When did you stop living with parents?

[pinkwafer]

Hiya

I still live with mine, am 24 next week or week after (soon, anyway).

I am working on a temporary contact with an agency, this is the only paid work I have ever done.


PS sorry about wording of title of thread. Sorry as well, I don't mean uni, I mean living away and staying away.

[Concept]

26.

[Clockface]

Originally Posted by Concept

26.

Ditto - 26.

[[Martin]]

Ummm


Originally, when I was 16.

[thequietman]

I was 19 or 20, I was crapping myself leaving my own little space as it was the only place I could be myself I guess. But never had any issues, I've moved 3 or 4 times now since then.

[Progress]

28. It was so good to get out because my relationship with my father was awful. I only moved a few hundred yards away but things got better after that.

[indiegirl1980]

Depends if we count uni or not. If we do, then 18, but I came back for holidays.
Then I came back for 10 years.

If we don't count going away then coming back, then aged 30.

[tyrael]

16
I couldn't get away from my family fast enough. I still have to have dinner with them sometimes which is annoying.

[Serephina]

I moved out when I was 18

[Amber Fyre]

19 when I went to university. I needed to get out of there and it's done me so much good living on my own.

[ratty]

Like some others, 18 to go to uni. I didn't go back during holidays and I never went back after uni despite probably really needing to (for money purposes).

If I hadn't have gone to uni I have no idea when I would have moved out but I'm very happy I did.

[Dannysbabe]

Possibly next year (hopefully!)

[Memory]

Like others, 18 when I went to uni but I did come back for holidays. I'll have lived with them for about a year after graduating by the time I move out next month (aged 22).

[firemonkey]

When i was 24. Went to a social services half way house for the mentally ill.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Geddalexneil

once you leave, there's no going back.

lol this truth


I left at 24, but now stuck w/ mum and brothers again at 26. I hope to get back out of here out soon and move far away lol

[Saponara_Immobile]

20 when I went to uni, about 6 months after graduated I then went back for what turned into 4 or 5 months. That didn't go well, it basically ended up in me then not seeing or speaking to my family for another year and a half.

[pew77]

I fell pregnant at 16, I was a right cow at the time being a hormonal pregnant teenager. my mum lived in Yorkshire and my dad married and moved from Cheshire to wales. I fell out with his new wife and ended up moving out at 17yrs. I have since had 3 more children, moved to wales to be nearer my dad and my lovely step mum. Having grown up I have a great relationship with my step mum, I feel really guilty for my behaviour as a kid but we all live and learn, i'm grateful she allowed me the opportunity to make it up to her

[BritishPeace]

When I went to psychological school @ 18, moved back at 20, don't mind living back at home but being in the centre of a big city was more exciting and had more clubs to go to

[AnathemA]

At 18, went to uni for three years and then came back. Left at 26 'for real'.

I get on OK with my mum but find living at home is a bit like being stuck as a child in an adult's body.

[hellotiger]

I went to uni at 19, so then. When I was home to visit over Christmas and the summer I always felt immediately suffocated and couldn't wait to get back to my own place. I could never live with my parents again.

[Indigo_]

I moved out at around the age of 24. Moved back about a year and a half later for a few months then moved out again, permanently this time there is no going back...

[The Pigeon]

18

[Akira]

I left home at 21 to live with my girlfriend, but that only lasted a year. I moved out of my parents again at 23, and haven't moved back since.

I'd move back if I really had to, but only to avoid being homeless. I get on a lot better with my parents when I'm not living with them.

[Olly.]

Can't see myself moving out for ages tbh. Just left uni and am 22 and genuinely wonder whether I'll be gone before 30. If I had someone to move out with, I'd be desperate to go and I know after a while, parents will get on my nerves and my sister may leave soon anyway, but the prospect of living by myself forever is pretty scary and bleak tbh.

[Lele]

how did you all afford to move out? :\ i'd love to move out, especially as i live with a herion addict brother who smashes the house up the whole time and steals all my stuff

[ßazza]

I think I was 21 at the time.

My relationship isnt that great living with them, its better when we dont, their great parents from afar. Cant stand them when I got to live with them.

I would never want to live with them unless I was extremely desperate or very very temporary arrangement.

[Dannysbabe]

Originally Posted by Lele

how did you all afford to move out? :\

I'd be interested to know as well, I suppose they all had well paid full time jobs. I know where I live you'd need that to buy a property which is why I'm still at home.

[GoldFish]

Originally Posted by Lord Flashheart

I'm not exactly sure how I'm supposed to leave without renting (which I liken to putting my money in a pile, shitting on it, and then burning it).

You basically need a partner to get a mortgage anywhere that isn't up norf

Pretty much. If I was renting i'd probably get a 2nd job just so there is incentive to still allow saving for a deposit, otherwise it's just an endless cycle of not getting anywhere.

You could rent a room and save that way, but then you have to live with a bunch of new people, if I was going to do that i'd make sure the room had an ensuite/bathroom.

buying is essentially made for couples or single rich people these days.

[AnathemA]

Originally Posted by GoldFish

Pretty much. If I was renting i'd probably get a 2nd job just so there is incentive to still allow saving for a deposit, otherwise it's just an endless cycle of not getting anywhere.

Well, it's a trade-off. If you base your success in life purely on how much money you have sitting in your bank account, renting is going to seem like a bad decision compared with living for free with the parents. But if it makes you happier and/or helps you to build a better social life, maybe it isn't so bad.

[goth_jester22]

i have moved in and out of my perants house because i can never hold down a steady job but i have lived on my own for about a year and a half through genesis housing anyone else done that?