When did you move out of your parental home?

fredtheguava

I moved out at 18 (and 2 months!) to go to Uni, and never went back. At 19 I moved to Canada for a year abroad - best thing I ever did in terms of independence! - but had a house share waiting for me when I got back for my final year of uni. I got a full time job straight after graduating, to tide me over, then used a working holiday visa to go back to Canada for 6 months before starting my postgrad course at uni. That led to the career I've now been in for 7 years. In that time, I've been a lodger, shared with girlfriends, lived with friends, and had a flat on my own. I now live with the girl I plan to spend the rest of my life with in a 2 bedroom flat near to the city centre.

I'm now 30 and buying a house is finally starting to feel like a real possibility rather than a dream. I don't regret having moved out when I did, and I would have hated moving back to my parents' house after the freedom I'd had in shared houses or living alone. I don't know if I could ever had grown up properly without moving out. My parents still see me as their 'little girl' and it's a challenge to get them to see me as an adult. I imagine that would have been even more the case if I was still under their roof! I'm definitely of the 'my house, my rules' mindset and would have found it difficult to live under their rules.

Move out, if you possibly can. You sound ready!

TBagpuss

I left to go to university when I was 18, although still went home for holidays. Then lived back at home for a year for my post grad course before leaving 'properly'when that finished, so 22.

I did move back in temporarily when I was about 30, as I changed jobs, and my parents kindly let me stay while I waited for my house to sell (having moved 150 miles for the new job!) As I was still paying the mortgage on the house I owned they didn't charge me rent but I paid an equal share of all the bills and food, and did my share of the cooking and cleaning, so they were slightly better off with me being there than not.

I'm one of 4 kids and we were all much the same. I think all of us stating in shared, rented accommodation when we first moved out.

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Returned home from uni at 22 (June) to finish my dissertation for my masters, started my first job 200 miles away the following January.

I don't know many people of my age (34) that lived at home for long after graduating

InsideInsurance

I always find these types of threads really surprising.

Went to uni at 19 but had intended to come home during the summer holidays so not really moved out but after 3 weeks of being back home in the first summer I'd had enough and went back to our digs and have never been back for more than a couple of days visits.

Clearly there is an attraction to having lots of disposable income by living out of your parents pockets and it would have been fantastic to move out with enough money to use as a deposit to buy a property but there is no way I could live in the same house as my parent(s) and I am really surprised at others who arent itching to get out.

Was hard, was sharing for years, often in fairly dire places but it was our place, our rules, our life and whilst often in debt, sometimes wondering how the next meal would be paid for, I was the master of my own destiny and there was no way at any time I would have sacrificed that even for a big lump of cash to be able to buy a nice house.

flipper_72

I went to Uni but went home every holiday so didn't really move out then, I then traveled for a year, but all my stuff was at my parents, I moved back in for 4 months whilst I got a FT job and it was the hardest 4 months of my life, I felt smothered!
Once I moved out (5 miles away) I visited home a few times a week, sometimes every day, I just couldn't live there any more.

pickledonionspaceraider

Moved out at 15 - didn't even take exams at school

christineperseus

Aged 20 to marry 1st Husband.

burlington6

Not sure going to uni really counts

McCloud1

Dad suffered from mental illness his whole life making home-life somewhat unbearable, and messed me up pretty badly, so I moved out at 17.

It's been a painful 7 years financially, and it sucks working so hard for little spare money, but it's totally worth the struggle in my view. I'm now becoming financially comfortable and know how to administer my affairs and look after myself at the ripe old age of 24. I think it's good to get the challenging part out of the way early, that way you can still enjoy being young without being broke and stressed all the time.

Bluebell68

age 16 1/2 best thing I did
other than having my lads


got flat was already working full time never looked back