Roommate conflicts are common in shared living spaces and can stem from a number of factors, including differences in lifestyle, communication styles and personal habits. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the life experiences of students who live or have lived with roommates in student dormitories or student apartments, with special emphasis on conflicts and problems that arise in a shared household. A qualitative method consisting of 8 semi-structured interviews was used in order to gain a deeper insight into the research topic. The results of this research first show that after a bad experience of living with an unknown person, students prefer to live with a person they already know, with whom they share certain similarities and interests. Furthermore, the decision to move out most often occurs due to the accumulation of smaller problems until one becomes critical. A roommate's sense of immaturity can lead to a lack of communication, where silence takes the main role and the problem cannot be solved concretely, and the only way out becomes the moving of one of the roommates. The loss of a sense of privacy and control over one's private space can increase when the roommate starts bringing in unknown people, i.e. his friends or partners, and their presence can confuse others and create a feeling of discomfort. In the end, after moving out and changing roommates, students feel much relieved and conclude that such a problematic experience has taught them to choose roommates more carefully in the future.