don't realise how much the corridor walk with your towel wears on you until it stops
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4 bathrooms for 20 rooms is workable IF the schedules are spread. in a building full of language students who all start at 9 it is not
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how often they clean is the whole thing. ask 화장실 청소 매일 해요? if the answer is vague, that's your answer
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if you can only afford one upgrade take the window. but this is the clear second
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