What was your first home like when you moved out from your parents?

Was a bedroom with cable tv/Internet and shared kitchen and bathrooms. Its my apartment and I can walk around in my underwear and take showers and eat when ever I want.

Also I had my own fridge and microwave in my bedroom. I ate lots of pizza pockets.

Cheap apartment, living with my girlfriend. Lower level (windows were at ground level) of a three-story building three blocks from where I worked. Noisy.

Cheap ($146/month in 1978). We stayed there a little over a year, then rented a house about a mile away.

A college dorm room. Cinder block walls, two desks, two single beds, two dressers, and matching closets. An overhead light.

Shared a trailer 4 other student while going to college and working part time. Took me 6 years of living like that to get my BA.

My situation now is upper middle class.

I lived in a dorm room on Stanford campus. It was a nicer dorm room with an en-suite bathroom, but still a dorm and I was eager to move out. From there I lived in a small, old house with friends and then an apartment with one close friend. I live in a townhome now with a roommate. I have not yet lived alone or owned a home.

Moved into a brand new duplex at age 17. So my brick ranch is fine, but it was really nice to have everything brand spanking new.

We first lived on the edge of a major city.Noise,traffic,crime-no thanks.
Now we live on the water and I used to walk out the door, hop on my little boat and go for a ride. It’s much quieter here and I love that.

Just a small, plain, single-bedroom apartment.

@Darth_Algar Some days I’d trade ya. Home repairs never stop.

Well, first move out was to a dorm, but the folks paid for that so we won’t count that.
First REAL move out was to a studio apartment.
Then my sister moved in so we got a 2 bedroom.
Then I met and married my first husband.
I live in an 1800 sq foot house that I’m just $30,000 away from owning free and clear.

@Dutchess_III that’s awesome to be that close! I owe $95k still on my home and I even put $50k down. I think I’ll need to start paying a couple extra payments a year to drop it quicker.

Rick is past retirement age and I’m almost there, so it’s a little scary. Neither of us will have anything except SS to fall back on. It’s kind of scary.

I feel ya! I keep praying for that big inheritance or lottery!

I worked for the father of a friend of mine. He died when I was 18 and his sons asked if I wanted to move in. I left home to move in with them…a 4 bdrm house in suburbia. We had the party house, that was for sure.

@KNOWITALL

That was just my first place after moving out from my parent’s. I haven’t lived there in a decade and a half. Nowadays I live in a house that was built in the 1860s. It has its issues.

@Darth_Algar Oh wow, that sounds so cool! I almost bought some land with an old house like that, but it would have had to be completely gutted. Very lovely home though, I envy you the beauty but not the bills…haha!

My house was built in 1910.

Just a small mansionette in the country, bare minimum staff & only the one swimming pool.
It was a struggle, but I fought through those days somehow!

We had a one-bedroom apartment in an old apartment building owned by my FIL. It was a very nice building and our apartment was huge and lovely. We had to keep all of the common area clean and my husband had to keep coal in the furnace that heated the whole building as well as the water heater that served the whole building. I think there were 22 apartments….18 studios and four one-bedroom. We stayed there almost two years then we moved away for grad school. I’ve lived in much nicer buildings and places but I never loved a home more than I loved that one.