Anybody else still live at home?

[CrashBang]

I do but I just finished university and am training to be an English teacher so I'm technically in my fourth year. My girlfriend and I are going to get a flat in Cardiff in the summer, hopefully, and I might even be lucky enough to get a well-paid teaching job!

 

[RatRace123]

I'm 20, I live at home. I don't find living at home to be shameful or pathetic.
Of course my college is a 30 minute drive from my house, so there's a big reason for my staying.

 

[natster43]

18 and still live at home. Don't really see a reason to move out,as the college I am going to is close.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I'll be 22 at the end of the month, and I still live at home too. It was something my parents and I planned out before I graduated highschool (I can live at home as long as I'm in college, after that I need to either move out or pay rent), but it is still pretty restrictive, especially after living in a dorm for the last year and a half. I went to community college for two years, and then I moved on to University. I'm still enrolled there, but this term I have an internship in my home county as nine out of the 12 hours I'm taking, with the other three being a once a week class an hour away from home, so there was no sense in paying out the nose to live somewhere aside from home this term.

 

[Guffe]

I don't know how it is in the rest of the world but here (Finland) it's not unusual for people to live at home until 20-22 when you move to study somewhere else.
You usually go to basic school (7-16) and then "gymnasium/yrkesskola" (highschool 16-19) and these schools often are in the neighbourhood so you don't need to move away from home.
Then when 19/20 every guy goes to the army (it's mandatory) for 6 or 12 months and THEN you go study to a bigger city and move away from home.
I got out from the army a few days ago and am searching for work at the moment for about 6 months saving money for my studies = I live at home.
Don't stress it, and don't move until you can afford it.

 

[teqrevisited]

Yep. 22. Moving out right now would mean I would have no money left to even eat or keep the place warm. When I can afford to I will.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I don't know how it is in the rest of the world but here (Finland) it's not unusual for people to live at home until 20-22 when you move to study somewhere else.
You usually go to basic school (7-16) and then "gymnasium/yrkesskola" (highschool 16-19) and these schools often are in the neighbourhood so you don't need to move away from home.
Then when 19/20 every guy goes to the army (it's mandatory) for 6 or 12 months and THEN you go study to a bigger city and move away from home.
I got out from the army a few days ago and am searching for work at the moment for about 6 months saving money for my studies = I live at home.
Don't stress it, and don't move until you can afford it.

What's going on here is in the US, people used to be able to graduate high school and walk straight into a job which would allow them to live on their own, and eventually work their way to a position which would allow them to support a family. Those jobs dried up a decade or two ago, but the stigma with not being out of the house by 18 never left, leaving those of us who are doing the responsible thing in terms of going to college stuck between parents who want to treat us like children because we aren't yet making enough money to support ourselves[footnote]and therefore must clearly only have the responsibilities and freedoms of children[/footnote], and the specter of debt and homelessness if we or our parents get fed up enough with the situation to wind up with us moving out before finishing our degrees. It's really terrible, and it seems to be a problem unique to the US.

 

[Guffe]

I don't know how it is in the rest of the world but here (Finland) it's not unusual for people to live at home until 20-22 when you move to study somewhere else.
You usually go to basic school (7-16) and then "gymnasium/yrkesskola" (highschool 16-19) and these schools often are in the neighbourhood so you don't need to move away from home.
Then when 19/20 every guy goes to the army (it's mandatory) for 6 or 12 months and THEN you go study to a bigger city and move away from home.
I got out from the army a few days ago and am searching for work at the moment for about 6 months saving money for my studies = I live at home.
Don't stress it, and don't move until you can afford it.

What's going on here is in the US, people used to be able to graduate high school and walk straight into a job which would allow them to live on their own, and eventually work their way to a position which would allow them to support a family. Those jobs dried up a decade or two ago, but the stigma with not being out of the house by 18 never left, leaving those of us who are doing the responsible thing in terms of going to college stuck between parents who want to treat us like children because we aren't yet making enough money to support ourselves[footnote]and therefore must clearly only have the responsibilities and freedoms of children[/footnote], and the specter of debt and homelessness if we or our parents get fed up enough with the situation to wind up with us moving out before finishing our degrees. It's really terrible, and it seems to be a problem unique to the US.

Wow...
That must kinda suck. I mean I live at home yes but my parents still treat me as a grown up/friend. I can see how that turns out to be a problem.