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Do you still live with your parents?

Ivan Kipling

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I would still strive to make my own way.
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Soph, do you feel that living inside a family home impedes one's 'making his own way?' My sister and I run our business from this house. We've been doing that for fifteen years. At this point in our lives, we need many thousands of dollars each month to maintain our father, who has been institutionalized in Florida for around ten years. What purpose would have been served to abandon a home that was paid for, has plenty of room, can serve as an office site and as cost goes today, is economically efficient for my sister and me?
 

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My parents (read my mother) wanting to keep their sons close to them, anticipated all this and we moved when I was 18 into a new apartment which was actually 2 apartments on the same floor. This way, we were given total independence to come in and out and essentially do whatever we want - but we were just one door down so they would see us very often (probably once a day).

I think that strategy pushed our desire to move out to a later stage - I mean the whole thing was free! (including food in the fridge at all times). So I "moved out" (i.e. to a different location) when I was 25 but my brother didn't "move out" until the age of 30
 

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This thread makes me long for ernest to be let back in...
 

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Yea, I'm still at home. I'll be off to college wherever that may be when I am 18. At least I got to design my bedroom
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I moved out just before my 18th birthday. Had I known then what I know now, I would have stayed another 5 years and saved money by living at home. Living on my own at that age means that I never really got ahead, financially, and incurred a lot of credit card debt as a result.
 

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jabsin . . . when I was growing up about a hundred years ago, the wealthy young people in town lived in big, comfortable houses, with their parents. After a young man married, it was not unusual in the least, for him to bring his 'bride' to his parents' home, where the two of them set up housekeeping. As time passed, the owners of the house either died off, retired, or simply gave the house to their children. These young men became the leaders in our community, always had plenty of money, and tended to look relaxed. This was of course, before divorce became quite so prevalent.
Rich people have sometimes had a tendency, to live 'together.' Louis XIV moved his court to Versailles, in part so he could keep an eye on their activities. The Kennedy clan, had their compound in Massachusetts. Remember the television series, Dallas?? Everyone lived together, at Southfork. Same with Bonanza. Three grown men, all living in one house, with their father.
Things are different of course, if survival is an issue. Even then, large families sometimes lived in one big farmhouse, in order to 'work' the property.
 

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Originally Posted by Soph
You are not a man unless you have the ambition to make your own way.
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Having lived 10,000+ miles away from my parents for since senior year in HS, I doubt I would ever regret it. In fact, I decided to stay here for an internship (starting in 2 weeks) instead of going back home for the summer like most of my friends for this exact same reason.
 

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Moved out just before my 18th birthday to go to college 800 miles away and never went back except for vacations. This led to some very stressful times when I wasn't sure I could make it financially, but in retrospect it built substantial self-confidence. I'm now 46.
 

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I moved out a few months shy of 18 to attend college, and have been on my own and paying my own way ever since!
 

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The type of lifestyle that the younger generations wish for, and their relative lack of financial means, necesitate staying with the parents. I'm rather ambivalent about the whole thing, it's just so expensive to be able to afford housing and basic nourishments. This is a very common trend.
 

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Move out at 20 to go to college, though I live less than 10 miles away and my mother subsidizes my rent.
 

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I'm finishing undergrad in about two weeks and I'll be moving back in with my parents. For me it will be a chance to work, save money and make music. I won't be paying rent, my meals are provided for and I have few other responsibilities so it makes a lot of sense for me right now. How long I stay will depend on various factors including how crazy my parents make me.
 

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I'm only 17 but in 2/3 years, as soon as I graduate HS and do my first year at community college, i'm going to a uni. Between Portland State University and University of Oregon.
 

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Hmm... not since I was 17 or so... Did my two year conscription then days later left the country for university, 5k or so miles away. Have not lived at home (or even in same continent) since except for the occasional short trips back home to see parents & relatives...
 

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