This Life was a 90s TV programme based on a group of law students sharing a house in London. Bittersweet drama full of shocking story lines and compulsive viewing. It was a situation you could relate your life to, and to an extent, wanted to be a part of.

Sharing a house was something you did at University. Cramming a weeks shopping into one half of a shelf in a fridge, contending with dominant egos and having food regularly pilfered – I do not miss. Maybe you extended this period whilst you started your career, as did This Life, until the defining moment that you could afford your own place, your own space and shut the door on the world. Never go back to sharing a space again – oh wait, you then get hooked up with a significant other.

The trend over the last few decades has been for more and more people to live alone. Once upon a day you lived at home with your parents and then got married. Going from childhood bedroom to marital bed over night. What a shock that was to the system. The only people who lived in shared houses were students, spinsters and cranky old landlords – see Rising Damp.

With the rise of cost of living over the last few years and having that dream of getting on the property ladder snatched from our fingers by economics out of our control many people are now having to face the question of – roommate? Surely that has to be better than living with your parents until you are 40 something?

All I can say is don’t watch Single White Female before you place your ad. Or maybe you should?

So, Do You Need a Roommate infographic – is an overview of the cost of buying/renting around the world. Painting a grim picture for the prospects of Millenials who can’t get ahead in property. In London the price-to-income ratio for buying property is 33.5x – hey, New York are practically giving it away at 21.6x.

The graphic delivers information in a clean and structured manner. Weaving a story down the page of the grim reality many face when trying to buy a property. Leading to the sign off – ‘have you found a roommate yet?’

Overall the design is clean and key information is represented by graphs and icons. A solid piece of content to a relevant market from Liberty Village Real Estate – a 7 out of 10.