Moving out of home ...

So ... When did you guys move out of home? Or, for those guys still at home - when do you plan to? Do you hit a certain age where it is "wrong" to still be living at home - all expenses paid?!

I'm 20, and I live at home. I go to school fulltime and have a fulltime office job as well. I don't reallly feel the need to get out per se, but I would like to, b/c I feel the time is right for me and I'm ready to have my own space that I can call my own.

I think it's understandable if you're in school still.... I think it'd obviously best if you don't live at home for too long, but I can understand living at home if you're still in school.

I think it is relatively personal... what's right for you might not be what is right for me, etc. Having said that, I don't see why past the age of 25, at the oldest, one would still be living at home. Unless you somehow hit a huge financial barrier, like enormous medical bills or something of the like, then you should have moved out by then at the very latest.

Yea I'm 20 as well. Working part-time and full-time at college. It's funny you say 25 at being the latest - given I actually plan to move out at 25. I just can't justify paying rent to pay someone else's mortgage. I'd rather save the cash for a deposit on a house - and hopefully by 25, I'll have enough to do that

I agree partially with the paying rent to pay someone's mortgage... Hell, I just want to get out to have a place my girlfriend and I can stay without gettin bugged, where I can watch the NFL on Sundays instead of some other shows, that kinda thing.
I think the reason you can live at home and go to school and not be judged very much is because the focus needs to be on schoolwork. It'd be insanely hard to live on your own only with a part-time job, even if you had that desire. I have a 50-hr a week job, and it's hard for me to find somewhere to live, let alone trying to get through 18 credit hours a semester on top of it.

Oh yea I totally agree with your reasons for moving out! I think everyone hits that age where they just want out. But I guess each person has to make a practical decision. For me, I'm willing to deal with the annoyance of parental "rules" for another 5 or so years - if that means I'll have greater financial security in the future.

50 hours a week?? What do you do??

I moved out at 17 for college.

Originally Posted by Presto87

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50 hours a week?? What do you do??


I'm the Risk coordinator for a mid-sized trucking corporation. We have about 1,000 trucks, and anytime one of them gets into a wreck, or needs a repair, or something is wrong with the cargo, everything to get the truck fixed, or gathering police reports, and that kind of thing all has to be done through me. Sometimes I actually have to find evidence for our company lawyer and twice now I've actually been involved in the actual case... it's pretty sweet. I work about 40 hours in the office, but I'm on call 24 hours a day every day. Inevitably, all the worst wrecks always happen at 2-3 in the morning and I have to wake up then and take care of it.

at 15 my folks seperated, and I eneded up on my own. best thing that ever happened to me, in terms of personal growth. I think that a boy should be working towards moving out of his parents house, as soon as he can.

I left home at 17, leaving behind the car I had purchased for my mother the summer before with farm work earnings. I come from a pretty blue collar area, my story was not all that uncommon. I mean, I had a friend, who's father was a garbage man, tell him that he needed to drop out of school in Grade 10 or get a part time job to pay rent, as that was all the schooling the old man had, and after all, he'd done okay I wish I had been part of the "Lucky Sperm" club and born into affluence; it just took me a little longer to totally do it on my own.

Originally Posted by globetrotter

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at 15 my folks seperated, and I eneded up on my own. best thing that ever happened to me, in terms of personal growth. I think that a boy should be working towards moving out of his parents house, as soon as he can.
This may surprise you globe, but I'm trying my hardest to move out of my house within the next year. My parents don't seem to think I can do it but I'm ready to prove them wrong.

Originally Posted by Connemara

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This may surprise you globe, but I'm trying my hardest to move out of my house within the next year. My parents don't seem to think I can do it but I'm ready to prove them wrong.

I'm confused - you say that you're trying your hardest to move out of home, but didn't you post a thread about dumb things that your room-mate says?

If you have a room-mate, doesn't that mean that you already live away from home?

Originally Posted by Journeyman

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I'm confused - you say that you're trying your hardest to move out of home, but didn't you post a thread about dumb things that your room-mate says?

If you have a room-mate, doesn't that mean that you already live away from home?

That's his roommate at college. He lives at home during the summer & winter breaks.

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

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That's his roommate at college. He lives at home during the summer & winter breaks.
Yep.

^^

Why don't you and kwilkinson bunk up?

I'm 25, graduated from college, have a full time job and a girlfriend of 5 years, but I'm not moving out for another 1-2 years.

My parents don't want me to rush out either, no reason to. My gf is thinking about getting her pHD and I'm thinking about going for my masters (I'm an artist by trade, but I have a regular joe schmoe state job for money). If I get a masters I'll be set to teach at the college level which will afford me plenty of vacation days as opposed to the eternal grind of working at a standard job.

On top of that my gf might go to Portland for her pHD, so after about a year I might go up there too and we'd get our own place.

If I find myself single for whatever reason, I won't move out until my parents force me to. I'll have no reason and I definately have no interest in pursuing another relationship after this one. I have no desire for children, no desire to get married and no desire for partying or casual sex.

All I really want to do is travel (preferrably with my gf), buy clothes and create art.