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Well NSG, after Vanishing_shame telling me that people tend to still be living with their parents after the age of 18, I thought I'd ask when you left home.

EDIT: And yes, going away to uni counts as leaving home.

you probably ought not to take an attention whore so seriously.

i never moved back home after i graduated from university. do students living in dorms count as still living with parents because they go "home" for holidays?

Well, I live away from home most of the time now but still go back for some weekends and during breaks from school, what does that count as? I'm 19 now but that's been the situation since 18.

You might also want to ask how many of those who have moved out pay for their accomodation themselves

Well NSG, after Vanishing_shame telling me that people tend to still be living with their parents after the age of 18, I thought I'd ask when you left home.

Joined the Navy at eighteen.

Well, I live away from home most of the time now but still go back for some weekends and during breaks from school, what does that count as? I'm 19 now but that's been the situation since 18.

That counts as leaving home.

You might also want to ask how many of those who have moved out pay for their accomodation themselves

My scholarships pay for my housing, tuition, and books, as well as a laptop and a significant amount of my food. My parents still help me pay for car insurance, gas, and some of my food. And are probably glad that I was in the top 16% or so of the top 1% or so to get such an awesome scholarship. :D

My scholarships pay for my housing, tuition, and books, as well as a laptop and a significant amount of my food. My parents still help me pay for car insurance, gas, and some of my food. And are probably glad that I was in the top 16% or so of the top 1% or so to get such an awesome scholarship. :D

*points to self* Gotta love the GI Bill!

That counts as leaving home.

i live in a garage apt. what does that count as?

Dad was an abusive drunk, mother was pretty shoddy, too. I mostly crashed with friends for the last year and a half of high school, paying for rent/food with wages from after school jobs. Then I left to study at university, and I still don't have a relationship with my family. Nobody's made any effort to really reach out to me, and I haven't either. I maybe call my mother 3 times a year.

I wasn't inteding that post to come across as accusing you of being a lazy student Chandelier. Should have clarified that :)

My scholarships pay for my housing, tuition, and books, as well as a laptop and a significant amount of my food. My parents still help me pay for car insurance, gas, and some of my food. And are probably glad that I was in the top 16% or so of the top 1% or so to get such an awesome scholarship. :D

Go to a good school?

i live in a garage apt. what does that count as?

A garage apartment in your parents' house?

I left home at 17 for university, which was 6 years ago.

You might also want to ask how many of those who have moved out pay for their accomodation themselves
Good point.

I'm moving to go to go get a Diploma in Sept.

10 years old.

I wasn't inteding that post to come across as accusing you of being a lazy student Chandelier. Should have clarified that :)

Ah, I really didn't think you were. No problem. : )

Go to a good school?

It's a pretty good state university. It's very large so the standards of admission aren't as high as some of the other public ones (probably why they still give out huge scholarships to students like me when we want to go there) but it's close to home and has a pretty good engineering college as well as plenty of opportunities for undergraduates to do research. And the campus is really pretty...:D

Your poll is flawed by the way. It says " under 16", not 16 or under.

Your poll is flawed by the way. It says " under 16", not 16 or under.

I know, and it doesn't have any options for the people still living with their parents.

Does boarding school count? Lived away from parents and only went home at holidays, but they paid for it, was there from 16. Otherwise I properly moved away at 18 when I went to uni.

Does boarding school count?

No.

I left home at the age of -204.

You might also want to ask how many of those who have moved out pay for their accomodation themselves

Ohhh, that's a kicker. 19 if so, 18 if not.

No.

Why not exactly?

I left for uni when I was 17.

I left home at about 1:30 this afternoon. Of course, it was a weekend, and I usually go out much earlier, because of work and exercise and stuff.

I moved out when I was 18, almost 19. I didn't gain financial independence (i.e. paying for everything on my own) until I was 23 though in between I usually paid for much of my rent until summer earnings ran out.

Its going to have to be after twenty, cause they rose the price on Dorms up at Perk :mad:, so Im goin to JD, which is right down the street

Tricky question. I moved out when I was 20 (I did a couple of years at a local College.) but years later, my parents came to live with me. so technically, I was living with my parents when I was 25-31 but it was under my roof. (they later found another place to live.)

it's not unusual for 'adults' to live with their parents in the home they grew up in. no need to worry about finding a place to live, no need to worry about the neighborhood, etc. thus it's not a sign of 'maturity' or 'immaturaty'. the question that should be asked is,

are you still living under your parent's thumb?

Left home for uni at 18, pay for my own rent and visit parents during holidays.

You might also want to ask how many of those who have moved out pay for their accomodation themselves

Very good point.

In my case it was 18. I moved back when I was 20, but that was due to a medical necessity. I left again this winter (still 20) to bum around the mountains for a bit (it was good :p). But alas, I am back again. Once I get a job we'll see about moving on out again. In any case, I do see myself as rather independent, home is a place I can come back to to recharge but isn't required for my lifestyle.

edit: I guess I should mention that since the day I first moved out I have been financially independent.

I left home 3 months ago. I moved 800 kilometres away to a tiny country town of 2200 people. Technically there are 3500 in the shire but that includes properties that are tens of thousands of acres, and 3 other towns. I'm 25 and get subsidised rent at $30 a week. And no electricity bill.

Well NSG, after Vanishing_shame telling me that people tend to still be living with their parents after the age of 18, I thought I'd ask when you left home.

EDIT: And yes, going away to uni counts as leaving home.

Does it count if your parents left and you stayed?

18 for Uni. 20 when I started paying for myself.

What an interesting story.

Moved out at 18, pay my own bills.

I may have missed something here, and being away from these forums I more than likely have, can someone tell me what thread this started in?


But

Reports of people over the age of 18 come out every now and then about a greater amount of adults still living with their parents.

The proportion of 17-to-32-year-olds living at home hit 50.2 per cent in 2006, the Housing Industry Association survey shows

HIA chief economist Harley Dale says people aged 25 to 29 are remaining a$t home at a much higher rate than during the 1980s

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24071865-953,00.html

Yes I know this is only Australia but it wouldn't surprise me if similar things are happening in other Western nations too.

As for the OP question I moved out at the age of 20 only because the university I am attending is in another town. I would more than likely still be living with them if both where in the same city.

At 27, in December 12, 2008. Right at my city's anniversary. Finally. Gods, finally!

I left home for the first time when I was 18. Went to college, but I did go home for the summer after my first two years of college to save some money. Never again.

By that definition, 18. Practically speaking, I won't be truly independent until I've graduated and got a full time job.

22. I didn't go away to college....at least, not the first two times.

The summer after each of us turned 18, my father kicked my brothers and me out of that house like we were field goals and it was the last play of the Super Bowl. Not in a harsh way, but in a 'make your own way now' kind of way.

The three of us then proceeded to bounce around the globe in various fashions, doing various things. I'm the only one who has, of yet, come back to America to stay.

I moved out at 19 to go to college, had my own apartment and etc. By the time I graduated at 21 the economy was starting to feel the beggining of the current crunch and totally unable to find anything but part time work I ended up having to move in with my parents again... I am now 25 and still stuck living with my damn parents; I my feelings about this are mostly very nagative.

18 for Uni. 20 when I started paying for myself.

What an interesting story.

I was riveted:p