Twitter User Details Her Experience Trying To Rent Apartments In India As A Single Woman

As a woman who has been looking to move out for almost a decade, I have heard a lot of “opposition” from the people around me regarding this very ‘selfish’ wish of mine. And as I am an only child, you can imagine all the ways the people around me have tried to shame me into wanting to stay with my parents. I have had people shame me into staying home to “support” my ageing parents to tell me about all the dangers of living by yourself as a woman as if I don’t know them already. However, regardless of all these “warnings” I still plan to move out for reasons I choose not to disclose. But I cannot even imagine how hard it is for the women already living by themselves to “justify” why they want to live away from their families and get people to rent apartments to them.
So when Twitter user Karnika Kohli tweeted about her experience with house hunting and all the absurd things she has heard landlords say, I could not help but talk about it. So let’s check out what are the pains and perils of being a single woman in India wanting to live by herself,

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few things I was asked by landlords in the last 2 days while house hunting:

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— Karnika (@KarnikaKohli) May 10, 2022

1) isn't it difficult for you to manage because you are unmarried?

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— Karnika (@KarnikaKohli) May 10, 2022

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2) I want to talk to your father first. (I am 31 btw and have been financially independent for a decade)

3/n pic.twitter.com/84iQKz9jTo

— Karnika (@KarnikaKohli) May 10, 2022

3) why do you work for places like scroll and wire?

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— Karnika (@KarnikaKohli) May 10, 2022

4) why dont you live with your parents? unko bura lagta hoga na?

5/n pic.twitter.com/6rqMbbLe4K

— Karnika (@KarnikaKohli) May 10, 2022

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5) why dont you want to get married? we will give to couple

6/n pic.twitter.com/IFrobUkAH9

— Karnika (@KarnikaKohli) May 10, 2022

6) I would never let my daughter live on her own

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— Karnika (@KarnikaKohli) May 10, 2022

will add more as this nightmare continues

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— Karnika (@KarnikaKohli) May 10, 2022

Another one.

I clearly have no value unless I can get a man to live with me. pic.twitter.com/pp5UIEnsQh

— Karnika (@KarnikaKohli) May 10, 2022

While these tweets are genuinely funny and the gifs made me laugh, it is a shame that a woman wanting to stay independently is scrutinized so much. If a woman chooses to stay alone, I don’t think she needs to explain it to anyone but herself.

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