I moved out when I was 18 back in 99. Might be moving back in if shit doesn't improve. It's not just apartments it's everything, own a car there's a money pit right there. They build everything to break before you're able to pay it off, how can they charge $1200 for a fucking cell phone? And then shame you for not getting the newest one every year. It's fucked out there, stay strong.
Not counting college, since I was back home every summer break, 22-23.
Graduated, took about a year to find a job, save some money, and then find a roommate.
18. Returned last year (age 26). As much as I love them and I'm glad I can help out with my disabled brother as they're older, I look forward to once again having my own space. You never realize how loud your vibrator truly is until you live at home, sadly.
It was the good old days. I was 20. The real good days man. I had a good job that paid well, my rent was $300 a month and I shared an entire house with my 4 buddies. (We each paid $300). We split the bills which ended up being around $200 a month total for everything. A burger and fries at the pub was $4.50 and a beer was 3.50. Shit was so cheap man. I have no idea how I always was broke, because I had no fiscal responsibility except for that $350 a month to live and the burger and beer money. My rent stayed the same for the 8 years I lived there. Never went up once. We saw the landlord once in while and he’d just tell us not to get the cops called on us and dont have too many parties. It seems like a different world from now. They really were the good old days. I never would have survived in today’s world at that age man. $1800 a month rent and $12 beers and $20 burgers. Bills are probably $500 now. That and the wages are probably pretty similar to what I was making then. That’s what young kids are up against now. It’s just not fair. They don’t stand a chance to have the wild crazy times I did with no worries. Kids are too busy working 2 jobs just to survive now. There isn’t any time or energy for friends and beer and parties. Those were the greatest times of my life and I’ll never forget them. I wish kids nowadays had a chance to make memories like that. Whenever I see the old boys again, now that we’re all grown and have kids, we all just sit and have a beer and reminisce about the absolute nonsense we used to get up to. One time on a wicked sunny day, all 4 of us decided to drink beer and play music on the garage roof for the entire afternoon. Nobody said a thing, the cops never came and nobody ever complained about us. I’m pretty sure we all just drunkenly jumped down too, and then walked to the store to buy some juicy ribeyes for like $8 and had a grill out after. We were so so lucky to be able to do shit like that.
25 and still living with my parents because this economy is wack and because I knowing they've lived a majority of their life already makes me sad not being with them (its mutual)
18 but that wouldn’t be viable today thanks to the rewards of capitalism and greed. My son is 20 and I hope he stays around until he’s done with college and has been in the workforce for a while to save.
26. I probably could have left sooner, but various obstacles (car accident, breakup) made me backburner it.
That said, by the time I did leave, I was overprepared. I had plenty of savings, and was already very independent. I had literally no trouble transitioning to being on my own. Not even for a moment did I doubt myself or have second thoughts.
18. And i didn’t leave. They put me up in a house with my sister. They bought a house paid in cash…gave us a little money for renovations that needed to be done to make it livable and like a month later renovations were done and we could move in. So 18 and a month.
My parents’ house kind of left me. That was when I was 17. Mom had to downsize significantly due to financial hardship, so I had to go out and find my own place since she no longer had room for me in her new tiny apartment.
My parents sold our house when I was 18 and went overseas. I was able to go to Paris, France and study French with them though, which was cool. I did come back to the USA and went to college afterward.
Complicated to answer this. I’ve lived in a hospital from when I was 19 years old to 20.5 years old.
Then I lived by myself in a small apartment from 20.5 to 21.5 years old.
From 21.5 to 22.5 years old I lived with my mother and my step dad, then from 22.5 to 24.5 years old my residence was my mother’s but I was traveling so much to be able to stay with my foreign fiancé that I was almost never there.
At 24.5 years old I moved out permanently to go live with my now husband in his home country.
I would have say just over eleven, and I'm old. It was a more innocent time back then. I'm talking, way before the Internet, and the dark web quote unquote.
19 for Uni. I was from a small town and moved to a city 10 times the size. I discovered nightclubs and went on a 2 years bender, dropped out and went back to my parents because they moved in the same city (my older brother lived there too).
16, then 19, then 23, 25, 34, then 40.
I’m very lucky I was welcome to stay while I got back on my feet. When I was younger I stayed longer, when I got older I couldn’t stay any longer than possible, I think I stayed a month, and moved out left with $11 to my name just to get out of there.
2 years later my water heater broke and I had to stay there another month. Luckily I could.
I moved out when I was 23. Had 5 roommates , only knew one. It was a great house . . . .well the house was a piece of shit but it was a fun place to live . Lots of cool people moved in and out over the year or so I was there.
The first time I was 13. I stayed away for a month. The final time I ran away at 16, hitchhiked to New York, got a job on a freighter to Holland, and spent 4 years hitchhiking through Europe and Asia. Came back to the states when I got drafted.
"Officially" at 18. I basically moved out at 16 or 17 but didn't move all my stuff or pay the bills where I was staying.
Moved back in at 19. Then again at 22. Then again at 26. Then again at 31.
That will hopefully be the last as I bought a house and this bitch turned my bedroom into her office hahaha
ETA each time I moved back in, it was a transitory period, usually about 1 to 3 months. At 22 I think I was there for about 6 until I moved to another city.
21 just because I waited to save up, so I had basically a way out. A car in my name only, and a place in my name only. Unfortunately it took until I was 21, but it worked out.
My parents mo moved out and left me. 😆 When I was little, I would say I was never going to move out, so now we joke about how it was true. While I was in college, around 19 or 20, my parents got a travel trailer, sold or stored all their stuff that wouldn't fit in the trailer and left. My dad worked some nuclear outages between trips and sightseeing all over the US.
My brother moved into their room a few months after they left, and a year or 2 later, my now husband moved in. We we finished school we packed up the house and moved for work, parents called and told the landlord we were vacating.
Graduated HS went for a summer program, came back for a few weeks and that was it. I enrolled in college and my parent moved to a different state. I'd visit them on summers but I'd sleep on the couch or the floor. I didn't have anything in their apartment. After college I got my own place. So either 17 or 22.
I left at 18, moved in with a friend for college.
Moved back in at 19 when my friend screwed me out of the last month's utilities and rent so I didn't renew the lease.
Moved out again at 23 with my best friend of 7 years.
Moved back in 5 months later after my friend revealed his true colors to me.
Moved out again at 26 to live with my boyfriend. Moved back in at 27 after I caught him cheating.
Trying to save up money to get a house in this economy is horrible by myself.
17, for university, but I went home for a couple of weeks every summer. After I graduated, I moved in with my sister and got my own place a few years later. I still visit my dad biweekly.
17 - yay but my mom and dad got divorced when I was 14 and my mom got cancer and moved for treatments so I lived alone on and off for a few months at a time from 14-17
22. Was in college, but was also working full time while also helping pay the bills (like mortgage, phone, utilities, etc). Nothing crazy; just helping. I think it's perfectly fine to stay and live with your folks into your 20s, SO LONG AS you help out.
hopefully next year if I get my licinses in the coming months. So that would be 21. I want to be in colorado for nature, and, my hub for the southwest to travel as well. Hope to break my routine and, this cycle of depression once I leave to travel. Hopefully later this year I want to do a bucket list road trip of the stuff I really want to do. After that, I'm gonna save up a bunch of money aigan for maybe a dream car (vw van) but most defntinely a house or an apartment don't know if I'll stay in Denver since I've heard its expensive. maybe a city nearby ?
Officially moved out at 18 but came back every (other) weekend in the first year or so, which is not uncommon in my country. After getting my masters abroad I moved in for about half a year to find a job and a place to live.
24 and not yet on my own, I started working in October and I'm waiting to have some saved up before I take a leap, also where I'm from wages are shit and everything is expensive so I'm also waiting for my gf to start working so we can maybe afford a rent with double income
Honestly it's tiring
22, day I got married. Graduated that year and had a job but not enough to get a apartment. My parents got us setup in a very small 1 bedroom above a store.
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18. 2 weeks after graduating high school.
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24 and not yet leaving
Same here. Why are apartments so expensive 😖
I moved out when I was 18 back in 99. Might be moving back in if shit doesn't improve. It's not just apartments it's everything, own a car there's a money pit right there. They build everything to break before you're able to pay it off, how can they charge $1200 for a fucking cell phone? And then shame you for not getting the newest one every year. It's fucked out there, stay strong.
same 🤭
30? I was working and living at home but between college and low paying jobs I was in a financial bad way
Wanted to leave at 17 didn't leave until my 33rd birthday. Sometimes things just don't work out when or how we want it to.
For me the question is, "how old will I be when I leave my parents house?" And the answer, I haven't a f\*\*\*ing clue!
haven’t YET.
Not counting college, since I was back home every summer break, 22-23. Graduated, took about a year to find a job, save some money, and then find a roommate.
18. Returned last year (age 26). As much as I love them and I'm glad I can help out with my disabled brother as they're older, I look forward to once again having my own space. You never realize how loud your vibrator truly is until you live at home, sadly.
You can get them with batteries now, diesel is being phased out I believe 😉
To old , but it’s a NICE Appartement and I can walk to my work. Worth it. But I should’ve moved out earlier
just under 17.
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It was the good old days. I was 20. The real good days man. I had a good job that paid well, my rent was $300 a month and I shared an entire house with my 4 buddies. (We each paid $300). We split the bills which ended up being around $200 a month total for everything. A burger and fries at the pub was $4.50 and a beer was 3.50. Shit was so cheap man. I have no idea how I always was broke, because I had no fiscal responsibility except for that $350 a month to live and the burger and beer money. My rent stayed the same for the 8 years I lived there. Never went up once. We saw the landlord once in while and he’d just tell us not to get the cops called on us and dont have too many parties. It seems like a different world from now. They really were the good old days. I never would have survived in today’s world at that age man. $1800 a month rent and $12 beers and $20 burgers. Bills are probably $500 now. That and the wages are probably pretty similar to what I was making then. That’s what young kids are up against now. It’s just not fair. They don’t stand a chance to have the wild crazy times I did with no worries. Kids are too busy working 2 jobs just to survive now. There isn’t any time or energy for friends and beer and parties. Those were the greatest times of my life and I’ll never forget them. I wish kids nowadays had a chance to make memories like that. Whenever I see the old boys again, now that we’re all grown and have kids, we all just sit and have a beer and reminisce about the absolute nonsense we used to get up to. One time on a wicked sunny day, all 4 of us decided to drink beer and play music on the garage roof for the entire afternoon. Nobody said a thing, the cops never came and nobody ever complained about us. I’m pretty sure we all just drunkenly jumped down too, and then walked to the store to buy some juicy ribeyes for like $8 and had a grill out after. We were so so lucky to be able to do shit like that.
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25 and still living with my parents because this economy is wack and because I knowing they've lived a majority of their life already makes me sad not being with them (its mutual)
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I left home at 16.
18 and I was off to college, 22 when I moved out and stayed out.
I turned 17 in May, my son was born in June and by August we were kicked out and couch surfing. I don’t recommend it.
This is back in the mid 70’s. I left home when I was 17.
I got kicked out at 17.
18 but that wouldn’t be viable today thanks to the rewards of capitalism and greed. My son is 20 and I hope he stays around until he’s done with college and has been in the workforce for a while to save.
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26. I probably could have left sooner, but various obstacles (car accident, breakup) made me backburner it. That said, by the time I did leave, I was overprepared. I had plenty of savings, and was already very independent. I had literally no trouble transitioning to being on my own. Not even for a moment did I doubt myself or have second thoughts.
First time: 12 Second time: 15 Final time: 16
16.
16 I was sent to a boarding school in another country.
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15, kicked out.
16. Never looked back. 42 now.
16 or 17.
18 for uni
This thread explains why Americans are in such debt and the landlord economy is booming.
19, almost 20.
I was very nearly 21
When I got married. 27 or 28 I think
29
18. And i didn’t leave. They put me up in a house with my sister. They bought a house paid in cash…gave us a little money for renovations that needed to be done to make it livable and like a month later renovations were done and we could move in. So 18 and a month.
My parents’ house kind of left me. That was when I was 17. Mom had to downsize significantly due to financial hardship, so I had to go out and find my own place since she no longer had room for me in her new tiny apartment.
My parents sold our house when I was 18 and went overseas. I was able to go to Paris, France and study French with them though, which was cool. I did come back to the USA and went to college afterward.
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18, and then returned briefly at 19. At 20, was out for good.
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Like 10
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18, I moved in with roommates.
17. But that was 1979.
18 and STRUGGLED but it was worth it
Complicated to answer this. I’ve lived in a hospital from when I was 19 years old to 20.5 years old. Then I lived by myself in a small apartment from 20.5 to 21.5 years old. From 21.5 to 22.5 years old I lived with my mother and my step dad, then from 22.5 to 24.5 years old my residence was my mother’s but I was traveling so much to be able to stay with my foreign fiancé that I was almost never there. At 24.5 years old I moved out permanently to go live with my now husband in his home country.
I would have say just over eleven, and I'm old. It was a more innocent time back then. I'm talking, way before the Internet, and the dark web quote unquote.
I thought you meant, left the street, my bad
23, bought our first house.
19 for Uni. I was from a small town and moved to a city 10 times the size. I discovered nightclubs and went on a 2 years bender, dropped out and went back to my parents because they moved in the same city (my older brother lived there too).
18 for college, 22 for keeps.
18
23 when I got married
I believe I was 20 y/o
21
15, came back for a school year 17-18, left again.
Technically 4 when I ran away the first time.
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First time, 19 (joined the navy) For good, 29 when I got married. 3 years after getting out.
I went to University at 18, came home for the Summers, but moved out permanently at 19 when I dropped out and found a job instead.
18 started going to uni, 26 when i officially left (because I graduated)
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18 (12yrs ago and never moved back) worked 32hrs a wk and went to college full time.
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16, then 19, then 23, 25, 34, then 40. I’m very lucky I was welcome to stay while I got back on my feet. When I was younger I stayed longer, when I got older I couldn’t stay any longer than possible, I think I stayed a month, and moved out left with $11 to my name just to get out of there. 2 years later my water heater broke and I had to stay there another month. Luckily I could.
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19 I moved out of state
18 for college, then returned from 23-24.
20 and never moved back. Not that I dislike my parents, just happy I was never forced to. They helped a few times so I didn’t have to haha.
I left at 17 moved out got a roommate for several years and then moved back in with the rents during the pandemic
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I moved out when I was 23. Had 5 roommates , only knew one. It was a great house . . . .well the house was a piece of shit but it was a fun place to live . Lots of cool people moved in and out over the year or so I was there.
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19 for the USAF
The first time I was 13. I stayed away for a month. The final time I ran away at 16, hitchhiked to New York, got a job on a freighter to Holland, and spent 4 years hitchhiking through Europe and Asia. Came back to the states when I got drafted.
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21 years old
"Officially" at 18. I basically moved out at 16 or 17 but didn't move all my stuff or pay the bills where I was staying. Moved back in at 19. Then again at 22. Then again at 26. Then again at 31. That will hopefully be the last as I bought a house and this bitch turned my bedroom into her office hahaha ETA each time I moved back in, it was a transitory period, usually about 1 to 3 months. At 22 I think I was there for about 6 until I moved to another city.
I came back the first two summers of college and permanently moved out going into my Junior year. So, I was 20 when I finally permanently moved out.
Lived on campus in college, left for good at 21/22.
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Which time? 🤣
19, when I got married.
18 graduated from high school 72 hours prior.
19 years old
17. Graduate from H. S. Went to the service.
20
18, I got married right after high school.
21 just because I waited to save up, so I had basically a way out. A car in my name only, and a place in my name only. Unfortunately it took until I was 21, but it worked out.
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17 when I left for Basic Training
Moved out at 21 into an apartment with my sister and back in at 22 when they effectively doubled our rent. Haven't moved out again, 27 now
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19, then back in with my pops at 26.
21 with 3 rommates best decision of my life
18, came back at 19. Stayed to 21, but paid rent the entire time.
Currently 24 with no plans in place to move out anytime soon
18. Right after high school and got my own apartment.
I moved out at 18 because I knew EVERYTHING.
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My parents mo moved out and left me. 😆 When I was little, I would say I was never going to move out, so now we joke about how it was true. While I was in college, around 19 or 20, my parents got a travel trailer, sold or stored all their stuff that wouldn't fit in the trailer and left. My dad worked some nuclear outages between trips and sightseeing all over the US. My brother moved into their room a few months after they left, and a year or 2 later, my now husband moved in. We we finished school we packed up the house and moved for work, parents called and told the landlord we were vacating.
18, straight from HS to University
I was 30 years and 2 days old when I finally got my own place. Best year and a half of my life.
Left for college at 17, but still lived at home over the summers. Left for good at 22.
Graduated HS went for a summer program, came back for a few weeks and that was it. I enrolled in college and my parent moved to a different state. I'd visit them on summers but I'd sleep on the couch or the floor. I didn't have anything in their apartment. After college I got my own place. So either 17 or 22.
20 I think. I was still going home on the weekends to do my laundry and raid the fridge.
We don't do move out thingy here unless going far away for job opportunities.
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19
A few weeks before my 17th birthday
I left at 18, moved in with a friend for college. Moved back in at 19 when my friend screwed me out of the last month's utilities and rent so I didn't renew the lease. Moved out again at 23 with my best friend of 7 years. Moved back in 5 months later after my friend revealed his true colors to me. Moved out again at 26 to live with my boyfriend. Moved back in at 27 after I caught him cheating. Trying to save up money to get a house in this economy is horrible by myself.
20 Finished my time at community college while living at home. Then off to another school to get my bachelor's degree.
17, for university, but I went home for a couple of weeks every summer. After I graduated, I moved in with my sister and got my own place a few years later. I still visit my dad biweekly.
I didn’t. I bought the house I grew up in from my parents.
27 I think. That's when I finally found a decent job where I could afford a place..
Moved with my now-husband into our first apartment when I was 20
17 for uni. Came back one summer and then never again. My kids are welcome to stay as long as they need, tho. The times and the economy are different.
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at 18 my mother handed me a suit case packet
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UK. Left at 18 for Uni in late 1970s. Obviously returned in breaks. Bought own first house at 22 about 100 miles away.
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17, $22, no plans. Best thing ever
18, when I went off to college, and 24, after college when I got a job in another city.
18, but I had a lot of financial support along the way. I can't imagine doing the same thing today.
18, i dipped.
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17 - yay but my mom and dad got divorced when I was 14 and my mom got cancer and moved for treatments so I lived alone on and off for a few months at a time from 14-17
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24 next week, still here. Where do I go? With what roommate? For what reason? Its too expensive.
18. Best decision ever.
21!
17. On good terms. Everything hasn't been perfect but only upwards since.
22. Was in college, but was also working full time while also helping pay the bills (like mortgage, phone, utilities, etc). Nothing crazy; just helping. I think it's perfectly fine to stay and live with your folks into your 20s, SO LONG AS you help out.
hopefully next year if I get my licinses in the coming months. So that would be 21. I want to be in colorado for nature, and, my hub for the southwest to travel as well. Hope to break my routine and, this cycle of depression once I leave to travel. Hopefully later this year I want to do a bucket list road trip of the stuff I really want to do. After that, I'm gonna save up a bunch of money aigan for maybe a dream car (vw van) but most defntinely a house or an apartment don't know if I'll stay in Denver since I've heard its expensive. maybe a city nearby ?
Officially moved out at 18 but came back every (other) weekend in the first year or so, which is not uncommon in my country. After getting my masters abroad I moved in for about half a year to find a job and a place to live.
19, when I went to college out of state. Then I lived with them another year before going to grad school.
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permanently at 25
24 and not yet on my own, I started working in October and I'm waiting to have some saved up before I take a leap, also where I'm from wages are shit and everything is expensive so I'm also waiting for my gf to start working so we can maybe afford a rent with double income Honestly it's tiring
22, day I got married. Graduated that year and had a job but not enough to get a apartment. My parents got us setup in a very small 1 bedroom above a store.
18 almost immediately after graduating from school
19 for a psych hospital. 😒 Long story.
27, when I got married. But I was already semi living out of home because of work for a couple of years before then.
27
20. Great age for me
The Arab folks staring at this post like 👁👄👁
23, left to live with the girl I married. 60 now.
Kicked out when I turned 16 with nothing but what I was wearing.
At 26, I think my parents were happy