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

[Casawi]

17, I left for France to go to college, and here am I 6 years going on 7 in Michigan. I saw them twice since.

 

[quakefiend420]

15 the first time, 18 the second, 24 now and don't plan on there being a third

 

[McGyver]

13

 

[CrackRabbit]

20, a little more than a week after 9/11 and about a month before my 21st birthday.

 

[Locut0s]

I'll be one of those in his 30s for sure.

 

[Deeko]

SoundTheSurrender, you're right. Lets all live at home and not get jobs till we're 30. Who needs em? Our parents will work for us.

 

[skrilla]

18... about a month after graduating high school.

 

[Finalnight]

19

 

[RichardE]

Moved out @ 18, moved abck in @ 21, moving out again soon

 

[mpitts]

19

 

[NL5]

17

Not everyone is an "adult" at the same age. I was at 17. Some never are...............

 

[Juno]

19 but 22 for real.

 

[Pepsi90919]

19

 

[Sphexi]

18, and I'd move back for a few weeks in the summer, but paid rent for the ability to do so. It was just easier than trying to sublet during the summer, and since I was paying for school they weren't supporting me in any way.

 

[techfuzz]

17

 

[Tiamat]

18

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Oh? Tell me what is so moronic about my post, barney.

Am I moronic for going to college and paying for it myself? No, I consider that being responsible.

Am I moronic for saying people that are 18 should go to college, get a job, or join the miliary? I certainly hope not, or else we'll have a society of lazy hippies that don't do anything with their lives.

Am I moronic in saying that you have no excuse for still living at home 2 years have you graduate? This is the only place in my post you could even argue, but I still think you're wrong. If you haven't gone to college (yes, I'm considering that moving out...I'll grant an exception for going to college from home, but I firmly believe people who do this are missing at least 50% of what you gain in college) or gotten a job capable of sustaining yourself within two years of graduating high school, you're officially a leech and need to get your ass in gear.

Tell me again sir, how this is "the most moronic thing ever"?

i can say as a dad, im going to miss my kids when they do leave the house. its not a burden on me, its part of my life ive gotten to enjoy and look forward to (seeing the kids everyday, not the inevitable exodus). i still understand the need to break away from it all and not "leech" off the parents. just make sure to call and visit sometimes, the dads need that.

 

[randay]

hopefully next year, but even then ill just be living about 10 feet above them. living on an island is a bitch...

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Am I moronic in saying that you have no excuse for still living at home 2 years have you graduate? This is the only place in my post you could even argue, but I still think you're wrong. If you haven't gone to college (yes, I'm considering that moving out...I'll grant an exception for going to college from home, but I firmly believe people who do this are missing at least 50% of what you gain in college) or gotten a job capable of sustaining yourself within two years of graduating high school, you're officially a leech and need to get your ass in gear.

Yes, actually, you are and the reason is that you think your arrogant insistence that your particular case is applies to everyone else and that your way of doing things is the only way.

Here's a concept that's probably very foreign to you: parents not only don't consider their kids freeloaders if they stay at home, but would be deeply insulted if their kids left home immediately after school.

According to you, I'm a no-good hippie - I live at home to help my mom out financially (I do make more than her) and because she'd be extremely unhappy if I left. But if I told her to screw off, moved out and started paying a random landlord instead of helping her, that would somehow make me "mature" and "responsible"?

 

[Azndude51]

This is kind of a pointless thread since most people are just posting 17/18/19 for when they go to college. Even if you are paying for your own room/board, it still doesn't count if you move back to your parents during the summer. Moving out should be when you move out PERMANENTLY. I am renting an apartment right now and I don't think I'm moved out since my permanent address for my (for example) car insurance is still my parents house, the company won't let me use my college apartment since I move out during the summer.

So I won't move out until I graduate college and get a job, so hopefully 23.

 

[Born2bwire]

18 and life you got it
18 and life you know
Your crime is time and it's
18 and life to go

 

[MidasKnight]

18 .... US ARMY 1983

 

[Mermaidman]

Just the opposite for me. My family moved away from me when I was 16, so I spent senior yr of HS 'home alone.' I've not lived with them ever since.

 

[Deeko]

*sigh*

you guys play into my hands like clay to the sculpter.

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: Deeko
SoundTheSurrender, you're right. Lets all live at home and not get jobs till we're 30. Who needs em? Our parents will work for us.

Again, you are a douchebag.

Living at home doesn't mean that you don't have a job. In fact, you may have a very well-paying job. It just makes financial sense to live at home, its not like there is that much incremental cost with living at home (house and bedrooms are already there, they would just be empty), and instead of paying some random landlord you are paying your parents.

In many cases, that money would be money that will be yours one day anyway. Might as well keep the money in the family, right? If nothing else, you may inherit a paid for house.

Now the people that haven't gone to college, are working retail/unemployed and spending all of their earnings on alcohol/drugs/video games, yeah they are irresponsible. But that's a different story from the average ATOTer that lives at home. And yeah, we aren't the boomerang generation for nothing --> blame the helicopter parents who aren't exactly forcing us out, either. Personally, I get along with my parents great, and I'd much rather have them as my 'roomates' then a real roomate. When I actually move out as yet to be undecided (really depends on what city I get a job in), as I'm still living somewhat off of them while in graduate school. But then again, my parents may help with the downpayment/outright purchase of the place that I move to, so who knows?