Easy Weekly Poll, This week: Moving Out Age Options

[Tiuri]

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A few rules:
- This is meant to be fun, so no difficult, controversial or political questions.
- Try and limit the number of options

As suggested by one of you.

How old were you when you moved out ???? For non-traditional circumstances, use the age that you started living independently.

[YORKSHIRE GUY]

Bought first house on my own at 22.

[GS Maniac]

Yay my poll suggestion

22 and still at home :/

[ATD]

Bought my house aged 20. If I hadn't I think I would have murdered my mother!

[AdrienAsche]

Technically I've moved out a few times. For convenience, I stay at home most of the time during summer months, but I have my own apartment in the town where I attend college.

[Astron]

I moved out at 23 when I came to England and no I didn't buy my own house and won't for a very long time. A I don't have the money and B I haven't found a place yet were I'm sure to settle down.

[deegee178]

I moved out at 19 when I went to Uni but went back and forth and had a period back at home before I properly moved out at 23. It's funny as whenever I do stay at my parents (usually over Christmas) it no longer feels like home!

[BillyBuddSailor]

At 28, when I came to Dublin....

[PUllio]

I finally moved out at 31, but I had been living mostly elsewhere for the last few years before. I know several people that age who haven't finally moved out, i.e. they live in a different country but keep a room home with stuff.

[John84]

Not counting uni, I was 21.

[smalltown]

Left for uni at 18 and a month and never went back with the exception of 3 months about 5 yrs ago when I was getting set up in a new job and needed a base to find a flat from.

That would be 10 years ago.

This post has been edited by smalltown: Jul 15 2012, 10:56

[berenger79]

Left at 18 to go to Uni, although I was home for my part-time job every weekend (complete with washing) so it wasn't exactly a wrench. I suppose it was a gradual process, blurred by flitting back and forth between the city and home in the country at weekends every so often when working post-Uni.

[jumbler]

It depends what you mean, really...

Left at 18 to go to Uni, although I was home for my part-time job every weekend (complete with washing) so it wasn't exactly a wrench. I suppose it was a gradual process, blurred by flitting back and forth between the city and home in the country at weekends every so often when working post-Uni.

Pretty much the same as my experience - at least to start with - only I didn't have a job.

You could also add to that time when I was at school. I boarded from age 11 onwards, until 18. So, for pretty much 15/16 years, I was away from home a lot. But always spent hols at home - which I sort of regret now.

But for actually, properly leaving home, I waited until after I left uni. So I would've been 27 then, 5 years ago. Still only a mile away from 'home', though. And I don't actually own the place. I still dream of moving away one day...

This post has been edited by jumbler: Jul 15 2012, 14:57

[lubi]

18 for university, and went far from home meaning that I was only back in the holidays. I moved out permanently the summer I finished university at 22.

[Boy1der]

Almost the day after I graduated from high school I moved in with some buds, I was 18.

[Parsifal]

Almost the day after I graduated from high school I moved in with some buds, I was 18.

Did they know they were living with a homo?

[Woof!]

I was about 30 when I moved out.

In some ways I wish I'd done it sooner, but it was cheap, comfortable, happy, good food, no bills and all washing and ironing done.

And I loved my mum!

[TzukeNut]

I put 22 as both my parents were dead by then but I didn't actually get my own place for about another year: stayed in the house till it was sold & then lived with one of my brothers until I bought this place.

Less than 18 months to go on the mortgage: hurrah! (Then I'll be better able to afford all the repairs that it now needs).

[Boy1der]

Almost the day after I graduated from high school I moved in with some buds, I was 18.

Did they know they were living with a homo?

No! I barely knew I was a homo and I had a girlfriend at the time; I was the only one in the house that was having sex with anyone so they thought I had it made! I did realize I was gay and came out later that summer though and when I told these guys and my best buds they all said, " You liar!" they didn't believe me anyway!

This post has been edited by Boy1der: Jul 15 2012, 23:38

[jumbler]

Bought first house on my own at 22.

Bought my house aged 20. If I hadn't I think I would have murdered my mother!

I put 22 as both my parents were dead by then but I didn't actually get my own place for about another year: stayed in the house till it was sold & then lived with one of my brothers until I bought this place.

Less than 18 months to go on the mortgage: hurrah! (Then I'll be better able to afford all the repairs that it now needs).

Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering whether youse were lucky to find a house that you could afford to buy, get a mortgage etc., or whether it was just cheaper to buy properties back then??

Put it another way, if you were in the same situation today, would you be renting a place, instead?? I think you probably would - because a lot of cheaper properties have been bought as BTL's these days. So there's less supply in housing.

And also, as you probably know, the rules regarding mortgages have been tightened up. And you need a big deposit - just like the 80s again. My folks actually paid a 50% deposit for their current house 30 years ago. Yes, in cash. They'd already been married 11 years then.

You just cannot do this sort of thing today - because it is so hard for younger guys (even under 30 in some cases) to get a job - and meet your living costs - for long enough to be able to save for the scale of a deposit needed today.

In the 80s you might be talking, maybe... a £10k/£15k/£20k house?? Perhaps paying between 1/3 / ½ that as a deposit, so that would be a good couple/three/four years single-person's salary even then. Now, even basic detached houses are 10 times as much. And terraces not far behind. It's just impossible.