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?

I was 20 and went to college, but I was also relieved to be gone. I felt like I couldn't grow up living with my parents and there also were lots of arguments in their house that made us all miserable.

21 to move to the city where my boyfriend (now dh) lived. My brother was 18 when he moved a couple of hundred miles away to do a year of work experience scheme before uni and he's lived a distance away from our parents eer since.

I sort of hope my dc move out at similar ages. I think I'd feel sad if they missed out on the freedom of not living with their parents as young adults. Asmuch as I would miss them!

18, when I went to uni. I came back for two years when I finished my degree, then left again to go back to uni and move in with DP.

My Mum divorced my stepdad while I was at uni the first time so when I came back, it was just me, my sister and our Mum and we had the best two years without an angry, selfish man ruining the mood in the house! I am very lucky to be so close with them though and know that isn’t the case for everyone. I’d live with the pair of them tomorrow if for some reason we all found ourselves needing to leave where we all live now!

18, when I left for university. Didn't have any problems living at home, would quite happily live there again! But university was too far away, and then I moved abroad at 20.

18. Bought a flat with my older sister. She couldn't really afford on her own and I was easy going.

No issues with parents but we were from a big family so had to share bedrooms, this gave everyone a bit more space to breathe.

I was 27. I moved out because I'd saved enough to buy my own place. Also to be on the same side of London as my then boyfriend, now DH. I loved living at home though.

18, to go to university. I spent a few months here and there over the years between moves/tenancies, and a month every summer when we visit (we moved abroad 15 years ago) but nothing too long.

17. Took a job as a commis chef in a hotel. Mainly to get away from an overbearing mother.

16 after being abused for 16 years. Ended up sofa surfing for a while and then managed to rent a room in a house share.

18 when I went to Uni, went home for Xmas and the odd weekend, but the rest of the time stayed in the city I was studying... stayed 7yrs after Uni too!
I feel so sorry for young people now that seem completely unequipped to deal with the step at this age to be independent

Just turned 24, bought a house with my then partner. Left school at 18 got a job, can’t believe I lived at home for 6 years, it’s a blur to be honest.

I was 21. After going travelling and being away from home I didn’t fancy living with my parents full time again. I had a full time job so could afford to rent.

Well, a lot of us come from places where there are no graduate jobs so going home after university is simply not an option. I didn’t even go home during vac as it was far easier to get vac work (and have a good time…) in my university town than in my old home town. My parents had also re-purposed my old bedroom so it wasn’t really home any more.

16. Very abusive household. Moved in with my bf in his 20s, I'm sure you can imagine how that panned out too. Happily in a relationship with an amazing guy now in our own house

Left at 18 for uni, dropped out After 2 years. Went back for a years then moved out at 21 when I got married.

Had just turned 21 and was living in an extremely toxic environment so saved hard to buy my own place and make sure I never needed to go back. The day I packed my belongings in my car to move into my own home was one of my happiest. To be away from my family was heaven

23 when I moved from my Mum's to London to pursue my second degree (in nursing), during which I met my husband, who was also studying at the time and living with his family. I moved in with them a for few (unbearable) months, we then moved out after a big fall out with them, rented a couple of places before then buying our own place back in the village my Mum lives. We're very close to her and live a 10 minute walk away.

18 - moved in with friends. Went to uni 3 years later. Moved back in with my parents for a couple of years after that.

15 months.

She was useless.

Mine can live with me as long as they like. Currently two at uni and one renting.

16 as Mum and I had a massive fight because she expected me to leave school & get a job whereas I wanted to stay and get my qualifications. Plus she was moving in with her boyfriend who lived miles from my school & town centre. I moved in with a relative & her housemates, all in their 20's, and got a part time job for 2 years whilst I finished secondary school.

When I was 18 I moved back to mum's (thankfully no longer with boyfriend) as relative got married. Stayed for a few months then got a room in a houseshare as soon as I'd saved up the deposit.

Never lived with her again after that. All of my other 4 siblings left home by 16 and only one went back because she had baby at 17. Even that didn't last very long.

I feel so sorry for so many young people now, stuck living in a difficult or worse home environments and due to CoL not being able to afford to move out.

18 to go to university, which failed and I had to come back that same year.

They were planning what to do with my room in the weeks leading up to me going. They didn't mean anything by it, we had so little space and my younger brother deserved a turn at a slightly bigger room.
I ended up back there but in the smaller spare room and got a job while I applied to go to a closer uni to start the following year. I was properly gone after the first year of the second attempt at uni. So properly at 19.
I'm going to let my kids stay as long as they want if it helps them, in their own room, which will stay their room. They may not even want to and that's quite okay.

Divorce, both parents were abusive - dad violently and mum emotionally. Mum left and took me to DSis’s flat and then I moved in with a boyfriend, not surprisingly he was abusive.

I was 22 and had a 3 year old so it was time to go.

17, I was in a relationship my parents didn’t approve of so I left home to move in with them. My relationship with parents never recovered really.

I was 17. Didn’t get a choice!