How old were you when you left home?

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i was 18

16/17, I had an incident happen to me that was traumatic and moved in with my ex partner for over five years I've paid my own rent the entire duration, at 16/17 the county council helped subsidize my rent and acted as a parental guarantor for my rent, my ex partner had moved in, in secret. I have just completed my degree after splitting with my ex at the end of last year and live in London working for a utilities company and rent my own small place.

I tried to leave at thirteen, then at fifteen, then at sixteen.

18 after it was made very clear to me that once I left there would be no going back under any circumstances.

24 - but I lived in a country where you tend to stay at home for University. When I did move out, I moved to a different country.

When I was 16 my parents moved home and left me behind in the old one. Technically my older brother (mid-20s) also lived there but he stayed almost exclusively at his girlfriend's.

At 18 I went off to uni and got into my own place.

So 18, but I lived essentially alone before then.

18. Went off to uni and the second I did, my mum stripped my room and turned it into an office so I had to sleep on the floor if I returned for summer holidays.

17. in a squat with a bunch of punks.

17

18, moved abroad too. I'm 33 now and the trend among friends and twenty somethings I know is staying home until 30ish.

15, kind of.
Mum got remarried and moved out as she didn’t feel it was right to move a new partner into our household.
My older sister and I lived together (went to school and both had part time jobs) so we paid board (mum paid the mortgage, power and gas) and we did our own shopping cooking etc.

16

17, moved in with my much older boyfriend

16. Went to a job that had accommodation included straight after my O levels.

16 with my DS in to a one bedroom house
Then put a deposit on my own house at 22 and moved in to my house I’m in now.

18. Then emigrated alone at 19.

I’ve been a bit of a boomerang. I moved out for the first time at 18 to go to university, but I stayed at my parents after graduation at 21 and a few other times between rentals in my 20s.
I also lived there for a year at 30/31 after returning from living abroad. I’m a homeowner now, so hopefully won’t need to go back again.

16. Back then. It was easy to get a private rental with a contract and wageslip: the whole Buy To Let industry hadn't taken off tho Council Houses were being snapped up & not replaced. I had to go stay with a friends family after failing first time round - I was so young & so ill but my stepdad padlocked my bedroom door & said get a job so that was the end of my uni hopes.

17

19

17. I had a job and was pregnant. Boyfriend was 19.

I did a little stint of a few months away from home 16 first where I stayed with a friend. Moved in with grandparents after that. They were pretty clever and framed it in a way that was more "could you move in and help because we're struggling with chores and finances" rather than "come live with us because we're worried about you".

It was obviously the latter, but I responded much better to thinking they needed me .

For what it's worth, I'm 30 and barely any of the friends I went to high school with have properly moved out other than the odd stints of living with boyfriends before coming back home. I often wonder how they're ever going to manage it...? I was lucky to get a mortgage really young and "flipped" my way up the property ladder throughout my twenties. I cannot fathom how the daughter I had at 17 will be able to do what I did without me starting to save right now for a deposit.

19 and then 22. And then a bit of boomeranging in my late 20s in between travelling.

16. Left school and started a gap year working in a field I thought I was interested in. Got sponsored by employer through part time degree program.

19

18 for Uni, 21 permanently.
Dd moved out 2 years ago when she was 17.