Thrown out of the family home just before I turned 18, lived homeless for a few months and got given a council home eventually.
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How old were you when you first moved out?
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My parents tell me rent is dead money.
My father believes that house prices always go up. (I think he's a fool)
They also acknowledge that the housing market is somewhat unaffordable for new buyers.
These reasons are probably why they don't mind that none of their kids have moved out. Hell, My sister is older than me, and even has a masters degree and a stable job and she's still here (No partner though). I'm pretty sure that my mother simply prefers having us around anyway.
I've gotten into arguments about the housing market quite a few times with my father.
My father believes that house prices always go up. (I think he's a fool)
They also acknowledge that the housing market is somewhat unaffordable for new buyers.
These reasons are probably why they don't mind that none of their kids have moved out. Hell, My sister is older than me, and even has a masters degree and a stable job and she's still here (No partner though). I'm pretty sure that my mother simply prefers having us around anyway.
I've gotten into arguments about the housing market quite a few times with my father.
26, but I was in major debt before then so I didn't want to move out while being in that. Also I saw no sense in paying $1000 a month for a studio apartment.
Could I have moved out years earlier and moved in with some buddies and lived in basically a 2 story frat house? Absolutely, but there was no way I was doing that. I don't share space unless it's a girlfriend.
Could I have moved out years earlier and moved in with some buddies and lived in basically a 2 story frat house? Absolutely, but there was no way I was doing that. I don't share space unless it's a girlfriend.
18. I went travelling for the year. I worked a ski season in Canada, and then went travelling around SE Asia for a few months. When I got back I went to uni 5hrs away.
I have lived back at home for a few months at a time after uni etc but have not moved back long term since I left.
I have lived back at home for a few months at a time after uni etc but have not moved back long term since I left.
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Moved back at 22 for a couple of months while looking for a job, and once again for a couple more montbs after a cross country move for a job at 28, but once I got an apartment I was out. never planning on it again
Moved back at 22 for a couple of months while looking for a job, and once again for a couple more montbs after a cross country move for a job at 28, but once I got an apartment I was out. never planning on it again
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That was 2 years and a little ago so... 25 going on 26? I live in Germany though so customs on that front might be different. For one, a lot of people already move out for their university years (and not into dorms either just regular apartments sometimes shared with roommates), I just didn't because I lived somewhat close to the uni and was able to save up money for a semester abroad that way (i am not counting that semester as me actually moving out btw).
Then after my studies when I found a job it was rather close to my parents' house too and it was a limited time contract at first. But they told me they would offer me a fixed position if I did well my first year, which they did, and then I moved out cause I had the financial security to do so. Once I decided on moving out it all happened rather fast, landlords/ladies love people working in government institutions as tenants because they have job security = punctual rent always.
That being said I always paid my parents monthly from my part time job earnings for food and lodge ever since starting university. Not as much as i would pay a stranger ofc, but I did compensate them.
Then after my studies when I found a job it was rather close to my parents' house too and it was a limited time contract at first. But they told me they would offer me a fixed position if I did well my first year, which they did, and then I moved out cause I had the financial security to do so. Once I decided on moving out it all happened rather fast, landlords/ladies love people working in government institutions as tenants because they have job security = punctual rent always.
That being said I always paid my parents monthly from my part time job earnings for food and lodge ever since starting university. Not as much as i would pay a stranger ofc, but I did compensate them.
19. I not only moved out, I moved out of my home country and came to US. One of the most challenging phases of my life. You really don't know what you got till it's gone.
I moved out when I was 23 during the beginning of this decade straight after finishing my master's degree to start a new job in the city. Went pretty smoothly but had to use most of my savings that I collected when working part-time during my studies (parents didn't provide me with any financial support). Thankfully, the job I went into enabled me to recoup my losses within half a year.
embarrassingly i was 27 and still penniless but i was so determined to not be 30 living at home i was like "fuck it, i'm making this happen". dropped out of school, got a manufacturing job and couch surfed/lived in dicey apartments for like half a decade. in the end it actually worked out well for me but... man... that was one rough ride
18, but I come back every weekend to work in the restaurant of my parents and I stay there between semesters. I will come back for a few years (2 or 3) after I get my Masters diploma. Just 1,5 years hopefully...
I moved out at 27 in 2014. I just graduated from a long ~9 year college run between getting an Associate and Bachelor degree (couldn't afford full time semesters), and had a good job lined up. The job was 2 hours away, so there was no way I could make that commute daily.
I was living off of student loans for a couple years at this point since I quit my retail job to focus on school. By this time I had $1k to my name, and my grandparents offered me $1.5k to help move. My girlfriend (wife now) quit her job and moved with me.
It was a pretty painless experience, and the freedom has been incredible. My home life with my family has been a real struggle and stressor since 2010, so the ability to move away was a huge weight lifted from me and the best thing that could happen for my health and well-being.
I was living off of student loans for a couple years at this point since I quit my retail job to focus on school. By this time I had $1k to my name, and my grandparents offered me $1.5k to help move. My girlfriend (wife now) quit her job and moved with me.
It was a pretty painless experience, and the freedom has been incredible. My home life with my family has been a real struggle and stressor since 2010, so the ability to move away was a huge weight lifted from me and the best thing that could happen for my health and well-being.
18. It sucked at first, though liberating. I returned home a week here, a week there, to surf pop duke's couch.
Back in 1993. I was 18, and it was about 4 months after I graduated high school. I moved into an apartment with a friend because we both had shitty jobs but wanted to get out of our parents homes asap.
Jesus your situation continues to mirror mine, except my sister is actually a little younger and does have a partner. But even the master's degree part lines up.
Moved out at 23, came back at 27 cause I lost my job. Dad died by 28, and I didn't want to leave mom alone so we moved to an apartment together. Stayed until 31 when I met my now wife, moved in with her.
At 18 for university. Was supposed to move out at 15 for high school (as many of my friends did), but family ended up moving to the city the same year.
It went well for me. I worked during holidays and had good student loans and grants to make it fairly comfortable. I'd been helping out at home (laundry, cleaning and dinners) since I was 10 so I didn't have any trouble transitioning.
It went well for me. I worked during holidays and had good student loans and grants to make it fairly comfortable. I'd been helping out at home (laundry, cleaning and dinners) since I was 10 so I didn't have any trouble transitioning.
When I was 18, for college. At least where I went to school it was definitely the norm to move out for college.
I moved out when I was 16 with some friends. It was shit; nobody cleaned, nobody had any experience living with others, the flat was a right dive. So I moved back in with my family, and then moved out for good at 20.
The added maturity helped a lot. In the time between 17 and 20 when I lived at home I asked my mam to let me do my own washing, I started to buy my own food and had my own shelf in the fridge, I cleaned a lot more, etc. So the second time, it was good.
The added maturity helped a lot. In the time between 17 and 20 when I lived at home I asked my mam to let me do my own washing, I started to buy my own food and had my own shelf in the fridge, I cleaned a lot more, etc. So the second time, it was good.
I think I was 25, because I stayed at home while I was in college. After that I moved in with my wife (who was my gf at the time) and the rest was history.
I moved out when I was 17 under the guise that it was temporary. When I turned 18, I revealed that it was not temporary. Then later that same age I moved back in because lol money, so it actually was temporary. Then I moved out for good when I was 23 because I had gotten my first real job.
21 and it was amazing and I miss it. Moved back in at 26 as I got divorced with a six week old. I'm still here at 28 though as I'm moving overseas next July and there's no point moving out just to move again. It's hard though and I really don't feel at home here.
18 when I joined the military. After my six year enlistment, I moved back in because I started school and I'm saving money to buy a house.
Never really, I think. At university I came back home every week-end, and later once per 15 days. I worked for 2 years but that wasn't really moving out, I came back during holidays...Then I was fired partly because of health issues. I stayed unemployed for 9 years due to mental health and living in a place with high unemployment rate. Then one year ago most of my family died and my mental health got worse. I often apologize to people I lost for failing or not being the exemplary child who succeeds.
