Not in the basement but I?m 21 and still living at home. I would prefer to move out but I get along with my parents so not I?m dying to. I can?t really afford to move out right now with Uni and no job.
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I'm living with my Aunt and Uncle(in a spare bedroom) in Austin TX till I get on my feet. Been here over a year, in between jobs at the moment but just had an Interview today that I think went really well. Going to be starting School at ITT tech to get a degree in CyberSecurity. Hoping by the time I get my Associates in Network System Administration(A year and a Half) I can move to a job in the tech industry. I have good feeling about it because Austin is like silicon Vally the sequel.
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Do you mean literally live in the cellar (sorry, can't ever call it a basement) or just with parents?
I'm essentially a lodger in my mum's house. I pay rent, I provide everything for myself (food, drink, clothes etc.) and she lets me get on with my own life.
Until I can financially support myself or decide to move to a different city, it doesn't make any sense to move out.
I'm essentially a lodger in my mum's house. I pay rent, I provide everything for myself (food, drink, clothes etc.) and she lets me get on with my own life.
Until I can financially support myself or decide to move to a different city, it doesn't make any sense to move out.
The pay is minimal wage and I am not getting a free ride here. I'm paying for rent. The reason I'm not moving out is because the rent is lower than most of my alternatives, I have to pay for my car and I also have to save up money to actually move out for school in Vancouver. Oh and paying for school too.rhizhim said:
All this is exactly where I am. Minus the "nearly 23" part, since I just turned 23. I'm saving my money, but I don't earn enough, and every decent full-time job I interview for tells me how I am "remarkably talented, but they're looking for someone with experience." (And I suppose I technically only live with one parent, not two.) [sub]...and I may not have murdered the old school buddies I moved in during university with but I'll be damned if it wasn't tempting...[/sub]Idlemessiah said:
Nope, I live in a rented house with three other guys in York. When the university terms are over I drop back to my parents' for a few weeks but I generally can't stay down there more than a month at most before coming back up here. After Sixth Form finished and before University rolled round I was living in my parents' attic while we were waiting for my rent to be confirmed but that's about it. Being able to move out pretty quickly is something I've always been glad for.
I'm currently 24, and I live in my parents' place. I just got out from college 2 months ago, and have started saving for a house, which is a lot cheaper when rent isn't involved. However, I'll end up moving out next month due to a job offer that takes me 800 miles away from home. That would be one hell of a commute to make otherwise.
I don't. I live in a shitty apartment with my gf and her mom. I'm 20 years old and work in fast food while going to college for programming.
To be honest, it'd be pretty awesome to live in someone's basement right now if i didnt have to pay any rent. i could quit my part-time job and start going to school full-time. I don't know any gamers that do live in a basement but i think it'd be pretty cool. Not sure where that stereotype came from.
also might have been better to post a poll if possible.
To be honest, it'd be pretty awesome to live in someone's basement right now if i didnt have to pay any rent. i could quit my part-time job and start going to school full-time. I don't know any gamers that do live in a basement but i think it'd be pretty cool. Not sure where that stereotype came from.
also might have been better to post a poll if possible.
21 here and living in my parents .... attic. Which is actually a bedroom. Tried living on my own when I first got a job, turns out that was a bad idea in an area of the country where rent is stupidly high and wages are minimum. Trying to save up for uni at the moment, so in 5 years time I may be able to finally move out for good.
My wife and I are renting a room from her parents. The rate they charge is incomparably cheaper than all the apartments nearby, and given that I'm a student still and the best job outlook is minimum wage WalMart bullshit, we can't even think about renting an apartment yet.
So don't feel too bad, Red!
So don't feel too bad, Red!
i live at home with mu mother, have my own space (not a basement) and i moved back here after i finished uni (last year)
i plan on staying here for a while, because it means i can chuck money into the house to make sure my mothers bills are paid and what not (legally im only a lodger) maybe when she finished uni and i stop doing relief work find somewhere full time i will get my own place, until then im more then happy to stay home
i plan on staying here for a while, because it means i can chuck money into the house to make sure my mothers bills are paid and what not (legally im only a lodger) maybe when she finished uni and i stop doing relief work find somewhere full time i will get my own place, until then im more then happy to stay home
Does my mom's couch count?
Mind you I've already moved out a decade ago. [small](Stupid bankrupt employer and his stupid finances)[/small]
Mind you I've already moved out a decade ago. [small](Stupid bankrupt employer and his stupid finances)[/small]
I'm 20 going on 21, I'm stuck here with my folks. I want to do things my way, but I feel like no matter how much freedom my folks give me, I'll always be grounded by them. I also have to stay witness of my Grandfather slowly die of alzheimer's disease and my brother throw his life away for nothing.
Because of money and mediocre grades, I'm living at a home while going to a local state school.
It actually makes it really hard to meet new people and "stay involved on campus" when I'm only there four days a week for classes, then have to drive home for dinner or to pick my brother up. Meanwhile 99% of my fellow freshmen get room mates, meet their room mates friends, socialize in the cafe, and do whatever else they do.
Have you ever tried asking a girl, "Hey why don't you come over to my place, it's only a 30 minute drive from here?" I haven't either because I hate the drive so I normally miss all the parties, not to mention having to worry about driving home after the party.
On top of all that, I don't get along very well with most of my family.
Needless to say, I hate living at home.
It actually makes it really hard to meet new people and "stay involved on campus" when I'm only there four days a week for classes, then have to drive home for dinner or to pick my brother up. Meanwhile 99% of my fellow freshmen get room mates, meet their room mates friends, socialize in the cafe, and do whatever else they do.
Have you ever tried asking a girl, "Hey why don't you come over to my place, it's only a 30 minute drive from here?" I haven't either because I hate the drive so I normally miss all the parties, not to mention having to worry about driving home after the party.
On top of all that, I don't get along very well with most of my family.
Needless to say, I hate living at home.
I dont. I havent in well over a decade and pushing toward two. (save for a period of little under a year after being shot as I needed to get situated after separating from my ex and such things take time.) Besides, Ive since learned I am not fit for cohabitation, so for me living with others is not an option. Unless those others are of the feline persuasion that I can use as free heating in the winter to be miserly with the power bill.
But moved out on my own when I was 20 and technically minus that one transition year Ive stayed out since.
LOL Captchas are fun. Now I see why people do this. "Keep more money" Captcha wishes me to move back in. I DO miss having money.
But moved out on my own when I was 20 and technically minus that one transition year Ive stayed out since.
LOL Captchas are fun. Now I see why people do this. "Keep more money" Captcha wishes me to move back in. I DO miss having money.
I do I've admitted it before. I am pretty much the living incarnation of the stereotype. I am a fat, balding, glasses wearing uber-nerd in my late 30s who lives with my parents, my bedroom is in the basement (albiet a nice, wood paneled room).Redlin5 said:
I've been forced into retirement after a decade in Casino Security, suffer from brain damage, medicate myself heavily, and living on social security am actually concerned for the future about how I'll make everything work when my parents are gone since they will not live forever (though I'm sure I'll manage).
I'm a little less shy about my situation than most. It makes me angry a lot of the time more than anything.
In general the reason why this portrayal became insulting is because of how it applied to slackers, the implication being that the guy living off their parents, or at least accepting lodging, wasn't even trying. It typically goes along with unemployment and a bunch of other things. The idea being that "there is something inherantly wrong with anyone who could possibly be this interested in, or know this much about an esoteric subject like this".
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One other thing I'll say about the stereotype is that it's pure Generation X, and became so well known because there is a lot of truth to it, but not because the people doing it failed in some way. People will use anything they can to look down on others.
The bottom line is that Generation X is/was "the lost generation", the generation being skipped socially and economically due to extending lifespans and social changes. The idea being that due to modern medicine Baby Boomers are living longer, and staying more active than generations before them. Typically as a new generation is coming of age, the previous generation is stepping down and their children's generation moves into the same jobs and places int he social structure in order to replace them as they retire. In this case it didn't happen, and sociologists were pointing out for a long time it was going to turn out this way. The Baby Boomers are instead starting to slow down and retire just in time or Generation Y to move up socially.
This is a lot of what people, especially Generation Y, miss about the 1990s, the whole Emo/Goth scene, the angst, "extreme" attitudes and the like. The 1990s were a time of extreme escapism from a reality you knew was never going to be yours, and venting a lot of anger and depression. Today's youth have nothing to be depressed about, where with Generation X you literally went from self validation programs in school, to taking civics and sociology where you learned exactly why you were never going to amount to anything. Queue the angst, and the whole "slacker" attitude where people didn't want to do try and act up to their potential, because they knew they weren't going to go anywhere, so why break your arse?
With few if any meaningful jobs, you saw kids increasingly staying at home, it isn't like someone could just boot a Gen Xer out the door like with previous generations and expect them to find their way, after all there were no decent jobs as the parental generation was still holding them all, and most people were smart enough to realize it, as well as the fact that they would be holding them until Gen-X started to hit their late 30s through their 50s, at which point they would be too old to start the way they were supposed to and Gen Y would roll right on in.
This is incidently why "oldies" stations playing music from the 1960s and 1970s remained (and still remain) such a big deal, since the Baby Boomers had all the money, and music is used to promote products, where "everyone" meaning Boomers and Gen Y, agree the 1990s suck and it's hard to find much stuff from that period being given much credit, that being the big "teen/young adult" period for Gen X.
At any rate, the bottom line is that despite where I am now, where I've been, etc... the point is that while seemingly a horrible insult, the whole "Basement Dweller" thing came about for a reason. It's used to slam not just game nerds, but stoners, slackers, and pretty much the majority of an entire generation (though exceptions do exist). Without the reasonable expectation that a Gen Xer could get a good job (given the guy with it is still holding it, and nowhere near retirement) and have their own house/apartment/condo/whatever, huge numbers stayed home... duh, and quite a few are sensitive about it.
Personally I think it's going to be fairly interesting what's going to happen with Generation Y because while coming up with oppertunities they are going to have to deal with both the burden of supporting the Baby Boomers, and Generation X which was unable to contribute much of anything, just wait until they wind up having to deal with one, but not two generations hitting the social infrastructure en-masse one after another. That's one of the big reasons the goverment has been concerned about a social security/medicare/retirement crisis... a concern going back decades now since everyone saw exactly this coming.