What was your life like when you were 24?

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The title says it all. Were you living with your parents still? What was your job like? What did your social life consist of?

I'd just dropped out of an MA and gone to live on a commune in the US. It was a wonderfully irresponsible, mildly-druggy time.

Weekends I wasn't visiting or having DH visit I felt like this - partly why I started with OU. People in my workplace were either older with families or commuting quite a distance.

Felt hard to meet anyone my own age and that I was losing touch with Uni friends and few I grew up with - in completely different part of country to them. DH fared much better lots of people his won age up for doing thing though he was aways happy to explore and do things by himself.

I was also saving - paying of uni debts and starting saving for house deposit so while was earing well didn't have huge amount to spend on fun things. Think looking back lots of FOMO. However if hadn't saved as hard would have been even later getting on housing ladder and less options.

My IL have been pretty much everywhere but that started for them in their 40 mostly - having done Spain and Greece annually before that. They were child and mortgage free at that point. I thought we'd be the same but we had kids later and will be later paying of mortgage - so have at times wondered if we should have been less sensible and traveled a bit more when young.

I had recently got my first professional job after moving back to England. I was living in London and only knew one person. So work was my social life (I was in publishing doing creative work). Luckily it was similar for most of the others I worked with. All in their 20s, some recently moved to London from uni, no one coupled up. It was great (in hindsight). Thatcher years and we all were trying to buy our first homes which we mostly did, many with friends. It was boom time economically despite very high interest rates. I bought my first home, bought my first car. Only had to think of myself. We worked hard but actually had a lunch hour which we all went down the pub for. Yea life was good.

I was married with a baby who was born one month before my 24th birthday. Living in a small 3 bed house in the Cambridge/Suffolk borders over 100 miles away from my family. I had no friends so life was quite insular. Money was tight as I was a SAHM and our mortgage rate was creeping up.

Luckily, life got much better within a year and improved year on year.

I had just moved into to a council flat in an amazing location in London, 7 mins walk from a zone 1 tube and was about to start an MSc at Imperial. I was single and focused on my new flat, my course and my family.

Op, European countries aren't really similar to the U.K.

I got pregnant when i was 23 so 24 consisted of being pregnant for 6 months and then having a baby. Worked in the career i am still in now at a lower level which was going well. Lived with my partner at the time (married at 26 and divorced at 28)

I started work as a teacher. On the same day I met my future husband, standing on the bridge over the river, waiting for the bus. It was a sunny August which progressed into one of those brilliant blue Novembers. We started chatting and the rest is history.

OP has your DS ever lived away from home?

Married, living in our own home with a 1 year old and working full time.

Well, there's his issue, surely. He's regretting not having a girlfriend and not travelling more, yet he's too 'comfortable' to leave the nest.

In my final year at uni, had a bereavement and not in a great place mentally. But had good friends and a hot boyfriend so not all bad!

Yes. Year 1 and Year 4 of uni.

Was working in a top London hospital, living in house share ( hospital owned house) in central London.
Working very very hard but also had a great social life. I started dating DH when I was 24.
I had a very bad year with my dad dying at 23 so was trying to get some balance back to my life. Up until I started dating DH I had been working 7 days (13 hour shifts) in a row and using a few days off to go back home to support my mother. So was properly exhausted really. 24 was better than 23 for me!

I had been married for 6 years, had 3 children under 5, in that time i had lived in 3 different countries, Husband had gone to war and my mum died suddenly.

At 24, I'd been married 3 years, had a 2 year old and was pregnant with the 2nd child. I'm mid-60s now, still married to the same man, children obviously have children of their own, and we see them all at least once a week.

Had left home, and home city. Single. Buying own house. Teaching.
Lively social life. Great carefree times. Early 1980s.

At 24 my life was on the verge of turning for the better. 25 was when things really took off for me.
At 24 I had bought a house and I was fiancially stable but my personal life was a bit of a mess.
At 25 I met my amazing boyfriend who became DH. 34 years later things are still great between us!

I was in a graduate job, about to start a PhD. Living in a house share in a big city, long term boyfriend lived abroad so lots of travel to see him. Socialised lots, good holidays, felt like all life and potential ahead. Happy days I'm quite nostalgic about 24 years later. Can't believe that was half my lifetime ago!

I had lived with DH for six years, been married for two, sold our flat to buy a house, and was pregnant with our eldest. The pregnancy was traumatic, but generally, life was pretty good. I felt optimistic.

I had just bought a flat on a 100% mortgage. My then boyfriend moved in with me although I didn't really want him to. (Story of my life).

My daughter was 6, I'd finished uni and wualified in my role, and we were just in the process of moving to a new home about 40 min away from where I grew up so that she could have better opportunities at school etc as we were in an area with high rates of gun crime, drugs, gangs etc

It was amazing and I really didn't appreciate at the time! Young, free and single, with so much energy for everything - working hard but also out with friends pretty much every night going to gigs, exhibitions or just playing board games in our local or eating pizza. That was probably around the time Macauley Culkin turned up to play a gig in our local pizza place and Courtney Love was spotted in our fried chicken shop. Mad times!

It was a time before Instagram and we had some awesome house parties where no-one worried about pictures of them drunk or looking a mess

I got married at 23 two weeks off 24. My Dad died less than a year later. DH and I were already in a flat, joint owned, and moved house in that 24th year too.

So got married, moved house, lost my Dad all in that 24th year

Social life was friends from college, and work colleagues, and neighbours. Work was admin/junior management in services companies.

We had two cats and spent a lot of time in Italy.

Was single with a good job, living abroad.