How old were you when you left home?

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Not to go to university, I mean, when you no longer had a bedroom or regularly stayed with your parents?

I was 18.

21 (well day before my 22 birthday but sounds more impressive) when I bought my first flat. Prices were cheaper then

21. Started a masters and never went back home again. Haven’t stayed there overnight since that day (1993).

21, though I stayed longer than I would've as my dad was ill and I stuck around to help my mum with him.

22

16, I went to a live in job but didnt like it and left. Parents wouldn't have me back, (I'd been off the rails since 14) so I lived on an older friends sofa, and got into college, I used her address as my Care of address. then moved into a flat with friend. At 17 moved home but then lived with my boyfriend most of the time. bought my own house at 19.

I was 18. I would have wanted to stay at home for a few more years but my parents house at the time was really small and I had no privacy

Moved out to live in sin with bf week after finished a levels. Went from there to university and worked during the hols in university city.

Might have been a lot different if dm wasn’t as controlling.

19 and moved to another country.

In my last year of uni I was visiting at Christmas and my mum said, "while you're here, could you clean out your room? We're going to redecorate it as a guest room." That was that

18

I was in care, so 18 for university, able to stay in the home for uni hols or I'd have been homeless then properly at 21.

18

Left school and home at 16. I don't think it's possible to be that anymore, is it??

17 - moved in with DH and his parents while we saved and 12 months later we bought our house

22. I went to uni at 18 but came home during the holidays to work. After I finished (four year course), I moved home again until the December; I paid nominal rent - I think it was £25 a week - and worked at an estate agents to clear my overdraft and figure out what I wanted to do next. Ended up moving in with a friend from uni who had a spare room back in my uni town!

@PandyCuff afaik you can still leave school at 16 in Scotland

Scotland. If you turn 16 between 1 March and 30 September you can leave school after 31 May of that year. If you turn 16 between 1 October and the end of February you can leave at the start of the Christmas holidays in that school year.

So actually, you can leave at 15.

17. Did A-levels early, got a place on a gap year work scheme and found a bedsit for a couple months then moved in with other students.

I did move back 5 years later for 3 months, finishing a dissertation, which involved moving a lot of furniture so I could reach my bed - parents finally had enough money to do up the house. They downsized soon after.

16. Pregnant and despite having loving supportive parents, thought I could do better on my own. It turned out ok actually but looking back it must have been very painful for them and I should've stayed and let them help.

17 - had an argument and walked.
H left home at 14 near 15 to find work. This would have been early to mid 90s btw. Our children will not be having the life we had - they already have better which is not too difficult.

22, but my parents only sold the family home last May so technically I stopped having a bedroom at my parents house at 27, although I had only stayed there once in the 5 years since moving out. They now only have a spare room.

26. Wasn't able to move out earlier due to mental illness coupled with min wage jobs

16. Easy in those days in London. Lots of jobs. Lots of places to rent. Was saying to someone the other day that it was very unusual then for anyone to live with parents once they'd finished college. So different now, I feel sorry for young people, its so difficult to start their independent adult lives.