<p>From what ya’ll have seen is a good idea to date a floormate? please explian your answer…</p>
<p>There have been threads on this before. The standard answer you’ll get is ‘don’t date people who live on your floor because you’ll see them all the time and if things go badly it will be awkward’. </p>
<p>My entire sophomore class is 71 students (entire school = 300 students) so if we wanted to avoid that sort of awkwardness we would have to never date within our school. </p>
<p>People date anyway, and are generally mature enough to deal.</p>
<p>The only thing I’d say is they if things end… be rational. Make the boundaries clear. End on good terms. Don’t get angry. Don’t get mean. Talk about the fact that you’re going to see them everyday and how you want the social day to day relationship to work.</p>
<p>Good grief, beck86nj, you could fit your whole school in what, one or two dorms? 
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<p>A lot of people have done that here (within the dorm, not nec. on same floor). Personally, I’m seeing someone on the floor above me. It’s convenient, but not irritatingly so, even if (or when, probably) it breaks up.</p>
<p>It always happens, but it’s rarely a good idea.</p>
<p>In addition to the awkwardness factor when you’re walking past your ex five times a day, don’t forget that you’ll know when they’ve moved on, too: My next-door neighbor dated a guy in our suite (co-ed suite, obviously) for about a year, then they broke up. A week later, there was another girl brushing her teeth with us in the morning. Awkward, not just for my neighbor (she was devastated), but for the rest of the suite, who all felt caught in the middle.</p>
<p>2 dorms. The second one just opened this year.</p>
<p>It’s weird trying to get into the habit of calling them ‘east hall’ and ‘west hall’ instead of just saying ‘the res hall’.</p>
<p>Eh who cares just go for it if it feels right.</p>
<p>At my school it is referred to as “hallcest”. And very frowned upon. Freshmen year I was hooking up with a guy from my floor, and although things faded on very good terms, it was severely uncomfortable. Now, three years later, we still avoid eachother.</p>
<p>If you think this is someone you could really have a relationship with, take it slow. Feel it out, and really make sure you like eachother enough to sacrifice your comfort if something does go awry. If you just have a crush or want to hookup, I’d recommend moving on and finding someone else… in another dorm.</p>
<p>I don’t see why people place so many restrictions on themselves when it comes to these things. Just do it if it seems right you know? And stop worrying so much about what other people would think. It doesn’t matter what they think.</p>
<p>And that’s why our dorms are co-ed by floor, so dating floormates is very, very rare.</p>
<p>I’m sure it could work, just make sure if/when the relationship ends, you end on good terms.</p>
<p>It is possible to end on good terms. If the relationship is more of a friendship than anything else, it’ll probably end with mutual understanding. And I don’t see my floormates that much, most days just in passing, so it can’t be THAT uncomfortable.</p>
<p>I thought that floors where generally single sex?</p>
<p>Not all schools/dorms. I think it varies: sometimes dorms are single-sex, sometimes floors are single-sex, and sometimes everything’s co-ed. At Duke, one end of the hall is male, and the other end is female. Single-sex bathrooms at either end of the hall.</p>
<p>Our floors aren’t single-sex, but we have bathrooms in each double so it isn’t at all weird or anything.</p>
<p>Our buildings are co-ed, but single sex by floor.</p>
<p>I dated the boy across the hall at Columbia. Last month we celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary.</p>
<p>Touching mom55…:)</p>
<p>so mom55 is proof that “hallcest” never works out.</p>
<p>Well, nobody’s saying it can’t work out. (I will note here that I’m going to marry the boy from 10 floors down in the same dorm. The dormcest thing is terribly convenient.)</p>
<p>But when you think about the percentage of people that you date that you end up marrying versus the percentage of people that you date that you don’t end up marrying, I think it’s right to be a little hesitant about starting a relationship with someone who lives very close to you. Not to say you shouldn’t do it, just that you should be very cautious.</p>