How old is too old to live at home?

How old do you think is too old to be living at home?

I think if you have a job then by around 22 should be old enough. Having said that I know a few people in their mid to late twenties who still live at home, but that is mostly due to reasons like health.

How old were when you moved out of home? If you did/do live as an adult, do you to help with household stuff or are your parents really strict?

I was 17 but then had to go back when I was 18. I was only going to stay for a few months but ended up staying until I was 20. While I was back at home I paid some rent, did my own washing and cooked for myself. My parents were fairly easy going, as long as I called if I wasn't coming home they didn't mind what I did.
Some of my friends who were living at home around the same age as me had to still ask for permission to do most things.

I'm in my mid twenties now and still know some people around my age who live at home. Some of them are intellegent educated people but just have no idea about life stuff. Of course that doesn't mean everyone who lives at home is clueless.

So what age do you think people should move out of home, given they have no health or real financial issues?

Left home aged twenty one. After finishing University I went back home long enough to build up the bank blance a bit, then left. I wouldn't have wanted to stay much later than that. If you're well into your twenties, have a job and are able to support yourself, then it's probably about time you pissed off.

For a lot of people in London, finances dictate how old you are when you leave home. If you're saving to actually buy a place, then living at home into your 30s is more then conceivable.

There are other mitigating factors, such as how well you get on with your parents, if you are in a long term relationship, how close your current job is to home, etc.

I think the stigma of staying at home, particularly in London, has long since eroded. Some people move in with a partner or into a shared house and just swap one form of family life for another, so perceptually, they've not actually left 'home'.

I didn't move out of home until my mid 20s and that was only because I wanted to be able to walk to work. However, it does teach you independence, responsibility, discipline and self reliance.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ October 15 2012, 1:18 PM BST

If you're well into your twenties, have a job and are able to support yourself, then it's probably about time you pissed off.

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Tell that to Prince Charles!

The answer is 21 or, if you're Italian, never.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 15 2012, 1:40 PM BST

If you're saving to actually buy a place, then living at home into your 30s is more then conceivable.

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Not if I was your parent!

I'd certainly feel like I was mooching if I was into my thirties. 'But I wanna house... I want! I want! '

Quote: David Bussell @ October 15 2012, 1:45 PM BST

The answer is 21.

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Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 15 2012, 1:40 PM BST

I didn't move out of home until my mid 20s and that was only because I wanted to be able to walk to work. However, it does teach you independence, responsibility, discipline and self reliance.

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Yea, I think the independence and responsibility is a big part of it. I guess I just used to get fustrated a bit when my friends who lived at home got pissed off when I couldn't go to the movies or out to dinner beacause I had to pay rent or electricity.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ October 15 2012, 1:46 PM BST

I'd certainly feel like I was mooching if I was into my thirties. 'But I wanna house... I want! I want! '

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You do know how much houses in London cost? You're looking at a major down payment, somewhere in the region of £50k for most places.

If you've got that kind of money lying around, then living at home would be bad, but if like the rest of society, who want to get a foothold on the property ladder, why piss money down the drain on rent?

Your mocking tears will have no impact on whether someone wants to save up to buy a house. (The average age of a first time buyer in London has risen to 33)

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 15 2012, 1:51 PM BST

You do know how much houses in London cost? You're looking at a major down payment, somewhere in the region of £50k for most places.

If you've got that kind of money lying around, then living at home would be bad, but if like the rest of society, who want to get a foothold on the property ladder, why piss money down the drain on rent?

Your mocking tears will have no impact on whether someone wants to save up to buy a house. (The average age of a first time buyer in London has risen to 33)

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Quote: Matthew Stott @ October 15 2012, 1:53 PM BST

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I can see that leaving home early has worked wonders with your emotional maturity.

bravo.

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I can see that leaving home early has worked wonders with your emotional maturity.

bravo.

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Dear me. Really? Who knew you felt so deeply about the subject that a little messing was out of the question.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ October 15 2012, 1:57 PM BST

Dear me. Really? Who knew you felt so deeply about the subject that a little messing was out of the question.

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Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 15 2012, 1:58 PM BST

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Too late now.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ October 15 2012, 1:59 PM BST

Too late now.

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Just because your parents hated you from birth and couldn't wait to kick you out of the house, doesn't mean everyone is in the same boat.

My cousins whose families lived in London all lived at home till their md/late 2os.

Then took the rent money they'd diligently and duly got themselves a foot on the property ladder.

Rather more mature than thinking you're a grown up because you piss half your wage on a room and have your very own shelf in the fridge.

These kind of generic questions are well frankly retarded. As they general to the point of irrelevance. A friend of mine in Hull moved out aged 17, because property is so cheap and unlived in there. That getting your own place is a mere matter of form filling.

Where as my cousin in Israel lives in a static carravan in her inlaws garden in Israel. Because out there property prices and mortgages are unatainable for most.