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Depends on how you define "moving out". I left my parent's house at 15, but lived with my aunt during high school, so I wasn't on my own. I guess for being on my own, it would be 18.
I have a question for the American folks, why do some of you graduate at 19? Doesn't everybody start at 6 and end at 18?
 
I was 18, and was going to art school. But I would have gone at 18 anyway, I think, I couldn't wait to move out from home and away from my home town.
 
16, for a brief while, and went back home. Then moved out again at 17. It was my own choice, I had some problems and things going on that I didn't want my mother having to deal with. She had been through enough trying to raise a very rotten teenager. 😱

So 17.
 
I bought my first apartment at 18 as I couldn't stand being in the same house with my mother's third husband (complete *******). Looong time ago now.

Of course, my mother now lives in OUR house... 🙄
 
Depends on the definition of "moving out".

When I was 18 I moved to my own apartment at the same house as my mother still lives in. (Paid rent and had separate entrance, kitchen, bath, the works.) So that's when I moved out.

At 26 I bought an apartment (with my girlfriend) elsewhere and moved away.

Now, at 38, after a few other moves around Bergen, I'm in the process of moving back into the house I grew up in, ironically the same apartment I moved out of 12 years ago, so you might say I'm moving back home. 🙂

Now the 4 apartment house is going to be inhabited of 1) My mother and her boyfriend 2) My 93 year old grandmother 3) My brother and his extended family and 4) My girlfrend and I. Could be troublesome, but mostly nice, I guess... 😉
 
Don't remember exactly, but it was around 25 or 26, I think. I still lived at home while studying, then moved out when I had a job and wanted to live together with my girlfriend (now wife).
 
^ That's quite reassuring 😀
JBazz said:
I for one have never understood todays lingering childhood. And I do not buy it when people say they cant afford it. It isnt that you cant afford it, but that you cannot maintain your parents lifestyle.
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Nope, I really can't afford it 🙂 In my line of work I only get paid after a couple of years but it quickly brings in a couple of years wages.

Chances are I'll move out once I'm signed with a publisher and after my girlfriend has spent a year back at home. Putting it at 24, likely.
 
teflon said:
Depends on how you define "moving out". I left my parent's house at 15, but lived with my aunt during high school, so I wasn't on my own. I guess for being on my own, it would be 18.
I have a question for the American folks, why do some of you graduate at 19? Doesn't everybody start at 6 and end at 18?
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For most people yes it is 5-18 they are in school. Some people are 19 because they where held back a year in the younger grades. General k-3 and that is what gets them 19 when they finish HS.
 
Moved out-ish when I went to Uni at 18. My parents were still partly supporting me and I went home most holidays. Moved out "for real" at the end of Uni (so when I was 22) when I moved to London.
 
i signed the lease on my first apartment at 19, and i've been on my own ever since. i was in school full time and working at least 35 hours a week, and i learned a lot about responsibility.

i've had two brief returns to my parents' house (for 2 months after college was done and 3 months when i left my ex) but it drove me crazy both times. 🙄 still, i appreciate that they were willing to help me out when i needed it, even though i had assured them that i'd never be back.

i guess i'm just fiercely independent and just enjoy having a place of my own. 😀
 
I was 17. Had to quit high school and find a job and a place of my own 'cause my folks were moving and there wasn't a place for me. I got over it and moved on....
 
I was on my own when I graduated high school. I went through some years where I would've moved back in a second. I can only imagine if I pocketed all that rent for the better part of a decade!
 
Like many others I moved out of my parents place when I left for Uni at 19. I wasn't financially independant until almost a year after graduation. I hated being a mooch, but I got a few good jobs around my 3rd year making the drain on my parents account as light as possible.
 
17 when I went to college. I rented a room from a guy with a house near campus. My parents paid my tuition, but everything else... I was fending for myself.

My girlfriend on the other hand... lived at home with her parents until she was 29. 😱
 
Rodimus Prime said:
For most people yes it is 5-18 they are in school. Some people are 19 because they where held back a year in the younger grades. General k-3 and that is what gets them 19 when they finish HS.
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This is probably a stupid question, but why would the school hold a K-3 student back? It's not like you can fail kindergarten.
 
I left for university at 18. Spent the first summer break at home, but then moved into an apartment and didn't come back for more than a day or two at a time. After graduation at the age of 22 I moved back in with the parents for about a year and a half, moving out permanently into a condo my future wife and I were buying at the age of 24. Ten years later and I haven't gone back.

All three of my older brothers left after high school. Two briefly came back for a couple of months while in between apartments, but otherwise they did not return. None went on to higher education, all left and went to work. The one that did not return to our parents home just picked up and moved to California from the midwest at the age of 18. He's still there 27 years later.

teflon said:
I have a question for the American folks, why do some of you graduate at 19? Doesn't everybody start at 6 and end at 18?
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It depends on your birthdate. Some areas of the U.S. put the cutoff for enrollment as early as August 1st. If you are born after that you can't enroll for school until the following year. Often times, parents will falsify birth certificates or turn to private schools with more liberal admission policies. My longest/oldest friend had this issue. He is only four months younger than me, but he was an entire grade behind me because of a November birthday.
 
The very day I turned 18 and could legally put my signature on a rental form. Never looked back and propably never will.
 
teflon said:
This is probably a stupid question, but why would the school hold a K-3 student back? It's not like you can fail kindergarten.
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Quite often a child is just not ready to move on and needs another year to mature. it is a lot easier to hold some one back in a younger grade to give them that extra year they need to get on a more even playing field. Some kids are just not ready to move on maturity wise so you get them younger and give them that time. General it is only done once in the younger grade and then never again.

A older reason done in the past was for sports for guys. It would let them be a year older and still being playing giving them a slight edge. This is not done as often as it used to be.
 
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