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

OptionARMAGEDDON

18-25

18 for uni. only came home for washing. That must have been a bit of an experience Steve. How long for?

wymondham

<18

Moved out at 16. Got my first job for £30 a week, and my rent was £30 a week..... tough but happy times!!!

I_luv_cats

I bailed out the family home @ 17 as there were too many rows and bad atmosphere.

Also to save travelling to work as had to get up at 5am and leave @ 5.30 am to hitch / bus ride

BUT leaving home so young made it a constant struggle as on teeny-boppers wages and had adult bills to pay.

silvercar

18-25

silvercar wrote: »

18 when I went to uni. Don't think that really counts given I was financially dependent and home for all the long holidays.

Never lived at home after uni. Bought my first home a year after uni at 22.

Even though I moved out quite young, I would be more than happy for my kids to live at home rent free until they could afford to properly move out.

Parenting doesn't stop on their 18th birthday.

Blacklight

18-25

I'm still living in my parents basement at 18 as they spent all the money this country ever had and now house prices are too high. There's no easy way I can get my hands on an MTV style home with basketball court for nothing so I'm not moving out. Also I'm too scared mummy won't be there to protect me from the big boys.

Jennifer_Jane

<18

Out of home at 16. Went to college in a separate town as the family were all going to move there and my brother was doing his articles there. My father was an alcoholic and forgot to send money, so I battled a bit. Eventually left college before the end of the course, and worked. I think it should have been a happy time (at college), but my childhood was miserable as I never knew what would be happening next.

worldtraveller

18-25

chucknorris wrote: »

Wow we used to dream of our own corner of a cesspit

Luxury! I had to get up in the morning, at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill and pay mill-owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing Hallelujah!

asturdy2

18-25

moved out at 22, rented for 2 years then bought at 24 7 years ago.

xmum2threex

<18

I was 15 when I moved out stayed with a friend untill I was 16 and then got my first private rented house. Worked for £600 a month which only just covered the bills but was so much better than the crack den I grew up in!!! Never looked back moved to Scotland and just got on with things finally happy so do not regret it whats so ever xx

lostinrates

Which time:

8 when they sent me to school? 16 when I got myself out of school? 18 when, having bounced back I went to university? After the coma in my early twenties when I moved back for a year? Or weh n ewe bought last year?

After 18 I was/we were a contributor, paying a fair share of bills etc, and contributing to the mortgage (which wasn't their when DH and I moved in with them for a while).

What about when they move out from my house?...I hope its a long time as the one that moves in with me is leaving in a box.