I think it's about time to move out of home

[Snotty]

Originally posted by Joseph
Was out at 17 and never been back.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Zylka


No, I'm him.

Seriously, I'm me. I post under Oerdin.

[Jon Miller]

IOwent to college at 17

I came back for two summers, but hated that..

not been back (for more then 2 weeks or so) since

JM

[Gibsie]

Left at 18 to go to uni, but had to go back and live with my dad after graduation. Unfortunately in the meantime he had sold our lovely old semi near where many of my friends live, and moved into a horrible mobile home (that's right kids: I'm trailer trash!). Having to live there for a few months was enough to mean that I will never, ever go back to live with my father.

[Dinner]

BTW I was out at 18 then back at 19 then out at 21 then back at 24 then out at late 24. It seems like lots of people have done the yo-yo back to the parents.

[Jon Miller]

and honestly 2 weeks was too long

less than a week seems about right, unless I have my own car (and computer)

JM

[Dinner]

Jon, how can you be your age, go to grade school, and not have a car? You live in the US after all.

[Gibsie]

I know pretty much every teenager in the US gets a car, but gradeschoolers now? Yow...

[Dinner]

I now recall JM saying his car was having trouble. I guess he has a car but that it is temperarially broken.

[Jon Miller]

yeah

but also, I live on the east coast

my family lives in Oregon

I dont' drive out to see them

JM
(just as I haev 3 computers here, I have no computers there (no laptops that are decent))

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, I went to university at 18 so I moved out during term time and then moved back in permanently at 22. I moved out again at 26 and now live where I am now...

[Dauphin]

My parents moved out when I came back from university.

[Dauphin]

Not really, just they are hardly ever around, so why move out?

[Gibsie]

You killed them, didn't you? And then ate them. I know what you accountants are like.

[GePap]

Are people counting college as "moving out"? I have had the "luck" of living alone, at home, most of the time, since the parents are off elsewhere.

Living in NYC would be far too expensive on my small salary otherwise. Its sad how this City is to expensive for its own workers....

As for moving out, well, its a financial issue. I don't get the people who think theyr are not "independent" unless they are elswhere. Maybe its because my parents collect a small rent, and expect me to upkeep the place, plus pay my own expenses. I certainly do not share the full cost of owning this place, but its fair, since neither do I reap the full benefits.