If you're looking for a roommate because all of your friends are bunking up with other people, you may feel a bit lost in trying to figure out how to know if someone would be a good fit for you.
Distance can challenge even the most solid and committed of relationships. Once you're reunited, it may be even harder to readjust your lifestyle to physically fit them in it.
Living together before getting married to someone is not that uncommon nowadays. Which you think means that you're practically married as it is and that after the wedding it'll be the same as it always was.
Every couple, if you've been together for a significant amount of time, has the conversation about whether or not you two are ready to live with one another.