[Dougella]

Sometimes there can be a level of codependency with adult children who live with a parent and that's not healthy for either side (ofcourse that's not always the case, just for some people).

There are things you can start doing now to make sure you'd cope better living on your own, like get your Mum to show you how to use the washing machine and start doing your own laundry and maybe try cooking your own meals a few times a week.

Midlife bookworm makes a good point about looking at the sums of what you might be living on and see what that would look like. If you had enough inheritance to put down a deposit to buy your own flat mortgage payments can sometimes be less than rent. You do have to factor in the fact that you would be responsible for any repairs or anything that goes wrong though. Another factor might be that if you got into a relationship and someone else was living with you then you could both share the costs of everything.