When did you move out of your parental home?

VestanPance

I moved out at 18. I was running my own software business to pay the bills and put me through uni, back in the days when people thought computers were powered by pixie dust and magic!

lulu_92

Moved out when I was 19 into a student house. Moved back four months later when it didn't work out, then moved in with OH a year later.

We're selling his house in the new year and getting one together

rach_k

I was 24 and moved out when I got married. We did get married quickly but OH's culture is that you don't live together until married. If I was with somebody else, I expect I would live with them first.

I don't think I'd have moved out on my own unless I needed to move away for work. I get on well with my mum and paid my share so it would have been silly to move out and leave us both worse off.

19lottie82

I moved out in to a flat share when I was 18, my god, what a dump it was! I stayed in flat shares until I was 27, when I bought my own place.

Faith177

My mum moved out of the parental home and left me behind aged 20 :rotfl:

SoulUK

Left Last year, bought a flat with OH aged 26

lazer

Moved out at 18 to go to Uni, but was home weekends and holidays.


Got a job in the same town as my uni but kept going home for weekends etc.


At 28 got a new job closer to home, so moved home for over a year before buying my own place at 29.


Now married but still have a room at "home" and stay regularly.

Guest101

Poppie68 wrote: »

I was 18 I left work one night and decided I couldn't do that job forever got home packed a case told my parents I was going to leave Lancashire the next day and try London... they laughed, I arrived in Euston the next lunchtime got a cheap hotel for the night sorted and 2 days later got a job that came with a room... Never moved back to Lancashire...my husband left at 16 when he joined the Army.

Exact opposite, left London for Lancashire when I was 18, still here ten years on

supermassive

19 when my probation period at work had finished and it was definitely permanent. Good ol' DWP wages were more than enough...

This is a startling reality for modern day Britain. Unless you're super-rich, you're pretty much unable to be financially independent until you're about 30, unless you're in a very very good career, which, once again leads to rich.

snowscreamer

I was at uni from 18 to 21 coming home for the holidays and my parents made it clear after I graduated that I was to move out as soon as I had found a flat. They did however help me financially to buy a flat, there is no way I could have afforded to buy a flat on my own without that so I guess I would have either stayed at home and saved (if relations remained cordial!) or gone into a house/flat share. I'm 27 now and recently bought a house with my boyfriend.

Out of my 7 close friends from school (all 26-27):

1 owns 2-bed house with husband (not sure if they had help or not but it's a much cheaper area)
1 owns 3-bed house with boyfriend (financial help from parents) (me)
1 owns a 1-bed flat (financial help from parents) - London
1 owns a 2-bed flat with her sister (financial help from parents) - London
1 rents a 2-bed flat with a friend - London
1 rents a room in a shared house (4 of them in the house) - London
1 lives with her parents


From what I see on Facebook of other contemporaries from school people are starting to buy rather than rent and there are not many still living with parents (although there are a significant few) but it's generally small flats, only a few people have bought houses. And most of those people are buying with their boyfriend/fianc!/husband, not many people have been able to buy on their own. And I also suspect there is a fair amount of financial help from parents. Genuinely don't know how people manage to buy, especially in London and the home counties, without financial help. My boyfriend and I worked out that if we hadn't had any help we'd probably only afford a 1-bed flat in a decent area or something a bit bigger on the wrong side of the tracks. So grateful for parents.