I think BelLiving is an amazing idea and I´m thrilled to have been spending time with Josefin who is more than 50 years younger than me.

However I now consider her becoming a very close friend. I´m so pleased!

Getting an inherent in my home created completely new values. For me, it is valuable to get a little extra carrying help with the grocery shopping and the dog walk.

To then be able to help the inherent back with a housing solution also feels incredibly valuable.

Our team first met eachother as total strangers on an innovation contest where we should find a solution for elderly.

The very next day we met again for starting up BeLiving. A good idea that bring people together and turn strangers into a commited team.

I needed a temporary living in Stockholm at a reasonable price as I´m saving for studies in United States.

Beliving suited me perfect as I got paid for services making the total cost lower. It was actually very nice to live with an elderly. Kärstin is now my bonus-grand-mother 🙂

Living together with Adrian gave me soo much. From the start it was economical reasons for getting an extra income for renting out a room.

However, if someone should ask me today, I would say the unexpected friendship is the main reason for me to to find a new co-liver now when Adrian left for his next step in life.

I needed accommodation due to my studies in Stockholm. Belivings arrangement was perfect for me with a limited budget.

What I realized about living with Kersti is that age is just a number. It was so grate to have dayly access to Kerstis kindness and life experience.

Maybe she will not hang out with me and my friends at the pub, but she will always be a dear friend.

Sometimes we forget what really brings joy and value in to our lives. For me the simple sound of the key in the lock has now become one of my favorit sounds.

I recommend everyone to find company on a daily basis regardless if you spend it with Fredrika, 23 years as I did or you find people in same age. Why live alone when we don´t have to?

We are living in a challeging time when we need to find new solution for both people and planet.

If Beliving can be a solution for people to connect and interact in living situation, I beleive we together with other similar ideas will create a better and more sustainable tomorrow.

For me this was the perfect set-up living with Lars. For the first I could combine living with services and by that had a reasonable living cost.

But the biggest win was the opportunity to spend time with an elderly having a great time while learning Swedish as a bonus.

Housing shortages and how we reach sustainable cities are questions of the future.

There´s no need to build student housing when there are already homes where the student can contribute to becoming part of social responsibility by helping someone else. We thereby create solutions of the future.

BeLiving can make difference for pretty much anyone, but especially those like me, who live in solitude.

Loneliness is probably a keyword in this type of housing solution, but it does not rule out that people want to live together for other reasons. The reason is everyone´s own.