How old were you when you left home?

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i was 18

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22, went to work abroad.

In 1986. All these 16 year olds leaving home, what year was it?

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15

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@maddiemookins16mum

In 1986. All these 16 year olds leaving home, what year was it?

Not 16 but 17. Year was 2008. Didn't get on too well with my step parent and I was never planning on going to uni (was working full time) so I moved out into a house share. I was permanently skint mind.

gobackanddoitproperly I was homeless, I lived on a much older friends sofa. I used her address as my care of address, to get on a YT course.

Flat wise, there was a flat above a work place in a more industrial part of town, were the landlord knew how to play the system, for a deposit he would back date my application. As much as I wanted my own place, I never took the flat, and looking back I think I had a narrow escape.

there where less dodgy places to rent, but most bedsits were full and you had to wait for one to become available.

I moved back home at 17 then moved out a few months later to live with a Boyfriend and his family.

At 19 I bought a house.

this was all in the 90s

20, husband 19, married and owned our own house.
36 years later we are still happy.

18. I knew quite a few people in the early nineties who moved out into house shares at 16.

18. Went to university and got a part time job that I did full time during the holidays so never really went back.

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@gobackanddoitproperly

Those who left at 16, how? How do you secure a rental at that age?

I secured a place in halls at college. They let me stay year round. My dad signed to make it legal but I paid for it with my wages. I had friends who rented privately, some would have older friends/family as guarantor, some had older bf.

16 too. I moved half way across the country and me and my friend rented rooms at the top of someone’s house. In hindsight I was way too young but that said I stuck it out and not lived at home since. My parents weren’t bothered. I’d be devastated of my Dc wanted to leave home at that age. It was in the 1980a though so genuinely different times.

15, in 1999. I sofa surfed until I was 16 and i then became eligible for a hostel place.

I was 18

I left at 18, went to uni. I returned for the holidays my first year, but then my parents moved towns and I have never lived with them since. They bought a house with no permanent room for me, I think I would have gone back if not for that but I'm glad now of the push for independence and the fact I stayed in my uni city and met my DH and have the life I live now.

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Left home for poly at 18 in 1976, never went back as I started a job straight after poly that had accommodation attached. I didn't buy a house until I was about 25 and had been married two years- we lived in a council flat first two years. The idea of staying at home and saving a deposit for a house never entered my head, my focus was on getting away and living my own independent life.

The answers on this thread seem so young, I'm a millennial and didn't leave until 25 and I know quite a few people who were still at home into their 20s. Due to rising house prices, it's the only way many people can save a deposit.

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16. Moved in with friends.