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?

Just turned 22, pregnant with first baby and just bought our first house.

In and out from 19 when I went to university, then permanently at 23 when I got my first 'grown up' job - moved in with my now husband a year later.

25- bought my first house with my then boyfriend, now husband. Didn't leave home for uni

I was 17. I wasn't getting on with my mum so I moved into my boyfriend's and later my grandparents' (after he and I broke up - shocker. Seventeen year olds are not built for cohabitation 😅) before I went to uni. Never went back.

I was 17. My father was abusive and I now realise that my mum enabled him and was abusive too, just in a different way.

It was hard to manage alone at 17 but I went to uni at 18 and my life began.

Our oldest is 21 and at uni, but is with is in the holidays and some weekends. He plans on living at home with us full time after uni for a few years at least. I can't imagine my children moving out so young and I'm very glad we have a happy home where they're welcome for as long as they like.

18 to university. Never went back other than for brief visits.

15 to go and live in a big city hundreds of miles away on the streets, and then I got into a hostel at 16.

Still felt safer sleeping rough than I did at 'home'.

It really hit hard when my kids hit 15, I look at them and just see myself and what I could have been without all the abuse.

Same

16. I was made to leave and they left to live abroad. I was terrified and alone. Up until that point my life with them had been hell, lots of violence and rage until I became a shadow person. I survived somehow.

I was 21. I rented a small one bed flat with my now husband. We met when I was 19. We brought the flat from the landlord two years later.

Moved out because I’d just started my teaching career and got my first teaching job and my parents were selling up to relocate back to the Midlands.

I was 16, I was abused terribly by my mother and brother, ended up in a&e.

18. Bought my first house, no real reasons to leave other than I was ready

I was 19. Moved 250 miles away to go to uni. My mum got rid of the bed in my room within weeks of me leaving and turned it into my brother's 'lounge'.

21

I got married.

Nearly 19. Relocated for uni.

20, when I bought my first house with my ex husband. Moved out because I couldn't take living with my mum anymore. 15yrs spent with an arsehole, just to get away from my mum 🤦🏻‍♀️

17. I simply couldn't stand it anymore

Permanently (i.e. not counting university) I was 22. My then-boyfriend and I rented a house together as soon as we both had perm jobs because naturally we wanted independence, a house to ourselves etc. We had very little money and very little furniture which was a mix of what the landlord had left and 1970s cast-offs from our parents, including a tiny black and white telly which at least required a cheaper licence than a colour one. We lived mainly off jacket potatoes and tinned tomatoes, however I remember it as a happy time. After a couple of years we bought a house which worked out cheaper than renting

I first moved out at 19 to live in a flat with friends then moved back after a falling out, at 21 left for a year to travel then back then moved out at 23 to live with boyfriend (now DH) and didn't go back after that!

My DD started uni a year ago at 19 and I don't think she will move back permanently as she loves her new life in her uni town and has made a lot of local friends (plus it is a cheap place to live while she gets work experience for her doctorate). DS is 17 and I reckon he will move out when he can afford it - not because we don't get on or have a nice family life I just think he wants to live in a city with friends. It's funny my kids and I have always been really close but they have become such confident adults and I'm happy for them to spread their wings - I really thought they would both be here till their late 20s!

18 to uni. Then from uni at 22 moved to another city for my first job.

19 moved into my then boyfriends family home I ended up cooking and cleaning for the whole family and taking his younger siblings to school.

1 year later I moved out into a room in a shared house on my own.

23 - I worked shifts and staying at home just wasn't working.

Two weeks after my 18th for uni - had a difficult time at home and never came back in the holidays. Was also told I was difficult and mum said my room smelled of alcohol, screaming. I was a quiet shy girl and didn’t cause trouble. Haven’t seen them in months which is sad

I went away to university 18-23 but was always back in the holidays. Moved out properly at 23 the September after finishing my masters to move in with now-DH.

Other extreme…uni then a PhD staying in a flat my parents owned meant I moved out properly for the first time at 24. I’m astonished how often people on Mumsnet think this means I can’t possibly be a functioning adult. I’m so sorry though for those who moved out too young for all the wrong reasons.

Oh and why…to move in with now DH.