WOMAN NOT HAPPY AT SHARING ROOM WITH SISTER, ASKS “IS IT COMMON FOR ADULTS TO SHARE ROOM”

How common is it for adult siblings to share the same room in SG?

My sister (25F) and I (21F) have been made to share the same 12 square metre room ever since we could remember because we don’t have enough space in our flat.

Recently my sister moved to the UK for her studies and began living on her own and I got to have the room to myself.

Now that she is coming back, our mom is making us share the same room again even though my sis and I have found an arrangement so that she could move in with our uncle (who lives alone and has vacant rooms) and have a room to herself, quoting that “I had to share a room and the generations before us had to so why can’t you.”

She was married at 25 and moved out around then with our dad. She also said that she expects us to only move out when we married (we’re both single atm) or reach 35. How common is it really for adult siblings to still share a room in their mid 20s.

Edit: To questions about the arrangement, my sis is willing to pay rent and my uncle is also okay for her to stay.

EDIT 2: A lot of people are saying that I’m evicting my sister but she is more than happy to move out. She has the facilities to move out but our parents are not willing to let her, and for us to have our own separate rooms.

Netizens’ comments

1. I don’t think it’s abnormal if there’s no space… but I also think it’s very normal for single young people in that situation to try and find alternative accommodation if they can afford it.
   If your uncle has vacant rooms and is okay with your sister taking a room, I don’t see an issue… unless your mother thinks it’s inappropriate for a niece to stay with her single uncle
2. common. my bf (25M) shares a room with his sisters (27F and 23F) bc they live in a 3R HDB flat, 1 for the parents and 1 for them. they have partitions so in a way still have privacy.
3. I (24F) am still sharing the bedroom with my 2 sisters (26F & 18F)
   Not everyone is lucky (and rich) enough to own a room to themselves and there’s barely enough space for anything. But that’s the way of life.
4. Start staging fights in the middle of the night and scream at each other at the top of your voices. Make it so loud that everyone cannot sleep. Then, propose moving out again.