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Are over 18 and still live with their parents?

Aye. 18 and still at home. Until next september - I'm saving for university.

I'm 19 and i still live at home. Granted, I live close to the college I study at and the college subsidizes my transportation costs, so it's cheaper to commute than to live in a dorm or in an apartment just off campus.

I'm currently at home, as I've not gone back to university for next term yet.

I am, and I live with my parents until I go back for classes next semester.

My brother's over 30 and still living at my father's. Saves a lot on expenses, I suppose; he should be loaded by now (he does have a decent enough job).

OP, maybe you should change your post slightly to live at home with parents and not in school or on a temporary basis?

In my case, no. I'm over 5,000 miles away from my parents. :D

I moved one month after I turned 18, and I never looked back since. Such a relief.

Nope, I got out when I was 19 to live in the study where I'm supposed to study :p

I'm 22 and live with my parents. I went to a local university and lived with them throughout uni too. So I have absolutely no student debt :) I'm in no huge rush to move out, it's not like I can actually afford a house yet anyway.

I moved back in with my parents recently. I was on my own for quite a while though.

Well, I'm in a dorm for most of the year, but I live at home during breaks.

I'm 18 and live with my parents for another year, until university at least.

A fair few of my freinds aged 18-20 still live with their parents and don't do full time education or Univeristy. Mainly they just don't have the cash, or ability to support themselves.

I won't be going back to school until Spring or Fall 2009, and it's highly unlikely I'll be able to afford a house or even a studio apartment before then, so it looks like I'll be living with my parents until further notice.

I'm 32, and moved back in with my parents when our family business collapsed. It was the easiest thing for all of us to do.

Now, I'm moving in with my girlfriend, and her mother. Although in all fairness, her mother is approaching retirement age, and would probably move in with us in a few years otherwise.

I'm 30 and I'll be moving in with my mother tomorrow. Of course, I'll be moving out Monday. And it's not so much "moving in" as it is "visiting for vacation."

So...no.

I come back a couple of times a year for a week or so, such as now, and maybe a week in the summer, but otherwise not. I did live at home for longer the summer after I turned 19 (because UK uni dorms kick you out in June) but not since, and I think we're all happiest with that arrangement.

I can't speak for other countries, but here, I think the increasing trend to people living at home past 18 is a product of high prices to buy or even rent property.

I'm 20 and still living at home during school breaks. My goal is to find a job and an apartment in the same town I attend college at for next summer.

20, still live with my parents. Unfortunately I'm not sure how I'm ever going to change that.

I still live with my mother, I plan to move out after I graduate and find a job.

I'll be 18 in about a week and I'll still be in high school and I'll still be living at home. In 2008, my plan is to go to community college for a couple of years and then transfer to some college that I'll stay at in a dorm.

I really can't wait to move out, and I wish I could when I'm 18 but I'm too poor and I'm definitely trying to work more to make some better cash for myself. I might move in with my dad. (I don't live with my parents.) We sure have talked about it, anyway.

I visit the "nest" for a few days at a time whilst I am on leave from AIT

I visit the "nest" for a few days at a time whilst I am on leave from AIT

AIT? What MOS? I never got leave from OSUT. In fact, we weren't allowed outside the building without express permission. Of course, that was a few years ago (7 to be precise).

I occasionally live with my grandparents for a week here and week there whenever I go overseas (after I get out of my apartment and before I find a new one), which seems to be about every other year lately.

I'm over 18 and living with my parents..

It's called high school..

I moved out at 15 and haven't been back. However, if things don't change rapidly my mother might be living with me.

The FUCK she will.

I moved out at 15 and haven't been back. However, if things don't change rapidly my mother might be living with me.

The FUCK she will.

:eek: that was hubby's exact quote.

:eek: that was hubby's exact quote.

He's a smart man, after all.

hmmm my parents would be 90 and 91 were they still alive.

i havent lived with them since i graduated college. if school vacations count as living with.

I moved out at 15 and haven't been back. However, if things don't change rapidly my mother might be living with me.

my sister in law had her mother (the queen bitch from hell) living with her and my husbands brother for quite a few years. it took her that long to realize that even though her mother was disabled with a stroke that she needed to take care of her own family. her mother is now happier living in an assisted living situation. it was for the best.

my sister in law had her mother (the queen bitch from hell) living with her and my husbands brother for quite a few years. it took her that long to realize that even though her mother was disabled with a stroke that she needed to take care of her own family. her mother is now happier living in an assisted living situation. it was for the best.

I know I don't need/want her here. I am unable to find anyone else to take her, she got herself evicted and has 3 days to move.....and I can't put her anywhere....except maybe here.

I nearly go insane when she has to stay with me for 12 hours once every two weeks, having her here for any amount of time at all and I might just kill myself. Literally.

I am seriously considering dropping her off at the homeless shelter and telling them I found her at Walmart.

I am seriously considering dropping her off at the homeless shelter and telling them I found her at Walmart.

Do it.

Heh. It's a wonder how things turn out, isn't it?

I'm almost twenty years old (come March 14, I will be), and here I remain. I'll be able to go off on my own once my brother completes his job's apprenticeship program and starts making $16 per hour... In about six months. Within that period of time, I'll need to study my basics for college, and take a placement test (hopefully, I'll place out of two years of the basics, which will be excellent). I'll then go off to a university in some distant place. I'm just not quite sure where that is yet.

But that's the funny thing. Growing up, all of my friends were two to four years older than I was. But now, at this age, most of my friends are one to three years younger than I am. Just goes to show that things never stay the same, I guess.

Do it.Who let you out of your cage?;)

I moved out at 15 and haven't been back. However, if things don't change rapidly my mother might be living with me.

Move... and don't leave a forwarding address! :eek:

I know I don't need/want her here. I am unable to find anyone else to take her, she got herself evicted and has 3 days to move.....and I can't put her anywhere....except maybe here.

I nearly go insane when she has to stay with me for 12 hours once every two weeks, having her here for any amount of time at all and I might just kill myself. Literally.

I am seriously considering dropping her off at the homeless shelter and telling them I found her at Walmart.

... the YWCA?!?!

A church???

there's gotta be somewhere...

Move... and don't leave a forwarding address! :eek:

I second this motion.

I know I don't need/want her here. I am unable to find anyone else to take her, she got herself evicted and has 3 days to move.....and I can't put her anywhere....except maybe here.

I nearly go insane when she has to stay with me for 12 hours once every two weeks, having her here for any amount of time at all and I might just kill myself. Literally.

I am seriously considering dropping her off at the homeless shelter and telling them I found her at Walmart.

you need to talk to someone who knows both of you. you do need to "honor thy mother" but not at the expense of your sanity.

an unbiased 3rd party could help you understand just how far is reasonable to go in this circumstance. normally a homeless mother is a real reason to have her come stay with you so if you leave her off at a shelter you might end up feeling extremely guilty over it.

but maybe it is what is necessary.

or maybe you should let your husband make this decision. he must know your mom well enough to judge whether or not she is capable of figuring out her own life.

21 and living with my mommy and daddy after dropping out of college (I'm surprised they let me in because they were pretty damn disappointed that I decided try and become a cop). I'll have to stay with my parents until I attend the CHP academy, which is in March, wheeeee!

Away from home ... stayed for a bit to help them with the farm while finishing my undergrads and then masters but moved out 2 years ago and enjoy my privacy and freedom.

22 and still at home... and so it shall be until I'm either kicked out or run out of places I want to travel to ^^

Going to be 20 in nine days. Live in a rented flat.

I'm in my mid-twenties, and I moved back into my parents' attic a couple of years ago. I'm hoping to be able to move out again sometime in the next year or so, but at the present moment, between my poor health and my poor finances, I simply can't afford it.

I'm FORTY-THREE years old. Living with my mother, have been for the last decade, aren't planning on moving.










I win the thread. :(

Heh. It's a wonder how things turn out, isn't it?

I'm almost twenty years old (come March 14, I will be), and here I remain. I'll be able to go off on my own once my brother completes his job's apprenticeship program and starts making $16 per hour... In about six months. Within that period of time, I'll need to study my basics for college, and take a placement test (hopefully, I'll place out of two years of the basics, which will be excellent). I'll then go off to a university in some distant place. I'm just not quite sure where that is yet.

But that's the funny thing. Growing up, all of my friends were two to four years older than I was. But now, at this age, most of my friends are one to three years younger than I am. Just goes to show that things never stay the same, I guess.Haha! I am 18 days older than you!

I'm a uni student, in Engineering. It involves a fairly heavy courseload, so I have lost a few friends. Working at a national grocery store chain, most of my friends are a couple years younger than me. It is also an expensive as fuck program, which has doubled in cost during this decade AND minimum wage has since gone down. There is no way in fuck I do not live with my parents.

There is no way in fuck I do not live with my parents.

I like your misuse of profanity.. it adds to the overall badass-ambience you're creating.

I like your misuse of profanity.. it adds to the overall badass-ambience you're creating.I am badass to the core.

I'm 22 now, and I still live at home. I figure that as long as I go to uni here in the same city, it'd be silly to move out. I pay plenty of rent (A$125 a week - I could buy my way into a decent apartment with that) to my parents, so I'm hardly being a parasite. I am a bit lazy though, and there'd be lots of costs I'd have to cover that would probably mean me having to sell my car and get something cheaper. Which I don't want.

I will start earning more once I get into my postgrad stuff and do tutoring as part of the uni staff. Maybe I'll move out then, but chances are I won't.

But when I finish my Honours year (which will be the end of 2009) I'm out of here, since there are no decent jobs in Brisbane - it'll probably be Sydney or Melbourne at first.

Haha! I am 18 days older than you!

I'm 19 days older than you! I rent a room in the city close to my university but I go home in the weekends. The best of both worlds.

I live at home but unfortunately I'll have to move next year when I go to university.

I'm FORTY-THREE years old. Living with my mother, have been for the last decade, aren't planning on moving.










I win the thread. :(
You sure do.:D
Going to be 20 in nine days. Live in a rented flat.I'm older than you?:eek: I thought you were thirty or something..


I'm 20 and still live at home, don't study and am not planning on moving out in the near future (which means the coming days at the most).

23.

I'm 25, and I do, and will be until it is no longer best for the both of us.

I'm 19 and I live with them sporadically. I live at university during the semester, with my parents in holidays though I'm hoping this summer I will be in Greece or America for 3 months...

I haven't lived with my parents since I was 17

i was technically domiciled with my parents til this summer when i turned 23, but between turning 18 and then i probably only spent a few months there.

I'm one of these.

I'm 25 and live in my own home, that my own money and credit score paid for...well, OK, my own money pays for it, even if it was my wife's credit score.

over 20, and for a short period of time, my parents lived with me.

I paid (most of) the rent and utilities, they did the grocery shopping and housework chores.

and when then they found a place of their own.

19, not living with parents, but they support me financially. having your parents support you until you finish college is actually the norm here. then after that, you support your parents. ;)

I moved out at 15 for a few months, was enticed back by mom's cooking, then moved out for good at 17. What the hell is with males and their living with the parents forever? One of my brothers didn't leave until he was 21, then came back at 24 for a year. Another had to be pushed out the door at 20. I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there.

Goes to show you're all a bunch of scared mommy's boys.

Are over 18 and still live with their parents?

18 and living at home. Barring a nuclear weapon going off in the Cincinnati area, my dying from some weird item of food I ate, or the world coming to an end, I'm getting my own place next fall with a buddy of mine.

I lived with parents for a few years after school, now living in uni halls for 6 months of the year, so for the other 6 I'm still living with parents.

19(20 in feb, yeah)Live with parents when college goes on a break, hoping to get into university, then take over the world, failing that maybe become a secret agent (but it won't be secret anymore, muhahahahaaaahaha.....ha.) But seriously after uni i dunno.

I moved out at 15 for a few months, was enticed back by mom's cooking, then moved out for good at 17. What the hell is with males and their living with the parents forever? One of my brothers didn't leave until he was 21, then came back at 24 for a year. Another had to be pushed out the door at 20. I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there.

Goes to show you're all a bunch of scared mommy's boys.

Or just really poor and don't know how to cook.

Goes to show you're all a bunch of scared mommy's boys.

It's a little hard to move out permanently when you have no job and spend a large proportion of your time studying at home or in university itself

Sort-of. I'm a college student, thus a leech off of my parents savings and retirement funds, but I live in Columbus most of the time, in my crappy little apartment, and I still consider their house to be my home.

I don't anymore, but I did live with my parents until I was 24.

And even then, I only moved because they sold the house out from under me and moved to a log cabin in the woods in the middle of nowhere.

Yep, I still live with my parents. Its much cheaper than living elsewhere.

22 and still home with parents. i moved out when at uni, but am back now. saving up to get a place in 2 years time or so

house prices in this country are ridiculous

I moved out for university/ straight after university depending on how you define moved out.

Can't imagine 15 year olds moving out. Where do you go?

Legally, yes. My legal residence is at my parent's house. This is also my current location. However, I am a college student, and I am currently home on vacation. My actual residence is a dorm room on the other side of the country.

I'm still winning the thread. My mom rocks!

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over 20, and for a short period of time, my parents lived with me.

I paid (most of) the rent and utilities, they did the grocery shopping and housework chores.

and when then they found a place of their own.

Strong contender. BOTH parents is a whole different ballgame, perhaps I spoke too soon ... both parents, still doing their relationship thing, is a lot more challenging than just one!

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Or just really poor and don't know how to cook.

Name the ingredients, I'd cook the pants off you!

I cook for my mom far more often than she cooks for me, nor does she wash my clothes or clean my room for me. I bet you are crap at all three.

"Live with" just means to live in the same place. I really feel quite sorry for people who think dissing their parents is "independence." It's just plain arrogance in my book.

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I don't anymore, but I did live with my parents until I was 24.

And even then, I only moved because they sold the house out from under me and moved to a log cabin in the woods in the middle of nowhere.

Yeah, that sounds like a hint. ;)

Gee, how did I miss this?

I moved out at 15 for a few months, was enticed back by mom's cooking, then moved out for good at 17. What the hell is with males and their living with the parents forever? One of my brothers didn't leave until he was 21, then came back at 24 for a year. Another had to be pushed out the door at 20. I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there.

Goes to show you're all a bunch of scared mommy's boys.

And that you don't have what it takes to be a mom.

For one, the grossly arrogant assumption that all other posters are boys. Sexist.

And no smilie. You don't give one, you don't get one.

Gee, how did I miss this?



And that you don't have what it takes to be a mom.

For one, the grossly arrogant assumption that all other posters are boys. Sexist.

And no smilie. You don't give one, you don't get one.

There are no girls on the internet.

And this also proves my point in the other thread, everything is blamed on the mother. :rolleyes:

19, not living with parents, but they support me financially. having your parents support you until you finish college is actually the norm here. then after that, you support your parents. ;)

Oh, if that were only so...

There are no girls on the internet.

And this also proves my point in the other thread, everything is blamed on the mother. :rolleyes:

Not true, I blame everything on my abusive father. :)

But back to the thread topic. I'm 23 and share an apartment with a good friend of mine.

I am 26 and own a flat, and my mother lives with me in it. She's an evil commie so we get to watch Al Jazeera and argue the evening away before my friend (who also lives with me sometimes) gets dragged in and the whole thing decends into political-historical point scoring and South Park references. :D

I don't anymore, but I did live with my parents until I was 24.

And even then, I only moved because they sold the house out from under me and moved to a log cabin in the woods in the middle of nowhere.

LOL! They did what they had to do to get you out. :p

i moved out at 22, due to lazyness and lack of money, its just easier to conserve the status quo i guess.... after that i hopped houses staying at friends for about a year and then i lucked out cuz my best friend offered me a room really cheap.

btw im a poor loaning student mooching off the state and being as lazy as can be, messing up at my education and in general not doing what is expected from me.

so sue me :P

Name the ingredients, I'd cook the pants off you!

I cook for my mom far more often than she cooks for me, nor does she wash my clothes or clean my room for me. I bet you are crap at all three.

"Live with" just means to live in the same place. I really feel quite sorry for people who think dissing their parents is "independence." It's just plain arrogance in my book.
Yeah, that sounds like a hint. ;)
No i'm perfectly able to wash my clothes, my room is fairly clean, and my mum is a really bad cook(well to be fair she's getting better, but not much), my dad is far better, i can cook some things but not very advanced things e.g. i roasted a chicken once, it tasted good!:), and i used to know how to make a mean lasanga...mmmmm lasanga, you've got me hungry now:D. But i hold my hand up at eating ready cooked food, but avoid fast food like the plague(it just doesn't fill me up, and it makes me feel guilty).
I'm far better than my flatmates at cooking and cleaning.
ohhh i'm sooo bored

I'm still winning the thread. My mom rocks! didn't know this was a contest...

Strong contender. BOTH parents is a whole different ballgame, perhaps I spoke too soon ... both parents, still doing their relationship thing, is a lot more challenging than just one! can't really say since I have no comparison... except add to both parents that one is dependant on the other (no medical reason) and the other is short tempered and hard of hearing.

yeah... lots of shouting and arguing but no physical stuff.

Name the ingredients, I'd cook the pants off you! Same here... tho some of the times the pants are off because they're running to the bathroom. :D

I cook for my mom far more often than she cooks for me, nor does she wash my clothes or clean my room for me. I bet you are crap at all three. bad assumption. I did my own chores for a while and my Mother started to feel... un-needed. so I let her do the cooking, cleaning and what not (yes, I even let her do her motherly complaining) and after a while she perked up and kept active, same with my dad and repairing/tinkering around the apartment. (besides, I got some great recipies and tricks of the trade from them.) ;)

When they became Grandparents... it was as if the energy was re-injected into their lives. Sometimes parents just want to feel 'needed'.

There are no girls on the internet.

And this also proves my point in the other thread, everything is blamed on the mother. :rolleyes:

It was Neesika who collapsed the concept "parents" to "mother." Go back and look. Your lame joke aside, you are saying exactly nothing, let alone proving anything. And I don't know what "other thread" you mean.

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didn't know this was a contest...

For many people it seems to be. To them of course, I am the biggest loser, but why not turn that on it's head.

can't really say since I have no comparison... except add to both parents that one is dependant on the other (no medical reason) and the other is short tempered and hard of hearing.

yeah... lots of shouting and arguing but no physical stuff.

Mmm, I'm not the huge expert either. I like my mother still, but really can't stand my father for more than a few hours. If they lived together, no way in hell would I live with them. That's all I meant.

Same here... tho some of the times the pants are off because they're running to the bathroom. :D

Pants like that will get you in trouble! Perhaps you need a belt?

bad assumption. *snip*Wasn't addressed to you, seashell. Go easy!

Wasn't addressed to you, seashell. Go easy!
just saying that having your parents do things like cleaning/cooking/repair/etc does not mean that the person is 'bad' at it.

Not me, I moved out when I turned 18.

Moved out when I was 18, ran into financial difficulties in my mid-20's and moved back in :(, bought a house at the beginning of this year and moved back out :D

I got married ... so I spend my free time at mom's house to escape the nagging :headbang:

I'm 22 and live with my parents. I went to a local university and lived with them throughout uni too. So I have absolutely no student debt :) I'm in no huge rush to move out, it's not like I can actually afford a house yet anyway.

That's why I didn't move out until I turned 30; I couldn't afford a house.

Also, my father did not forcibly evict me. :p

just saying that having your parents do things like cleaning/cooking/repair/etc does not mean that the person is 'bad' at it.

OK. The poster I was addressing (Mad Hatters) didn't seem to take it that way though.

It can be a bit of a trap. Anyone can clean, and washing clothes isn't that hard either. But if someone else in the house is a fantastic cook it's easy to let them do it all the time, and then one doesn't learn.

There's a lot of dishes I can't really cook without a recipe, the delicate things like cream sauces or risotto, souffles, cakes. The first half-dozen quiches I needed a recipe, but now I have it down. It's just practice ...

I'm FORTY-THREE years old. Living with my mother, have been for the last decade, aren't planning on moving.

I win the thread. :(

Not any more.

I'm 48. I moved in with my mom (rest in peace) and dad about 5 years ago after I got back from an overseas work project. Mom was in remission from cancer at the time and needed help. After she passed on, dad needed help because he's in his late 80's, can't drive and has trouble walking. [*cue appropriate sad story music]

Being the oldest kid, (shockingly) the last one single, and able to work out of a home office, I was the logical one to pitch in. I wasn't gonna let the folks end up in some snake-pit of a nursing home.

Appropriate accolades may be posted here or forwarded to my e-mail box ;)

It's a little hard to move out permanently when you have no job and spend a large proportion of your time studying at home or in university itself

Uh...

I did it, and yeah things were tight, but it wasn't THAT hard.

Gee, how did I miss this?



And that you don't have what it takes to be a mom.

For one, the grossly arrogant assumption that all other posters are boys. Sexist.

And no smilie. You don't give one, you don't get one.

Bah, children should be pushed out of the door the second they finish high school. Anything less fosters dependence and insanity in the parents.

Not true, I blame everything on my abusive father. :)


Ditto.

I'll admit though, living with parents wasn't an option since I had to move to go to Uni. Even still...I can't imagine living with them any longer than I did.

It was Neesika who collapsed the concept "parents" to "mother." Go back and look. Your lame joke aside, you are saying exactly nothing, let alone proving anything. And I don't know what "other thread" you mean.Way to be a douche.