How old were you when you moved out on your own?

25

Engaged at 24 after nine years of dating. Bought a house. Moved out. Got married four months later.

Never went back to my folks’ place.

24. Moved out Super Bowl Sunday, couldn’t care less about the game. Got married the following June. Still am. Never went back, moved 2 more times since. In retirement home now. Not a retirement home, like that, but the home I’ll be retiring in soon.

21. I moved to England to live with my fiance.

19. I moved into a very cheap run down apartment. It wasn’t fun.

3 months after my 18th birthday. I was not kicked out. Moved in with some friends and then out on my own and then, after a couple years, into the Navy. The only time I moved back in with mom was for 2 weeks after I got out of the military while I looked for a place to live.

22. I had my own apartment until my father died. Then, I moved back home with my Mom to help her adjust.
I bought my own house 2 years later

18 for a year then I moved back for a few years to save money and left for good at 22 when I got a first real job that could support me.

21 when I moved out involuntarily, courtesy of the USN (never again).
I got out when I was 25, and returned to live with my parents.

Lived with the ‘rents until I was 27.
By then, I had saved enough coin to make a down payment on the house, where I still live.

I might have paid some room & board, but perhaps my dad spared me that expense.
If he did, it was probably to expedite my accruing enough pesos to move out with a financially secure foundation, and thereby never return.

Consequently, I’ve never had a landlord nor paid rent.

@BryanNineteenfortysicks

Wrong, strainer brain!

You, your bro, and your rents paid rent when y’all rented that house for 4 months. ;-p

Lettuce refrain from ranting about renting.

I was 19 and a college dropout. Through friends I found a stewardess in Boston who needed a roommate to share her apartment. We lived there for a year, until she moved west and I went back to school.

The next time I dropped out, I went back to my parents’ home for a short while and then moved out again. That time it stuck. I lived in various rental places in Boston and Cambridge while I finished college, and eventually I moved to California.

18. University. Not kicked out. Returned briefly a couple of times.

I was 18 when I left home (never went back) and shared a trailer with 2 other students while working part time jobs going to a junior college. Took me 3 years to get an AA degree. Then transferred to Humboldt State University where I shared another trailer with 3 other students. Took me another 3 years to earn a BA degree while working part time at KFC. No student loans. No help from my Mom (she had a low income job). My Father died when I was 4. My grandmother mother offered to help but since she was slightly demented and on a fixed income I declined.

I was kicked out when I was 16. Moved in with my grandparents and finished high school. 12 years later I came back home for 2 winters while I was between jobs.

I married and moved away at 19.

22. Graduated from college, moved to Georgia for a teaching job. Had two small returns to my parents’ home after that, then out for good at 24.

When I left for grad school, when I was 24, I never went back to live at home. My job after undergrad was near home so I lived at home between 22 and 24 to save money.