For one long and sleepless year, I had a roommate who snored. He didn't just snore in his sleep, there were grunts, snorts, lip smackings, and various other sounds that defy description. Awake, he was generally quiet and courteous -but once asleep, the human noise machine made it difficult for his roommate (me) to ever get any sound sleep. I tried moving my bed to the opposite corner of the room and placing the dressers in between; that didn't work. Sleeping pills didn't keep me asleep long enough. The snort-o-saurus usually fell asleep within minutes of hitting his pillow, but not me. Sometimes during one of his marathon nocturnal "concerts", I'd bang on the wall to wake him up and then I'd lie there pretending to be asleep; he'd wake up suddenly and groggily mumble "what the fuuuu!?". The few minutes of blissful quiet that it took him to fall back asleep wasn't enough, though. I started looking for a new roommate on the online forums but eventually came across Roomster. I liked the design of their site and it seemed like they had pretty good reviews online so I signed up. After going through their listings I realized they had so many great options. I settled on a nice private room in a house that an elderly couple lived in. Best part, no snores!