To ask what age you moved out

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I moved out at 18 in to a house share. I’ve never been back home since. My adult ds’s still live with though I’ve started talking to them about their plans to move out. I know it’s a lot more difficult these days.

18 rented a flat with a mate

18

18 and I left skid marks. My parents were awful. I got married to get away from them. Unsurprisingly the marriage didn't work out but I never lived at home again.

18. Have never moved back, although I lived (with only £200pm rent paid and all my washing done!) at my best friend's family home for about 12 months in my early twenties. My sister has, with about 2 years exception where she moved in with her boyfriend, not yet left properly - she's 30 next year. Her and my mum are perfectly happy - I couldn't have stayed another month haha.

16 and I was way too young. Oh I thought I was “grown up” but I wasn’t. However there were numerous reasons I couldn’t stay at home any longer. I vowed my DC would have a home with me as long as they wanted/needed. That will never change.

17 - escaping from abusive home. Though that wasn't overtly acknowledged by either my parents or myself for decades!

House share like many pps which I also hated but was still better than home.

Dd left home aged 19.5 mainly to be nearer to where she was working at the time but also I think she wanted her independence plus the lad she was seeing at the time was very shy and didn't like staying over with me here! And dd wasn't welcome to stay at his as he has much younger siblings - which I kinda get.

She's just moved to a much further away town as she's due to start uni soon and even though we still talk as much as ever we're both feeling the distance. But it's part of growing up I think.

And she's not with the shy lad now.

Thrown out at 13 by stepdad after birth mother killed herself.

Streets for a while, taken in by best friends mum until I was 16.

Lived independently since then (I have grown kids now!)

At 18 I went to work and live at a holiday camp. Amazing experience

19, to live with then boyfriend, and never went back.

My boss left home to live with her boyfriend at 15!

21 the first time, I moved back after 6 months when my relationship collapsed. I then moved out again at 23. We stayed at my parents for 1 night between leaving our rental and moving into our first house. We're now 29 and I have friends that are still living with their parents as they can't do it alone and don't want to be in shared homes.

DB went to uni at 18 and hasn't been back since.

22. I went to stay at my boyfriend's house for the night and never went home.

We've been together almost 10 years now, and we've got a house together.

But, it means I've never rented. Never lived alone. Never lived with friends or housemates. I do feel like I've missed out a bit.

16 and 8 months approx. Lived in someone's attic. Never went back.

I was 18 and rented a bedsit, left school at 16 and worked full time, DH was 16 and I think his parents had to sign for his bedsit as he was under 18, he paid the rent and bills though, this was the mid 70s so different times, they seem to be at school forever now.

21 when I went to do my nurse training.

18 to go to uni and never went back. I am happy for my kids to stay as long as they want, I felt like my parents were Itching for me to leave (youngest child)

I never did! I am 50 and still in my old family home! I was born here and unless I win the lottery I guess they will be carrying me out the same way they did both of my parents.

18 for University, back for 18 months or so, then out permanently at 22.

20 - moved to another country to live with my boyfriend. Never moved home.

My brother moved out at 18 and back for a year or so in his early twenties when he left uni. I think he would have stayed for longer but my parents moved house and told him he wasn't invited

19 to a house share, I went back briefly for 4 months at 26.

Left at 16 never went back

Ditto, just turned 16 and never went back. Couldn’t wait to get out.

22 after uni.

My mum made it clear that was what was going to happen.

My brother was waited on hand and foot and stayed rent free till nearly 40

23 and pregnant to live with my long term boyfriend (baby wasn't planned the coil didn't work). We lived in a damp nasty bedsit Very similar to the one in Gavin and Stacey as it was all we could afford. My mum told me she wasn't having a baby in her house and not to ask her for help.

18. I find it really strange when I see someone in their 20's posting about living with their parents on social media. I couldn't imagine living with my parents at that age.

13 - went off to boarding school abroad, and then my family moved whilst I was away. Went back for school holidays usually, but it wasn’t my home. When school finished it made sense to go on to uni from there, and then I started a career and just never went back to the country I grew up in, or the one my family had relocated to.