Living with parents?

[phee]

Just out of curiousity...

How long did you/have you lived with your parents?

[Brenda Starrr]

I left when I was 18, came back the same year. Left when I was 20, came back the same year. Left when I was 22, came back the same year. Left when I was 25, and had to sleep there once in a while.

I think I'm done now.

[Fierce Critter]

I lived with my parents until I was 30.

This is not unusual in my family. My next older sister lived there until she graduated college & got a job. That would have put her about 24.

My oldest sister lived with my parents into her 40's.

After Jon and I got married, we lived in my parents house about 6 months. Then, when we learned we were moving south, we lived with them again for 4 months prior to moving. It made it easier to get out of our apartment & settle some business.

We would not do it again. I do NOT recommend living "at home" past your mid 20's at eldest.

[Shade Everdark]

I was nearly 24 when I left home for the wide, wide world of Detroit. I'd just graduated college.

[phee]

I was kicked out by my stepdad at 18... lived at collage

[LuluVox]

I was kicked out by my stepdad at 18... lived at collage

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I left at 18, just before graduating from highschool. It wasn't planned in the slightest; at the beginning of that day, I had no idea I'd be moving out. Didn't go back until I was 23 and moved up to Michigan (where they had moved from Georgia like 3 years earlier). Moved back out after 9 months. Now they live in St. Louis, and I have no desire to trail after them; they'll probably be moving from there someday soon anyway.

[torn asunder]

been on my own since 18, by my choice... only "roommate" i ever had, was my now ex-wife.

[JaneDead]

i moved out at 18. 3 days after my b-day.

[JaneDead]

i actually moved around more than that but i did not include all the short stays here and there over the years. i don't really count that as "living" somewhere. more like "had no place to go".

all in all i guess i moved 33+ times.

[Ginevra]

I left home at 18. Turned 18 in March, graduated high school in May and was in boot camp in South Carolina by June of the same year.

[paradox]

moved out at 18, found out i was gonna be a dad at 20 so i moved back in while i finished up my season at the job i had then. been out ever since.

i work in a family business though... :ermm:

[Jarodaka]

Moved out at 18 for college. Was back home for freshman/sophomore summer at 19. Haven't lived with the 'rents since.

[TheLordShaper]

I moved out at 18 for school in Lansing. Then I ought a house after 1 semester of dorm life as I couldn’t stand all the stupidity. I think I’d rather be killed slowly by some very foul creature then move back in with the parents. After a fiancée and some time alone, I now have two roommates that are paying the house payment for me allowing me to do some more property investment.

~TLS

[Nienna]

Moved out at 18 for college.. had some nightmare roommates and some nightmare health issues.. moved home..

Moved back out a year later with "the boyfriend", never went back, but may be forced back to mom's within the next few months unless I get lucky.

[Head Wreck]

my attempt to escape was just foiled.

but on reflection i think the next year or two i'll wait for house prices to drop to sensible prices

(house up the road needing considerable amount of work to interrior and exterior (aluminium frame windows need replacing, exterior needs replastering as its bare at a few points, the door is the original god knows what the interior is like and it may still have all 3 coal fires.)

this house went for £90,000.00 recently ($180,000)

in the meantime i think i'll repay most of my student loan and spend money on more fitness kit (nice new rower methinks)

[honeymustard02]

Packed up and left 2 days after my 18 birthday and moved in with my boyfriend and HIS parents lol. Been here 3 years and am fully insane!! But we are working on getting out...sometime....soon....maybe.............

[DressedLikeMe]

I've lived with my mom all my life, though i'm only 18...so it's not as bad as i think it is, but two years ago (in may) i moved to MD to live with my brother...and that was terrible, so i moved back home, and due to the shortage of available jobs :doh: i'm unable to afford my own place...as much as i would like one :

[Scary Guy]

Almost 25 and still living at home, they have no desire to see me leave and I don't really have much of a desire to go. Yet I want to move out and far far away from this place at the same time.

Living at home pro's:

Free room, board, and utilities (at least in my situation)

I keep whatever money I make and can stockpile it into a nice nest egg

All my stuff is here and set up the way I like it

Living at home con's:

Dealing with my mother

Bringing women, or friends in general over

I get yelled at if my music gets to loud (15" sub behind me, it gets loud often :woot: )

Eventually I'll end up getting a place with my best friend Todd. Or if I can ever afford it get my own place like in Fight Club. No one around for miles and I can blast my system as loud as I want. Maybe seal off the top floor and throw parties downstairs.

[gothicmom]

I was 17 when I went to college.

Stayed with the rents the next summer

moved into my own place the following september

bishop moved in with me in may

i lost my job and he was jobless when I met him

moved back with 'rents, that lasted all of about 3 weeks. I hated it! My dad worked 1st shift and had to be up at 4 am and didn't want me out all night and all that crap.

So I moved in with bishop.

we got married and moved into my parents travel trailor for a few months to save $$$ to move to NC. that was great because I was preggers and then had the baby so mom was a help.

then we lived in NC for about 7 years and we moved back up to MI

we stayed with my parents for about 3 months so we could get established and find a place

It was n't too bad the last time. We were a it cramped, because my son was a baby and he stayed in a playpen in the room with us, aym had her own room.

the only stressful part was that my dad hadn't retired yet and had to get up early and michael would cry alot at bedtime. Mostly due to a schedual change and new home and Granny was there.

[Fierce Critter]

>>we got married and moved into my parents travel trailor for a few months <<

We did this right after getting married, too. Theirs was a 22 footer kept at a campground up near Traverse City. Went right from the B&B we stayed in on our wedding night to the camper, at the end of October. After 2 weeks, they shut the water off for the winter, which we fully expected. THEN IT GOT COLD.

It sucked. We couldn't handle it. And the job prospects were dismal. We had intended to stay in the camper until we found jobs and saved the money to rent an apartment. Ended up jumping ship and going down to Florida to see if we could make it down there.

7 moves later... :

[Daniel]

I left as soon as I graduated high school. I went back when I was 20 for a month or so, but then that was it.

[lullaby1031]

I left the day of my graduation - packed in 2 hours and left for Texas... stayed there for 7-8 months and moved back to Michigan.. Had my own place though in both states... After I met Jess - he moved down with me and after we got married - I moved to Alberta for him. Soon we are going to move again and hopefully for the last time! I get sick of moving - but its fun sometimes..

[Guest Megalicious]

Me and my brother moved out when my bro had just turned 18 and I was 14.

It was'nt the ideal way to grow up, but it was a hell of alot better then staying it the current situation we were in.

I never lived with Parents .. meaning that I never lived with both of them. Not to mention it was sometimes nice to have to worry about your mom telling you to clean your room, or do this or that ... because I paided my own bills and did my own thing. The only thing my brother seem to have a problem with (and the rest of the neighborhood boys that were like brothers) was boys lol ... it was funny, I could come home high as all hell, drunk and passing out .. but if I ever brought a boy home .. not only would my brother had kicked his ass .. but I would have been in so much trouble lol ..

But I do long to know what it would have been like to have a normal. loving and supportive family. Not that my brother wasn't loving and supporting, but you know what I mean. Sometimes it's hard to have to deal with such adult situations and worries at such a young age. I offten wonder how much it has to do with my disfunction and self distructiveness as an adult ...

Such is life I suppose =)

[TheAbsynthFairy]

I have been on my own since I was 16 years old. I ended up moving in with 5 male roomates and 2 female roomates in this two bedroom home. It was crazy because everyone had graduated long before me and the parties and noise level at first was awesome...then I was like...Ummm....I have to get some sleep for school. I worked a couple of jobs and ended up finishing highschool and going on to college somehow. I had roomates until I was 23.

I moved back in with my mom when I was 20 for about a year before I was driven nuts and left again. Been on my own ever since.

[Hellion]

Almost 24 years,the rest of the time I lived on my own. :devil

I moved probably 12-14 times in my life,from the west side to the east side,and sometimes north.