Poll: At what age did you leave your "nest"

[chaosyoshimage]

19, and I'm still here. I hate it, but not in the angsty way I did when I was younger (Okay, a little bit, hick towns will do that to you). I really just hate leaching off my dad. I'm not in school, don't have a car, no job, and have no bloody clue how to get out of here and move on with my life...

 

[Sexy Devil]

Couple of days before my birthday early next year for university will be when I move out, so technically 16.

 

[Chalacachaca]

I haven't because I work at my hometown and life's expensive here, although my brother left the nest last year at 25 years old, he now lives in Canada (which is a good 8+ hour trip).

 

[Sonicron]

Moved out when I was 18, though not really by choice. My mom had just died of cancer, and my dad had left half a year earlier because mom divorced him; my little brother went to stay at dad's new place (which was about 150km away). Now, seeing how my last year of school was about to start I decided to stay put instead of going to some other school, but seeing how the old family house would have been far too expensive for one person to live in, we rented it out to a young family, and I got my own little apartment in the village.
About a year later I moved up north and have been living there happily since. When you grow up in an area with woods, mountains and valleys, moving to the coast is a great change of wallpaper.

 

[Uncle_Brainhorn]

18.

Things didn't work out so well, so I moved back in with my parents this year. 23 now.

But as soon as they finish renovating their new house, I get their old one. It's paid for and everything.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I moved out and rented a house with 2 friends at 20. I then moved to another house with friends at 21, eventually they moved out and I had to rent with random people. That was the worst nightmare of my life and now I rent my own apartment and its heaven.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

18, to go to university, then never went back. That's over a decade, now.

I was about to say welcome to the escapist before I saw your join date. :O

OT: I'm fifteen and have no idea when I plan to leave.

 

[Enkidu88]

I'm 23 and still living with my parents.

DON'T YOU DARE JUDGE ME!!!

(Sobs)

 

[rabidmidget]

2 weeks after turning 18.

A couple of Months ago.

 

[Rawne1980]

16. Went into the British Army.

Left the military at 28 and me and the wife got a house.

 

[laidtorest195]

18, moved from one side of Canada to the other, liking it too, even though making friends is tuff stuff

 

[tobi the good boy]

Well I'm 18 and living at home, but I'm still in school about to face my final exams. It will entirely depend on how things with Uni turn out whether or not I'll stick to home next year. If I get in I'll probably stay at home for financial reasons. If not I might get a job, work for a few years and live in an apartment until I can get into uni as a mature student which would mean I'd have more money to pay my bills.

Not sure.

 

[leady129]

I was out for two years at 19 while I studied, but I've had to come crawling back due to a lack of funds. I'm looking at breaking out again soon.

 

[capper42]

A couple of days after my 19th birthday when I started uni. I still technically count myself as living at home though because I still go back for Christmas, Easter and Summer holidays.

 

[Aprilgold]

Leaving at about 19 with a bud if I can support it, so we can both get "Basic" schooling done and head to Canada.

 

[Vault101]

well I went to boarding school when I was 15, then moved out when I was 18

I really couldnt stand the Idea of living with my parents

 

[Syntax Error]

24 and still in the nest. We value family here, and usually the time we leave the nest is the time we get married. Also, it's great for my financial standing Allows me to save up and do some other stuff.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Does it count that I leave my parent house when I went to University (18)? Otherwise I guess I haven't left just yet (since I back with them after I graduated).

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I left home pretty much on the stroke of my 17th birthday, and it was totally the right decision. Not only for me, with the freedom it gave me, but for my folks as well. I'd never stopped to look at it this way, but between me and my sister we'd kept my parents from being just a couple for nearly thirty years. As soon as I 'flew the nest' they reverted, almost overnight, to giddy teenagers again - it was beautiful to see. There were times in the first year or so that I ran into real trouble, but I'd be damned if I'd ask to move back in with my folks. They were back to being a young couple who've just fallen in love again - without all the 'family' baggage - and there was no way in hell I was gonna spoil that for them.