How old were you when you moved out of your parents’ house and why did you?

[Junaluma]

I was 25. I lived at home during university but I met my then DP while I was at university. I guess I moved out as I wanted to start a life with my now DH! Still see my parents on once a month or so.

What about everyone else?

18 for university, 21 properly when I got a job in a city approx 100 miles away. Never went back.
These are the ages when young people should be starting to live their own lives.

Returned for a while after finishing uni then moved out at 24 when purchasing a house

16 ’couch-surfed’ until 18 then got into a flat share. Went to university but didn’t go back for holidays and no financial support from family. So am calling that moving out.

21 - moved in with my boyfriend as my home life was horrible, in hindsight should have moved out well before then

23 I think. I went to uni at 18 and moved in with my boyfriend after, but broke up within a few months and moved back home for a year or so. Useful experience though, it showed me what I didn't want in a relationship!

Depends on age we’re now…

I moved out at 19 (weren’t at uni) had no choice. I have no regrets and I know it’s really young nowadays, especially if you didn’t go to uni then.

Most people I know are still living at home (late 20’s/30’s).

19, when I moved away for uni.

Lived away for a long time before moving back to my hometown a couple of years ago.

Dh and I bought a house and actually moved back in with my parents for a short stint whilst we had work some done to our house.

19. Bought a doer-upper with then boyfriend and put every penny we had into it. I felt far too young but looking back it's the main thing I'm grateful for him pushing on me to do.

23 when I bought a flat on my own. Parents were great and very close to them now fortunately

How? I never stayed at home again, I’ve probably slept in my mums home about 5 nights since leaving for uni at 18.

16. Fell pregnant, if I stayed home my mum said I'd have to grow up with my son being my brother. So I moved in with my boyfriend at the time.

17 - I was sick of being used as my parent's punchbag - emotional in the case of 'D'M and physical in the case of 'D'F.
Started off literally sleeping on a friend's bedroom floor.
Although the first time I actually tried to leave home was when I was 4!

Moved out at 25 when I bought a house, only possible as was given some money. Parents would have been happy if I had stayed with them.

17. My brother was 15. Not a happy home.

I was 22 and knew I had to get on the housing ladder.
Was very happy at home but knew that I needed to make that big step to start buying my own home.

House prices meant I had to buy some distance away from my family, friends & work so I would often stay at my parents during the week and just pop to my own house for a single night to show a presence and pick up the post.
It was a really good thing to do, was in my second house by the time I got married and the mortgage was paid off by my mid-40's. Financial security meant savings & pensions could be prioritised resulting us buying our final house mortgage free and taking early retirement.

Being independent I was able to move from my FTB house to chase promotion at work and settle in a new part of the country.
30yrs on we moved back to my original area and it is like I was never away (well, nearly). Luckily my OH is happy here.

18. I knew it all, didn't like rules and didn't need anyone. I was back a year later 🤣

Well my Mum and I lived together until I was 34, through two marriages and having my dd (now an adult). She was an alcoholic and had schizophrenia and we had a very complex relationship. We purchased a house together when I got to 25ish after selling our old family home which we were living in with my Gran who had died. I then met now dh and I realised how awful things were really living with my Mum and how controlled I was. We then purchased Mums half of the house and she moved into a smaller house nearby. She died a few years back now. I’m in my mid 40s now and it’s only now that I really feel free as an adult.

Our house got repossessed & my mum was moving to a mobile home with no space or invite for me, I was 20. I got a flat share but the guy turned out to be a perv so I got a mobile home too with a very strict plan to save, save & save more to get a flat asap. I did that & have been fine ever since.

Watching our house get repossessed has turned me into a massive saver.

Some of you have sad stories.

I was 25. Bought a house with my boyfriend.

18, moved to America for a couple of years. Came back. Went to Uni. Lived in house shares all over the UK. Met DH in my thirties. Married, had DC. We lived abroad. Settled back in UK when DC was 7 and said they wanted to stay put in one place til they were 18. Now DC at Uni DH and I doing 50/49 % UK/abroad. As soon as DC finishes Uni (5 or 6 year course), DH and I plan to travel and live abroad again. See my DP’s often and holiday together. DH’s parents dead. No family financial help in life or death.

I’m taken back by some of the responses, I’m so sorry so many of you had to go through living with parents who should make you feel happy and secure. I hope you have happier lives now.

Worked full time from when I left school at 16 and saved up to buy a little two up two down house with my boyfriend at the time (who I'm now married to!)

I was 25. I wasn’t home much from 21 onwards as I was cabin crew and was in hotels all over the world. I wasn’t around much and moved out once I had a deposit for my first house. Dm still cried when I moved out, but I was leaving the house at 3am some mornings, my parents were retired and it wasn’t fair.
Tbh, it was a shrewd move as I made loads on that house. It was a really good investment.

I haven't really counted going to uni as my home was still with my parents in the holidays.
I left for good at 21 after graduating, moving to Germany.

14 my parents didn't even try to stop me moving in with my 19 year old boyfriend at the time