When did you move out?

[TehCookie]

Being gamers we often have the stigma of living in our parents basements and playing games, however at some point in our life we have to move out and find our own home we can set up our lair in. How old were you when you moved out or when do you plan to move out?

I'm 18 and am planning to stay at home to go to college and as soon as I get my degree or a decent job I want to move out. My brother moved out at 18 and had been job hopping, but is currently unemployed and begging to come back. So I was also wondering if anyone successfully moved out after high school.

 

[Marter]

I plan to leave as soon as I can, but due to financial reasons, I probably won't be able to until after college.

 

[Dags90]

I don't want to move out until after I have a stable job. Currently in school, so I've got a few more years of milking free rent.

 

[JanatUrlich]

Still at home right now but I'll be moving in September for uni. I'm excited 8D

 

[daftalchemist]

I moved out of my parents house when I was 21. My boyfriend had moved to Arizona to live with his childhood friend (who had moved to AZ when his dad got a job transfer) because his home life with his own family was much less than desirable. A year later I moved to Arizona to move in with him, and have been here for about two years now.

We're originally from New Jersey, so when we moved out we really MOVED. XD

 

[riotwraith]

I'm currently in college and don't want to move out until I've got a good job lined up. There's a lot of that going around in this thread. Yeah, sometimes people will crack jokes or give me weird looks when I say that, but I can't help but notice that every one of them moved out because they had to because they have a shitty relationship with their parents. I love my parents and we get along just fine.

By moving out I would be giving up free food, free rent/utilities, a television that's almost as big as me, and getting to see my family all the time in exchange for... what? Being less awkward bringing girls over? People not looking at me funny when I say I live at home? Fuck that.

 

[salvagebar]

I was eighteen, moved right from high school to college, graduated, went back home for the weeks it took me to find a job, and then left.

I know a lot of people do the "I took a year to backpack around Europe and find myself." thing, and 80% of the time it is just masturbation and delaying real life, but 20% of the time it ISN'T. For some people, it is absolutely right. Looking back, taking a year or two away from academics to live a very different life - say, to travel or join the Army - would have been a good idea.

Seriously consider the travel option, if you have the means. If you are afraid that you haven't had a large enough circle of people, that you haven't been social enough in your life (which is a pretty common gamer complaint), that kind of challenge might be just the ticket.

The crap economy notwithstanding, it is almost always a good idea to move fast, decisively leave home, and find your own financial support. Everyone has to do this, at some point, so do it with enthusiasm.

I wish you the best. Good luck.

 

[ThePinkAcidSmurf]

The day after tomorrow.

 

[Keava]

I was about seventeen when i packed my bags, grabbed my spare change, hitchhiked my way to different city and lived for 2 years on a punk community squat, grabbing every little job i could while externally finishing school and starting some freelance writing for 'underground' zines.

After that i managed to get into uni, rent myself a little apartment along with one friend to split the costs and pretty much, undisturbed, carried on with my life. Probably most fun 5 years of my life, till i got my very own place to live.

 

[daftalchemist]

I was eighteen, moved right from high school to college, graduated, went back home for the weeks it took me to find a job, and then left.

I know a lot of people do the "I took a year to backpack around Europe and find myself." thing, and 80% of the time it is just masturbation and delaying real life, but 20% of the time it ISN'T. For some people, it is absolutely right. Looking back, taking a year or two away from academics to live a very different life - say, to travel or join the Army - would have been a good idea.

Seriously consider the travel option, if you have the means. If you are afraid that you haven't had a large enough circle of people, that you haven't been social enough in your life (which is a pretty common gamer complaint), that kind of challenge might be just the ticket.

The crap economy notwithstanding, it is almost always a good idea to move fast, decisively leave home, and find your own financial support. Everyone has to do this, at some point, so do it with enthusiasm.

I wish you the best. Good luck.

It's true. Sometimes taking a year off is what you need. I didn't take a year off to "find myself", per say, but I took a year off to recuperate my sanity, literally. I had beaten depression for college, but the stress of a new environment caused it to start coming back and I took a year off to stabilize myself. It was really all I needed to put my life into perspective.

 

[Bashful Reaper]

I moved out for the last year of University (aged around 21). Have shared with all manner of people over the last few years, and finally have a little place which I'm renting on my own (now 26). That's damn lucky for someone living in London, but everyones life plays out differently...

 

[Swarley]

Moving next summer when I transfer to a better uni, so I'll be 20.

 

[darkman80723]

I got booted out at age 17, my lover and I moved and both attended college. we now live in the same apartment working off our debt. my folks couldnt pay me enough to move back with them.

 

[newfiegirl 110]

Here on the Rock, children often stay with their parents til they marry. I moved out with my fiance in 2000 at the age of 26. Married two years later.

 

[Fbuh]

I'm in the middle of it right now.

 

[unoleian]

Boomeranging happens. Just don't let it become a long term thing...

Moved out just months after graduating high school, was back for one month of holiday and the summer my freshman year of college, moved out for good the following year. A little less than year after graduating college, I had some setbacks, and moved back in with them for just over a year and a half, and am now kickin' it in high-style on my own again.

So, I guess that would make it 19 the first time, and 26, the second time.

 

[Colour Scientist]

I'm in college so I've been out of the house 80% of the time for the past two years, this is my last summer at home though so I guess in a month and a half, I'm 19.

 

[Blueruler182]

I'm living in the most fantastic location. I live between the best sandwich shop in ze world, a comic store, a used book store, a thrift store, above a Starbucks, and by multiple nice and never busy restaurants. I'm staying here until my mom and her boyfriend move and then renting it myself.

EDIT: Also, I'm 18, finishing up school with online courses in February.