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* "Series/TheRandomYears": three childhoos friends, having graduated college, share a loft in Manhattan's Chinatown.

* "Series/TheRandomYears: three childhoos friends, having graduated college, share a loft in Manhattan's Chinatown.

%%* ''Series/ThreesCompany''

* ''Series/{{Crashing|UK}}'' follows the lives of half a dozen metropolitan twentysomethings. The twist is that it's a {{Reconstruction}} of the financial aspects of this trope. The characters live together on the same floor in a [[NonResidentialResidence disused London hospital]] under a scheme called Property Guardians where tenants pay cheap rent in exchange for acting as sanctioned squatters watching over uninhabited buildings that might otherwise be occupied by unsanctioned squatters or fall prey to vandalism.

This trope seems to have peaked in the 1990s (thanks to the FollowTheLeader trend of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' and ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''), but there are some influential earlier examples and the format has been popular ever since.

There are three to six young people living in an apartment (or separate apartments) in TheCity -- either [[BigApplesauce New York]] or [[CreatorProvincialism the creator's hometown]] -- usually [[FriendsRentControl abusing rent control]], [[ImprobableFoodBudget spending way more money on food and clothes than normal]], [[OneHourWorkWeek going to work for about an hour a season]], and [[GossipyHens talking endlessly about their relationships]]. Said relationships [[FromRoommatesToRomance might even be with each other]]. At least one of them will be gay. At least one more will be in a crappy band. One of them may not be a roommate at all, but their DropInLandlord who's always around.

By far the largest subgenre of SliceOfLife -- especially in webcomics, where it tends to overlap with TwoGamersOnACouch and {{Journal Comic}}s -- and a formidable chunk of {{Sit Com}}s.

Compare to DomCom, which usually stars people living in the suburbs in a later stage of life. Compare/contrast with MonsterRoommate which is its sci-fi/fantasy counterpart. Can overlap with RoommateDrama, if a big part of the show is the clash between the roommates.

* ''Series/{{Crashing|UK}}'' follows the lives of six twenty-somethings neigbors. It's a {{Reconstruction}} of the financial aspects of this trope in that the characters live together on the same floor in a [[NonResidentialResidence disused London hospital]] under a scheme called Property Guardians where tenants pay cheap rent in exchange for watching over uninhabited buildings that might otherwise be occupied by squatters or fall prey to vandalism.

There are three to six young people living in an apartment (or separate apartments) in TheCity -- either [[BigApplesauce New York]] or [[CreatorProvincialism the creator's hometown]] -- usually [[FriendsRentControl abusing rent control]], [[ImprobableFoodBudget spending way more money on food and clothes than normal]], [[OneHourWorkWeek going to work for about an hour a season]], and [[GossipyHens talking endlessly about their relationships]]. At least one of them will be gay. At least one more will be in a crappy band. One of them may not be a roommate at all, but their DropInLandlord who's always around.

* ''ComicStrip/ApartmentThreeG'': The three main characters, Margo, Lu Ann and Tommie are all unmarried women sharing an apartment in New York City. A lot of storylines involve one or more of them finding men to settle down with, going as far as planning a wedding sometimes, but because of StatusQuoIsGod, something always derails it.

* ''Series/{{Crashing|UK}}'' follows the lives of six twenty-somethings neigbors. It's a {{Reconstruction}} of the financial aspects of this trope in that the characters live together on the same floor in a [[NonResidentialResidence disused London hospital]] under a scheme called Property Guardians where tenants pay cheap rent in exchange for watching over uninhabited buildings that might otherwise be occupied by squatters or fall pray to vandalism.

* ''Series/{{Crashing|UK}}'' follows the lives of six twenty-somethings neigbors. It's a {{Reconstruction}} of the financial aspects of this trope in that the characters who live together on the same floor in a [[NonResidentialResidence disused London hospital]] under a scheme called Property Guardians where tenants pay cheap rent in exchange for watching over uninhabited buildings that might otherwise be occupied by squatters or fall pray to vandalism.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' has a group of six best friends, three young women and three young men. Rachel moves in with Monica who lives across the hall from Joey and Chandler. They also hang out with Phoebe who lives with her grandma and Monica's divorced brother Ross. Throughout the years they move sometimes, and the roommate sets were sometimes mixed during different seasons. The series finale has Phoebe {{lampshade|Hanging}} how every one of the main characters had lived in Monica's apartment at one point or the other in the series' run. When Ross points out that he hadn't, Monica reminds him of an occasion [[NoodleIncident in college, well before the series started]], where Ross lived in the apartment with their grandmother for a summer while he was trying to become a dancer.