Watching several dateing sites I am seeing a trend where people are looking on dateing sites not just for dates but houseing. Does this seem like a dangerous way to find a room mate or does it present a threat for daters? Opinions? This does not seem to be and age specific thing. Aren't there already room mate services/sites? Don't people plan ahead or live with family anymore?

well if you go on a dating site the people there are most likely single and horny.
you can get laid and a new place to stay.

I haven't seen anything like that actually. Not looking to move in with strangers either. Creepy alert.

I find ot hard to believe most people are ready to trade their houseing situation for a date or a fast intimate encounter.

Yea me too. I would not want to date someone that was homeless or near homeless and I am generally an empathetic person when it comes to homeless issues.

Me too but there's a fine line between roomies, desperation and gold digging.

That's one of the most dangerous things any one can do.

I tend to think there is a very wide line between someone wanting to carry their own weight as a room mate and someone looking to pimp themself out as a date.

I wonder how desperate a person would have to be for a date to fall for that kind of arrangement. I would show someone the door FAST.

For that matter I am not bringing dates into my home on a casual basis anyway so I guess I don't get this short or long term "hosting" for a date.

I have even dated people who commuted long distances without being and extension for Holiday Inn.

Yea it is social work one-o-one you never bring home your work. Would get you terminated from most agencies immediately.

And with many robberies proveing out to be related to a person the victim "knows" I would think it is a good way for someone to get ripped of.

I don't think many guys want to admit when they get assaulted but read more than one casefile when home invasions occured it was a "date" that pointed out the person to hit and when.

No different than craigslist I would think...And a ton of people use that and don't die.

Honestly...You're blowing something up that has little to nothing to do with you, and accounts, statistically, for a fraction of crimes committed in personal homes...Which, statistically, is usually family.

HUH?

Not familiar with Craigs list so would be a streach for me to comment on that. Only expossure I have to Craig list was a few garage sales that looked like fronts for stolen stuff or disgruntled landlords trying to get the stuff cleaned up after and eviction or abandonment.

Don't follow the "die" comment.

I am not impressed witht he statistic that it is usually family since that could be a catch all for cases not deemed "important' enough to actually spend the time or money to solve.

Yeah. Dating and housing are two totally different things. I don't in any way condone taking in strangers. You never know where they've been. If your family and friends visit, they'd be like "Who is that?".

Creepy.

Tons of people use craigslist and do not die, same concept as shoppin' on a datin' site for a roommate, and you can find dates on craigslist as well through personals.

Doesn't really matter if the statistics impress you or not, they are what they are and it isn't changing on account of your suspicion.

i have yet to see the profile headline...

"let's shack up"

I don't know, there are all different reasons to move in with someone, if both people know and are happy with it I don't see a problem.
Sometimes people just want a companion, someone else there. It's not really a big deal, you never know who you can trust anyway.
Normally it is the people closest to you who hurt you the most, soooooooo why not let a stranger do it, that way you can at least say Oh well, I should have known better.

Chances are if you go by statistics, it will be your husband or wife who walks away with everything you have and end up hating you.

So let a stranger have it instead. at least once they are gone you dont have to see them again.

How much more dangerous could it be, then say, advertising in a newspaper, or craigslist for a roommate?

So much for my idea of bumming people for a place to stay now.

If you go to a housing registry site, for single people in rooming huoses, there also it's true that they are all single and most likely horny.

What exactly do you mean by "bumming".