Anybody else still live at home?

[Gorilla Gunk]

So I'm 21 going on 22 and I still live at home with my mom and her husband which I find quite embarrassing and, well, a bit shameful. Pitiful. Pathetic. When I was growing up, I honestly thought I'd have my own home right now. Like a real house, not an apartment. I was a pretty stupid kid.

I think I made some bad decisions. After graduating highschool I quite my part-time job and went to a local community college for a bit. After a few semesters I got another job which I worked for almost a year before being fired because I had the audacity to get in a work-related accident (sprained my arm, then later pulled a muscle in my chest). I tried to save money during that period but in retrospect I really wasn't making that much everything I made went to either paying my ridiculously high car insurance bill, buying my own food and gas, and paying medical bills and such.

I'm trying to find my way out now. Tried to get into a real college but my grades weren't good enough so I have to crawl back to the community college. Trying to get another a second job but the market sucks right now. My sister told me about some places in the city that are like $700-800 a month but I'd have to put a bunch of locks on my doors and nail my windows shut. I'm hoping I'll be out within the next year or so. Hope. Heck, I'm seriously considering living out of my car. It's a Honda Element so there's enough room in the back for a small blow-up mattress.

So are there any other 20somethings out there still living at home? How are you working on getting out?

And if there are any people my age or younger who somehow got their own place, tell us how you managed that.

PS. Sorry for the excessively whiny post above. It hasn't been a good day. That has a lot to fo with the actual date of today then what happened, understand?

 

[RaffB]

22 in a few months and still living with my dad while I'm at uni.

We leave each other alone most of the time, barring the occasional mechanical malfunction ( my motorbikes broken and I have no clue how to fix it), computer malfunction (same thing, but other way round), either of us have seen something stupidly funny and we show each other and the times when we both chip in for a take-away.

It's not too unusual to still be living at home and it's better than either living on the street or some rat-infested flat.

Always remember, good things come to those who wait and those who prepare for them.

 

[Jedoro]

Nope, moved out last February while I was 20. Hell, this summer I might just stop renting and buy a cheap house and rent out the rooms to my friends.

 

[Zantos]

Soon to be 22, moved out at 18 to go to university. Still go back home for a few days, maybe a week or so in holidays, but I stay in a 'guest room'. But soon I shall graduate, join the real world and get a nice flat and a job that pays well enough to have a nice flat.

 

[Sovvolf]

Nope, though honestly I wouldn't sweat it, I lived with my parents for so long eventually they moved out...

 

[Sleekgiant]

21 and still with the folks, they want me to stay longer as I take care of the house.

I'm at wits end though, thinking about getting an apartment this summer.

 

[Rin Little]

I'm 22, was living on my own from the age of 19 up until recently but that was because I went through a lot of shit to get there. I was literally homeless for about two months and slept in my car while at the uni I was attending. Afterwards I got a job asap (retail) and kept working until I got an apartment with my now ex and continued to work all the way through school. When we broke up I realized I wasn't making enough to live on my own so I moved back in with my mom. I've been working ever since September and saving money for my own place. You just have to plan ahead for things.

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

I'm trying to plan ahead. Right now I'm focused on getting another/second job. May go back to school during the summer.

A lot of people say I should get a roommate but I don't think I could manage living with a complete stranger (No real friends so to speak). But it may come to that so I'm going to have to get over any anxieties I may have over it.

When I was in high school I knew some kids who not only lived by themselves but had full time jobs. Some even made room for college. I was always kind of jealous of those kids, even more so now.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

I'm working on going to college or uni at 18 right now, but I'm working full time and making as much cash as I can (3.4k if I can sell my old comp)

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Technically, I am in th military, so I live on base when at work, but move around a lot, so my official address is still with my parents. I also live there on weekends, if I am near enough, and whenever I am on leave. Having a couple of months off in April, so will be home with the folks then! I'm 23... its not uncommon!

 

[StormShaun]

Im going to start college this year so yeah, also I'm 17 years olds, so it is quite expected...

 

[Agayek]

I graduated uni at 22 and moved in with my mom for a year while looking for a job. It came together eventually and moved out, but living with your parents isn't terribly shameful or anything. Especially with the economy the way it is. Living on your own is expensive, be grateful you don't have to foot rent, utilities and food bills. It gets old, really really fast.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I do, but Im still with in college.

Though I have a cousin who's out of school and is living with his parents still. His plan is to live there to his parents either:
a) die
b) get put in a home
c) leave

why yes, i tell him he's pathetic all the time for his plan, but hes family.

 

[DJDarque]

Just turned 22 and still live at home. I want to move out, but it would be difficult on them financially (I have to pay a good chunk of the bills). Once my mother gets her disability money I'm saving up to move out ASAP.

 

[MMSouthpawVIII]

I'm 21 and I'll be moving out in 4 days. Scared as hell, haha

I did live in an apartment to go to a school a few hours away from home for a year, but that ended up being a terrible decision and I spent all of my money. Now I have my old job back from before I left so I should be ok.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Nope. Lived on campus once I started college, stayed on campus for a year and a half (not counting summer, of course) until my friends and I all rented an awesome house together. Just moved in about three weeks ago. I guess I haven't really lived with my parents for quite some time now.

Huh.

 

[Vault101]

does it count if your parents own the house and you pay very low rent?

 

[Exterminas]

How about living together with two or three other persons?
Almost no student/young worker that I know has an appartment or even a house on their own. They all live with roommates to share the rent.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Nineteen, gonna be twenty in less than a year and I'm living with my grandmother. I'm working a (Badly paying) job ATM and I honestly have no clue how I'm going to achieve financial independence at this rate. Can't afford college (Parents won't help, can't get scholarships in spite of being relatively smart, can't handle the debt of loans) and I'm not sure if I'll be advancing through the ranks at work anytime soon.

So...yeah. No idea what I'm gonna do with myself. If college ever becomes an option, I'm going to try to study psychology.