At What Age Did You Move Out Of Mummy And Daddys?

LilacPixie

I went to Uni at 17, did a year in halls then moved back home and just commuted daily from home. I bought a flat at 22. I'm 30 now and I just could not imagine still living with my parents.

Going4TheDream

<18

Cleaver wrote: »

Did you not live with your partner first? Each to their own and all that, but I find it really odd to think that I could marry someone without living with them first. A bit like buying a car without having a test drive.

That made me giggle and made me think just how times change 50 odd years ago it would be unthinkable to live with/'test drive' someone before marriage!! Mind you I suppose years ago people spent time and got to know their partners and their values before deciding to marry?

Miss_Orangey_Goodness

18-25

bought a house when I was I 22 and moved out. could NOT go back to living with them unless financially had to but they would drive me mad, love my own space/independence and cleanliness

wymondham

<18

Miss_Orangey_Goodness wrote: »

....they would drive me mad, love my own space/independence and cleanliness

That makes a nice change - messy parents!!

Jimmy_31

ska_lover wrote: »

Unless the parents are charging them the going rate for rent and other services then they are indeed getting handouts Jimmy.

Anyone getting a reduced rate whilst living at their parents (and lets be honest most do) is not what I would class as 'paying your their way'. In fact parents like this are not helping their offspring, they are hindering their natural development into independant adults by wrapping them in cotton wool.

Where is the dignity in living off of elderly people, i do not know..

The day you throw your first 16 year old child out onto the street because they are not earning enough to pay you the going rate of a rental is the day i believe you know what you are talking about.

Letting a child of your own stay in the family home till they have saved enough money for a house deposit is seen as perfectly normal to most people in this day and age.

When you do throw your first kid out make sure you wrap them up in a lot of cotton wool because it aint easy on the streets.

Good luck in turning your child into an independant adult, may as well throw em out at ten years old and make a proper man out of em:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

peterg1965

18-25

I remember the day well, I went off to work one day, at lunch time I opened my sandwiches and my Mother had wrapped my sarnies in a map - I took the hint and left home!

Jimmy_31

Cleaver wrote: »

You're either "crawling to a landlord" if you rent or "crawling to a bank" if you buy. What's the difference? Why is one standing on your feet whilst the other isn't?

The difference is that with a mortgage you will one day own the house.:)

geneer

<18

According to CML it seems like 80% of current FTBs have to take a chunk of Mummy and Daddys houses with them.

Cleaver

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

The difference is that with a mortgage you will one day own the house.:)

That's true, but what does that have to do with the point I made?. I still don't understand how moving out and renting a place isn't showing that you can stand on two feet and cope on your own. If you buy or rent your own place then you're showing that you have the means to live, doesn't matter which one.

Cleaver

geneer wrote: »

According to CML it seems like 80% of current FTBs have to take a chunk of Mummy and Daddys houses with them.

Or cash. My parents helped out with our deposit, but it was out of cash not through remortgaging their house.