How old were you when you left home?
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Baked_bean said:
Hey guys,
Ive just finished uni and i am back home with the parents for now. I don't think its terribly abnormal to be living at home at the age of 21, but how old were you guys when you left the nest (university doesn't really count)?
Went to uni at 21, 4yr course, so had stuff "at home" until 25 and stayed there in the holidays.Ive just finished uni and i am back home with the parents for now. I don't think its terribly abnormal to be living at home at the age of 21, but how old were you guys when you left the nest (university doesn't really count)?
With the current housing market and rental costs increasing, I think many more people will be moving in with parents after uni.... after all a 10% deposit is a lot; 25% is an awful lot!
Left Uni after 4 years with no job, went travelling for a few months, spent most of a year back with my parents, got a local job while applying for more "career" jobs, left the following September, just after my 23rd birthday. Moving back to parents isn't something I'd use as a long term plan, but it was a useful stop-gap and allowed me to get a better idea of what I wanted to do.
Edit: Now 34 so left home in 1999. Rented in London with a friend. And of course, I now live at home again, it's my home here in Bath. My parents house is just that, not home anymore.
Edit: Now 34 so left home in 1999. Rented in London with a friend. And of course, I now live at home again, it's my home here in Bath. My parents house is just that, not home anymore.
Edited by ewenm on Tuesday 31st August 22:12
Left home at 16 the day after I left school, I didn't stay on to do 'A' levels or University. I got the coach to London, then the train to the South of France. I bummed around the ports looking for work, and a few days after leaving school I was crew on a mega yacht. I went all around the Mediterranean, then across to the Caribbean and onto Florida. I didn't go home for four years, not because I had fallen out with anyone, I was having a ball.
Baked_bean said:
Hey guys,
Ive just finished uni and i am back home with the parents for now. I don't think its terribly abnormal to be living at home at the age of 21, but how old were you guys when you left the nest (university doesn't really count)?
I left at 23. The last three years it was more like a motel though, just used it for a bed and a place to do my Uni work. I spent most of the rest of my time out with friends, staying at my girlfriends or away. As soon as I finished Uni I was out of there.Ive just finished uni and i am back home with the parents for now. I don't think its terribly abnormal to be living at home at the age of 21, but how old were you guys when you left the nest (university doesn't really count)?
- Edit* Rented for two years whilst working full time and saving for a deposit, purchased house at 25 a year ago. I've only stayed at the parental home three times in three years, twice because I went to parties in the village and wanted to drink and the third over Xmas last year. I do visit most weeks though.
Edited by Merlot on Tuesday 31st August 21:52
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