How old do you think is too old to be living with your parents?

There are no "rules" to how long you live with your parents, and anyone who says otherwise is a moron. There are very few people in this world who will be prepared to give much of a **** about you besides your family and blood, and if a person needs help with their living situation for longer than is "average", for whatever reason, then as long as both they and more importantly their parents are cool with it then who is anyone else to judge. Yes, it's not going to look attractive to many women if you are still living with your parents at 30+, but better to have a good standard of living then be in a rathole that you can barely afford. :)
 
22 and back at home after 3 years away for university. Will now start saving around 200 a month and hope to be out by 25. These will be added to the savings I already have.
 
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Looking at this thread, it explains why GD is crawling with threads such as "How many sugars do I have in ny tea?".

Honestly, how do you explain to a lady that you still live with your mum and dad? Anybody over 25 who lives with their folks is statistically more likely to be a lonely serial killer who has original Transformers on a shelf.*

I know some guy who is 40 and lives with his mum. He also goes on holiday with her... A little too wierd for me.

*Possibly.
 
Richdog said:
There are no "rules" to how long you live with your parents, and anyone who says otherwise is a moron. There are very few people in this world who will be prepared to give much of a **** about you besides your family and blood, and if a person needs help with their living situation for longer than is "average", for whatever reason, then as long as both they and more importantly their parents are cool with it then who is anyone else to judge. Yes, it's not going to look attractive to many women if you are still living with your parents at 30+, but better to have a good standard of living then be in a rathole that you can barely afford. :)
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Very good post, I totally agree.
 
semi-pro waster said:
I don't believe there are or should be any hard and fast rules about when is too old to stop living with parents. I haven't lived with my parents since I was about 18 apart from a few months totalled over various summers at uni and much as I love them I don't think I'd want to go back to living with them. There's nothing wrong with it especially but I like my own freedom and that's something they have always encouraged me with so they can't be surprised by the results.
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Exactly this for me too :)
 
I didn't move out until i was 27 and only moved out because i ended up meeting my GF when i was 26 and moved in with her, if i'd not met her i'd still live with my dad.

Didn't have plans to move out as i simply didn't want the expense i was quite happy only having to give up £140 of my wage plus another £30 for my mobile phone and having the rest as spending money. It meant i could go out every Friday & Saturday night, not worry at all about what i spent and still have a load spare to do anything i wanted with.
 
When I was travelling lots for work I felt it stupid to get into a rent agreement considering I'd hardly be spending time at home and pouring money down the drain. So up until 26 I was living at my parents home. However, I paid them some "rent" - i.e. to cover my bills and contributed towards food shopping - did most of my own washing etc... It was convenient and fine.

However, when I stopped travelling it was too much to live with them all the time. I love them to bits and see them whenever I have time (we're a very close family) but living with them as an adult I couldn't do. For the past 5 years I've been happily away from home.


I think as long as you don't take the mick and you contribute towards the housekeeping and towards the bills etc... then if it's a convenient situation then there's no problem. I think I take issue when people rely on living at home with their parents and basically sponge of them unnecessarily.

Personally I like my own space and my independence - don't get me wrong, there's nothing I like more than going home and being pampered! :D However, as a young adult (which I still feel I am), I think it's healthier and more interesting to live in your own home by your own means. For a lot of people it's a learning curve as to how to budget/deal with money, utilities etc... I don't turn my nose up at people who still live at home, but it's just personally something that I'm glad I did for a while, but happy to have moved away from.

Don't get me wrong, if the excrement hit the spinning blades - I'd happily swallow my pride and move back in with them until such a time I could stand on my own 2 feet again. :)
 
Well, I lived away from home between the ages of 18 and 24 because my parents moved to France, then Dad died, Mum came home, I went through a break up, and then moved in with her at 24. I'm 26 in a couple of weeks, and I'm actively looking to move out because I want to be back in my local town nearer to work and friends, and also feel that I SHOULD move out.

I love living with my Mum though, if she lived in town (where I want to move), then I wouldn't bother moving out. We like having each other around, especially since my Dad died.
 
In your situation SS I can completely sympathise. I guess your father's death has brought you even closer? Sorry to hear about your father though :(
 
There is definitely no age in which you should feel you need to move out. I was 24 and to be honest If I was single I would probably still be with my parents, but with me and girlfriend having been together for quite a while, felt it was time to get a place together. But it does helps with the girlfriend bringing a wage in as well or else I wouldn't have been able to move out. It'd be great if I could still live with my mum and dad, enjoying pretty much my entire wage, whereas now I'm lucky if I see any of it as the mortgage, bills etc are stealing it from me :p
 
Jimz said:
Times have changed these days, people cant afford to move out.
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This is something I strongly disagree with. I don't understand how, at say 25, you can't have a job that pays enough for rent of a modest flat/house.

You can't live with your parents all your life, you need to stand on your own 2 feet at some point ...
 
Basher said:
This is something I strongly disagree with. I don't understand how, at say 25, you can't have a job that pays enough for rent of a modest flat/house.
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I could have moved out earlier than i did and rented, but doing it myself would have meant almost my entire wage went on bills and just staying alive. I don't even think i'd have been able to run a car properly, I wanted to actually have a life. And i didn't want to move in with a friend or such as that would have been far worse than living with my dad.
 
Freefaller said:
In your situation SS I can completely sympathise. I guess your father's death has brought you even closer? Sorry to hear about your father though :(
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Yeah definitely, I think it was good for both of us to live together as she spent a year on her own in France, and also it allowed us to make up for lost time as in the 6 years they were out there I was only really able to see them both once or twice a year.
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Yeah definitely, I think it was good for both of us to live together as she spent a year on her own in France, and also it allowed us to make up for lost time as in the 6 years they were out there I was only really able to see them both once or twice a year.
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It's wonderful you've been able to take such a horrid event and turn it into something more positive :)
 
I did the whole go to uni thing, come back in the hols, then spent a month or 2 at home after uni before moving out so would have been 21.
 
Lived out at university for 3 years, moved back home last may, said i would be making some decisions by this point, nothing has really changed.

I get on with my parents pretty well compared to some but i miss having my own place

Oh and i was 25 last month
 
Moved out at 18 to go to Uni in 2000.

Lived in a shared house with mates for 2 years.

Then moved into the Mrs's Mum's house for a year so we could save up some pennies.

Then rented our own place for 2 years.

Then bought our own house in 2005 at 23, still there now, but looking for a bigger one!
 
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