after being out of the house for years, would you move back to save money? ;p - Page 2

sorry, I wouldn't. good luck

I moved back home a few years ago after two years on my own at college. The big difference for me was that I was going to school full-time, barely working, and was suddenly "cut off" from my parents finances. I didn't have enough time to find another place to live and stayed there for almost a year until I moved into my current place. At the time, I wasn't financially independent, had no real job and wasn't sure where my life was going. Now I've been on my own again for about three years, I have a good job, I just graduated, and I'm getting married in a couple months. Even without the impending marriage, I don't see a situation in which I'd choose to move back in. My relationship with my parents was very stressed when I lived at home, my finances suffered since I had to drive 350+ miles a week to get a job (and not a good one), and I had no social life. Moving out forced me to get my shit together and allowed me the freedom to establish my relationship with my fiancee, focus on school, and work towards the career I have now. I wasn't able to save much at all, but it was worth it. That's just my experience, though. Obviously yours will be different.

No. Never. ever do that. EVER. In fact I would advise you to try to put at least one ocean between you and your family.

g33k, there are so many things I could say, but they wouldn't be productive, so I won't say them.

I am about to do something like this. I graduate with my BA in a few days, and within a week I'm moving back in with my parents. For me the decision was between being able to focus on further schooling, saving money, and doing what I need to to get into graduate school and working for a year, spending ten's of thousands of dollars, and having to work to get by as well as full time classes. My relationship with my parents is good, although constricted in the sense that I'm not generally my "full" self around them, I still act like their son as opposed to the full adult that I am. I'm taking this next year or two (and who knows, I could move out as things progress, but I don't plan on it) to really get myself on track. I figure drinking and pot smoking will have to decrease while living at home, haha, I'll have less distractions, and its always been easier to be consistent with the gym and healthy eating. Yes, I'm not gonna have it be very easy to meet girls, but I'm not going home to meet girls, I'm going home to finish pre-medical requirements and try to get into medical school. In the end you have to weigh your options and decide whether you want to consider things in the short or long term. In the short term I'd be happier staying on my own, but in the long term I'll save 10's of thousands of dollars and hopefully be able to focus more on school/medical school preparation and be more successful for it.