at what age did you first move out from ur parents?

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watdahel

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Moving out is so over-rated. Thirty and going strong and still at home. If they want me to move out they'd better build me a house in the backyard.

No haters, please.
 

zerocool84

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18 but now im 22 and back with my mom. Feels good to be back home and get home cooked meals instead of microwave cooked burgers.
 

DangerAardvark

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I moved out when I was 12. I worked 2 jobs (one in a coal mine and one as a phone sex operator), which I had to walk 5 miles through the snow and 2 miles over broken glass everyday to get to. I used plastic bags for shoes, shoes for gloves, and gloves for a hat! We didn't know any better back then. It was a simpler time.
 

elmro

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"Moved out" when I was 18 and left for college. I lived in the dorms for 2 years, then moved off campus for the last 2 years. The second I left for college, I never "moved back" home. The summer between and after dorming I also lived off campus. During my college education, my parents provided me cash for rent (in lieu of room and board, it actually was a ton cheaper to live off campus). I didn't start paying my own rent until the day I graduated college.
 

Allanv

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16, but thats the school leaving age here in the UK.

and i supported myself by getting a damn job, i am 39 now
 

Kadarin

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I refuse to answer because you appear to not be able to converse in proper English.
 

vhx

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I thought you weren't considered an adult until 18. As in parents are required to take care of you?

Also... how does a 17 year old afford living on their own?
 

1sikbITCH

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When I was 17 I left Baltimore and hitchhiked to Texas with $20. When I got out of jail in Texas I was ordered to leave and not come back and so at 18 I came back to Baltimore, got a job in a box factory, and after 2 months sleeping under a bridge and showering at a girlfriend's house, I got an apartment in a rundown complex for $250 a month. This was back in the 80's.

 

BrownTown

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Going to college is not "moving out" in my book by any means, if you are paying your entire way through college you are coming close, but if you go back to your parents house each summer than you have not "moved out" yet.

Personally I am 22 and have not moved out yet, although hopefully I will have moved out before I turn 23 since I am graduating college, just need that job offer and I'm out for good.
 

SpiderWiz

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Originally posted by: erwin1978
Moving out is so over-rated. Thirty and going strong and still at home. If they want me to move out they'd better build me a house in the backyard.

No haters, please.

My brother in law has you beat. He is 48 and still lives with his mom. Never moved out.


I'm moved out when I was 20.