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@GalacticTurtle @EmmyNoether Well, see here’s the thing. I don’t like living with people. And I’m not particularly keen on building/sharing a life with people either.

That also applies to homes for multiple people.
There are very few people indeed in this world whom I like enough to actively want to live with them, shared values and expectations or not.* By the time I realised these things I was fully expecting to never live with anyone, it just happened I came across someone whom I tolerate enough that I can live with him, and circumstances were such that it was either living together or parting for good.
As things are, the idea of living in a shared residence with a bunch of other people sounds to me like an absolute nightmare. It would make absolutely no difference if that was a women’s residence.

So basically in order to want to live with someone, that person has to hit all the three factors; friend, lover AND partner. If any of those are missing, I have no interest in living with someone as long as I have a reasonable choice.

*I’ve lived with flatmates in the past, because that made economical sense at the time. But whether I became friends with them or just happened to partially occupy the same flat as they did, depended entirely on the person. It was fine at the time, but I always expected it to be a temporary solution and I would never choose it as a permanent arrangement, as long as I had a choice.