Spreading your wings... or not.

[Colour Scientist]

I turned nineteen a couple of months ago and am about to start my third year in university. I lived away from home for the academic year and came back for the summer. I think this year will be my last. I feel too old to be living under my parent's roof at this stage and I have a job so I'm essentially a lodger.
However, I have a good few friends who are choosing to live at home throughout college and probably for a good few years after that. I guess they enjoy the comforts of home but I can't understand it.
Obviously money is a huge issue but if it weren't when do you think you would choose to move away from your parental home?

 

[Marter]

If money was no issue, I'd move away right now. Since it is, I'll probably be stuck all the way through college.

 

[Blackmagic1515]

Money is an issue but even if it wasn't I wouldn't move out without sharing a place with someone. I can't stick the thought of living by myself.

 

[Muramasa89]

I'm essentially on my own now except the water, gas, electricity and any other bills pay themselves.

I live in a pretty convinient place. I don't have to walk more 20 minutes for college, hospital, shops, train station, school, bus stop. The area is crap but I'm fine here and regardless if I have the money I won't be moving out. I feel I'm owed it because of my elder brother.

 

[Jackalb]

If I had the money I would have been up and out when I was 16.

 

[khaimera]

I left the day after I was old enough to legally do so. My dad was an ass.

Today though, it is much more acceptable to live with family for a longer time. Make your choice and dont care about where society says you should live.

 

[2fish]

Money is evil it has tied my hands. I am stuck at home until grad school, one more summer, one more summer.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

I've lived on my own for two years now, there is no fucking way that I'm going to live with my parents again. Living on my own is just awesome and I don't need my parents breathing down my neck every day.

 

[Colour Scientist]

...I had to drop out of college due to financial troubles and I can't get a job anywhere in town, and I lack the ability to drive, so I'm stuck living with my mother. People who can afford college, even with federal funds (the government didn't give me enough money, I would have had to take a persona loan) should be happy.

I'm probably going to have to take out a load for this year and if not the year after. I'm going to be in debt for quite sometime even though I've been working throughout college.

 

[lacktheknack]

I can't help it, but when I read the title, I thought of a horrendous mispronunciation in BEP's "Imma Be".

Anyway, I'll be moving out right after I'm done university, in four or five years.

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

I can't wait to move out!
too bad I'm 14...
But if money was tight I'd stay.

 

[Soxafloppin]

By living at home im saving like £100 a week, and thats just on rent. I would only move out if i was in a serious relationship.

 

[Colour Scientist]

By living at home im saving like £100 a week, and thats just on rent. I would only move out if i was in a serious relationship.

Really? I'd hate to live with a significant other, at least not for a good few years. A few of my friends have tried it and it rarely ends well.

 

[Penguinness]

I'm also coming up to my third year at uni. After uni I'll be looking for a job which could be anywhere really, and I'd probably take it anywhere (in the UK, anyway) if I could get it, so it's not really a choice for me (as such). Getting into the games industry is going to be such a pain..

 

[Da Joz]

Well I guess it would have been when I was eighteen and spent most of the year at college. My brother recently moved back home to save some money while he goes back to school to get an MBA, so it can really be just a matter of convenience.

 

[Soxafloppin]

By living at home im saving like £100 a week, and thats just on rent. I would only move out if i was in a serious relationship.

Really? I'd hate to live with a significant other, at least not for a good few years. A few of my friends have tried it and it rarely ends well.

Don't get me wrong, im 18 so i wouldn't move out for another few years myself.

and i agree there are problems, like if you hear your hot girlfriend fart or something, EWWW!

 

[Colour Scientist]

By living at home im saving like £100 a week, and thats just on rent. I would only move out if i was in a serious relationship.

Really? I'd hate to live with a significant other, at least not for a good few years. A few of my friends have tried it and it rarely ends well.

Don't get me wrong, im 18 so i wouldn't move out for another few years myself.

and i agree there are problems, like if you hear your hot girlfriend fart or something, EWWW!

That would probably become an issue, contrary to popular belief some girls have been known to fart occasionally... but you didn't hear that from me.

 

[Trivun]

Heh, I'm in the exact same situation as you. About to start my third university year, and I'll be 20 in a month and a half. I'm at home with my parents now for summer, but I'm going back to my university town next week to find a part-time job, and if I can get one then I'll stay up there for the rest of summer. To be honest, I hate my hometown (my family and a few friends are all that tie me to this place now), the West Midlands (UK) is such a shithole. Leeds, my university city, is such a great place, I love it there. As soon as I get a proper job, I'm staying up there, if I can, or else if I can afford it I'll try and move down to London. But I want to get out of my hometown permanantly as soon as possible, right now if I could afford it...

 

[Xyliss]

I'm in exactly the same situation with one difference...I ain't moving into another house next year and staying at my parents for my final year...I am dreading it. I have been back a month already and hate it. Not that I don't love my parents but dear gods I can't live with them anymore. I've gotten used to being independant and living on my own, now it feels like im 15 again. And of course, the only reason I'm here is money, I can't afford anywhere else or I would

 

[Nietz]

I moved out the same day I legally could(18). The first couple of years were hell, struggling with school, job, social life, money and all that jazz. Well, it still isn't all that easy, but I would never trade back. The old homestead was none to stable, and I do appreciate the solitude of only me and my kitten.
But now things are starting to get even more complicated, the fiancée wants us to move in together. Sure, I love her, and I love the idea of us living together. But I doubt that I could handle it. Plus the whole merging of the crap we have accumulated is hard, and money is going to become an even bigger issue. Because now I pretty much only cater to me and my kitten, and the occasional gifts/dinners/etc for the lady. But when we move in together, there is going to be two new mouths to feed on a daily basis.