Age you left home

[lamina]

At what age did you leave home?

Obv don't answer if you haven't left home yet.

 

[kretzy]

I was 18, nearly 19 when I moved out to go to uni. I'm still home most weekends though so I haven't really disconnected in that sense though (as much as I'd like to).

 

[3nm]

15

 

[mashinhead]

i left around 19-20 but then came back for a bit and left again. now of course i am gone for good.

 

[someguy]

I was 20. I moved out of my parents' house and into a place with my girlfriend. This was just last June. 🙂

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I was 18. Didn't move long though, as there is 4 apartments in the house where I grew up (of which my mother owns/controls 3), and I just moved one floor down, and later vertically to the other side of the house when my grandmother moved into "my" flat.

Didn't buy my first place until I was 26...

 

[Jaffa Cake]

!9, at which point I flitted off to university.

 

[lamina]

Jeez this makes me feel kinda weird.

I'm 22 in my 2nd year of university...

I don't get how people my age can afford to live on their own. Stuff costs a lot of money.

 

[vniow]

I was 20 I think then I moved out permanently. I had a temporary arrangement away from home when I was 19 but I didn't leave permanently until a year later. They were moving back across the country around that time to some place I really really didn't want to be so I moved in with my now ex-girlfriend (which was a disaster but that's a different thread).

 

[Jaffa Cake]

I don't get how people my age can afford to live on their own. Stuff costs a lot of money.

Indeed. I coped by cutting down on unnecessary stuff wherever I could. 😱

Are you looking to move out of your parents at the moment then, lamina?

 

[flopticalcube]

24 😱 but that was a couple of decades ago!

 

[SamIchi]

Almost 23 and still at home... I have no need to live on my own as of now, but it would be nice to live somewhere else. Hopefully when I transfer I'll get to go somewhere cool.

 

[thedude110]

I don't get how people my age can afford to live on their own. Stuff costs a lot of money.

Imagine, then, the kids who have home leave them (or get passed off from home to home, or live in group homes, etc.).

 

[Lau]

I couldn't wait to leave home and moved out when I was 18, having desperately wanted to since I was about 13 or 14. I ended up staying with my parents again for six months when I was 22 to get some money together before I started uni. Funnily enough, it was actually fine, I think because I'd grown up a lot, and my parents had got more used to me doing my own thing.

In spite of always having been fiercely independent (to my own detriment more often than not) I was actually really jealous of all the other (slightly younger) students who got to pop back home for a couple of months when they finished uni last summer. The way it all worked out I had to go flat hunting and move cities and look for jobs pretty much a week after I finished and all I really wanted was to go home to my old room and sleep and maybe have my mum make a nice dinner. 😛 It was strange, because it's almost 10 years since I left home, my dad's filled my old room with junk, and I haven't had any of my stuff there for 5 years. I think I was just really, really tired last summer. 😀

 

[3nm]

Jeez this makes me feel kinda weird.

I'm 22 in my 2nd year of university...

I don't get how people my age can afford to live on their own. Stuff costs a lot of money.

don't feel weird, be glad that you have the choice of staying at home. my financial situation would be much better if i had that option.

 

[gauchogolfer]

Left for university at 18, haven't lived there permanently since then, though I would spend summers there while an undergrad. That ended when I was 22 and off to grad school.

 

[Queso]

Two days after my 19th birthday 🙂

 

[sushi]

Just turned 18 when I moved out.

I was 24 when moved out of the country for the first time! 🙂

 

[smueboy]

Jeez this makes me feel kinda weird.

I'm 22 in my 2nd year of university...

I don't get how people my age can afford to live on their own. Stuff costs a lot of money.

I stayed all the way through Uni (to save money and cos i get along well with my parents) - then i buggered off overseas!

 

[gadgetgirl85]

I'm 21 and still living at home. I couldn't afford to rent 🙁 I'm trying to save up a deposit for a house eventually

 

[iRachel]

23 for me - when I left for graduate school. I lived at home as an undergraduate.

 

[CrackedButter]

I left when I was 25. I'm 26 now.

 

[Grakkle]

Mostly out since I was 19, but back for a few months off and on.

 

[Fearless Leader]

where is the 40+?

 

[Abstract]

I moved to uni accomodations when I was 19, and moved out of the country for the first time when I was 20. 🙂

I've been moving further and further away from home ever since. 😛 The place on Earth that's the exact geographical opposite of Toronto is in the Indian Ocean, although moving to Perth, Australia would be close enough.