AM I WRONG

[Sin_Chase]

I live at home and pay £500 a month rent. It's vastly cheaper than if I was out on my own. I have been paying rent since they day I got a job (at 17)

Given the price of housing here I would have little to no disposable income if I went it alone and I am not in a relationship that would allow me to comfortably sail through a mortgage.

 

[FoxEye]

I live at home and pay £500 a month rent. It's vastly cheaper than if I was out on my own.

£500 a month? Couldn't you rent your own house with that much? Maybe not in somewhere posh, but...

 

[mushroomsoup]

if they won't help out with rent, kick them out, it'll be the making of them.

 

[campbell]

I live at home and pay £500 a month rent.

Blooming Ekk! Thats crazy money! So they expect you to pay 1/2 their mortgage(hypothetically), good one!

Id rather be doing my own thing and poor than paying into that. Mental!

If its too expensive where you stay why not move?

... Actually i think your pulling our monkey

 

[Sin_Chase]

Check my location.

 

[D.Roberts]

£500 a month? Couldn't you rent your own house with that much? Maybe not in somewhere posh, but...

I have an old cardboard box near me front door.

For £500 a month you could rent that if ya like I will bring you a coffee every morning for free.

 

[finga]

you have a responsibility to teach them the value of money and the cost of living, stick to your guns, i was paying board as soon as i earned, and rightly so, although i didnt like it, i realise now, i had it easy

 

[campbell]

Check my location.

Hmm..... Why not migrate to the UK? Or buy a camper van?

 

[D.Roberts]

Yep me to I was earning £40 a week and working hard for it to and I gave my parents £20 I was only 17 or 18 at college to.

 

[FoxEye]

I have an old cardboard box near me front door.

For £500 a month you could rent that if ya like I will bring you a coffee every morning for free.

Prices in Oxford take the pee tho, don't they A cardboard box for £500 a month would be about the going rate there

 

[D.Roberts]

haha tbh your not wrong at least im throwing in a coffee (not literally ) each morning for free

 

[Repta]

I didnt get charged on my gap year, dad said to use the money on my trip instead. Though i did pull my weight around the house. Also beer, treats etc i had to pay for myself. I expect something similar when im home for summer but if im asked to pay board i will.

If i was working properly or sitting around doing nothing with my life i can guarantee i would be made to pay board or i would get kicked out.

 

[SlugForAButt]

I paid £5 p/w out of my £18 wage as board when I started working.
You are going to see them become nothing that any mother could be proud of if you aren't careful.

 

[M0T]

I pay £325 a month in rent to my mum and I'm 23, my girlfriend pays £220 a month to her parents and they have so much money that they don't even notice it.

In short paying rent to parents when you have a job is the done thing.