Find apartment-mates of the opposite sex

时间：2007-05-14 01:16:33

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Chinanews, Beijing, May 12 - There are millions of shifting population in big cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in China, most of whom stay in rented apartments. However, expensive rents usually force two or more of them to share an apartment. Interestingly, it has become fashionable for young people to share apartments with an apartment-mate of the opposite sex.

 

Our reporter has logged on several online forums1 where people post solicitations for apartment-mates, finding that only 10% of them wish to share their apartment with someone of the same sex.

 

Mostly, well-educated young men (82% of them under 32) with no girlfriends would like to share their apartments with young women. Statistics also show that 72% of them have no intention to buy houses in the next 3 years.

 

However, young women don't care much about the gender2 of their future apartment-mates, though quite a lot of them would like to have male apartment-mates. "I have a bad temper, thus I often quarrel with girls, but boys are more tolerant. Besides, sharing an apartment with a man will give me a strong sense of security," said Li, a girl who wishes to rent a room in the Chaoyang District of Beijing.

 
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1 forums 68daf8bdc8755fe8f4859024b3054fb8     
讨论会； 座谈会； 广播专题讲话节目； 集会的公共场所( forum的名词复数 )； 论坛，讨论会，专题讨论节目； 法庭
参考例句：
  • A few of the forums were being closely monitored by the administrators. 有些论坛被管理员严密监控。
  • It can cast a dark cloud over these forums. 它将是的论坛上空布满乌云。
2 gender slSyD     
n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性
参考例句：
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

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