How old were you when you left home?

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i was 18

I was 17. I then spent the next 4 years renting the cheapest places that I could afford whilst also studying. Funnily enough those places weren’t always the safest and I got myself into some sticky situations.

16 officially, but had more or less moved out a year before.

Dd1 is 16, as much as she drives me mad, I’d be gutted if she wanted to move out now and tbh, she seems too young.

27, I was very comfortable with mum and dad thank you 😁

My room had everything I wanted, I could come and go as I pleased.
We looked after each other, and enjoyed each other's company.

There till my now DH and I saved enough for a deposit on a flat

16. Went to uni after 5th year (Scotland) late birthday. Never moved back. Surprised how common on here 🤣 I'm the only person I know who moved out that young.

20- Then boyfriend (now DH) had both worked full time from 18, part time from 16 and we bought our first house at 20.

My mum worked in a bog standard comp through the 90s and told us about more than one kid being kicked out of their childhood homes the day they turned 16 and expected to survive alone. It was extremely difficult for them.

I do think there has been an attitude change since then and most people expect to house their kids until they are at least 18.

18

19. I haven't ever had to move back home, but I know that my parents would give me the option if I ever ran in to difficulties that meant I needed to.

17 in the 80s. Went to uni.

17

16 - rented a bed sit

18 thought I was a grown up but turns out when I got the mumps I still needed my mum and then stayed until I was 20 then moved out with my partner

Moved in with family who basically saved my life & put me onto the right road with love & guidance.

Could never repay them.

Friend was 16 and rented a bedsit…for £18 per week! Gotta love the 1980’s!

I was 14 when I moved out of home. Yes, I moved in with my grandmother, but it certainly wasn't the easy choice. She was ill, needed oxygen, and I basically became her unofficial carer. All this whilst trying to carry on getting an education, plus holding down a part time job in the evenings and at weekends.
My mum thought it was acceptable that I lived with my nan, it gave her the perfect excuse to go no contact with her.
I've not really forgiven my mum for letting me do that. I coped right up until I started A-Levels and it became too much to deal with.
I wish I could get hold of 14-year-old me and tell her to make better choices and stick up for herself more.

On the plus side though, it was better looking after my nan than it was being shouted at every single day at home. So, every cloud has a silver lining, I guess.

Moved away for uni at 18, but fully moved out at 22.

18. Isn’t that standard?

I was put out when I had just turned 17. Parents found a bedsit and moved me into it.

DSis saw what was coming to her and moved before she too was shown the door.

She made a much better life at that point as she moved in with friends. I bounced from bedsit to squat for a couple of years before moving 100 or so miles away. Parents didn't know where I was for about 2 years.

I should have left it that way but I contacted DSis and visited them when I went to see her.

That was 1982.

16, in the late 90s

It was a house share with some American girls who were here travelling, back then you just took your wage slip in to the agents and that was that.

Amazing time of my life but I look at my kids and their friends now and can't imagine any of them would cope

22

19, just, to move in with a boyfriend. Back home at 21. Moved in with another boyfriend at 22, and have since married him so, with any luck, won’t be moving home again

16 for me. I thought that was unusual but it seems not!

I think its much less defined when kids move out around university these days.

I moved out at 18, spent a year on an internship, then went to university. I only had term time accom so had to come home for the holidays.

Then lived at home for a year and a half after finishing uni, before moving out again into shared accommodation then finally private rented.

Some people were very odd about kids coming home in the holidays, presumably not realising that lots of university accommodations are 52 weeks a year. People tend not to realise the way grants work these days means its based on parental income so parents are expected to financially support you at uni (and you can't loan more money). My parents were iffy about me moving back in after uni, until I explained the amount of overdraft I was in, and the amount expected for a deposit these days.