I think the burning question is, how young do you think is too young to not live at home?
How old is too old to live at home? Page 3
Even more confused. If you have your own place then you live at home. What's age got to do with it, other than it's usually not before your 20s for most?
I'll throw you a curve ball. I live at home. The home I grew up in. I bought that home from my parents...! Brain freeze!
Ha. Do you have them living in the basement?
Don't be daft! That's where the projector is set up. They have a small area in the loft, behind the Christmas decorations and my Amiga 500.
Quote: A is for Adam @ October 17 2012, 10:04 PM BSTDon't be daft! That's where the projector is set up. They have a small area in the loft, behind the Christmas decorations and my Amiga 500.
I wish I could move out, but I need to save up so that I can afford to study for another year to be a teacher. I'm working 4 days a week, and doing work experience on Mondays. Unfortunately, you sometimes have to prioritise the long run over the here and now.
You'll get there in the end.
Still don't get it. So all people who don't live with their parents don't live at home? I think you'll find that unless they're homeless, they do.
Are you being purposely obtuse on the pedantic point of the word, or do you genuinely not understand the very simple and otherwise fully known and appreciated colloquial term to 'live at home'?
Quote: Aaron @ October 19 2012, 12:25 AM BSTAre you being purposely obtuse on the pedantic point of the word, or do you genuinely not understand the very simple and otherwise fully known and appreciated colloquial term to 'live at home'?
Of course I get what you're all trying to say but I don't agree with that term, it's always been wrong and stupid looking. It doesn't make any sense, look:
PC: Okay, I'm arresting you on suspicion of not being funny, what's your home address?
YOUNG PERSON: That's blah blah...
PC: Well we've checked that out, it appears you're lying, so you'd better come with us.
YOUNG PERSON: That's mumsie's address, my home address, but I don't live at home, my home is somewhere else, but I'm young and say things that don't make sense so I don't really know where home is you see.
PC: Look lad are you being funny?
YOUNG PERSON: Er yes, so you can't arrest me can you, yaaboo! BLOWS RASPBERRY AND WALKS AWAY
PC: Oh bollocks!
Absolutely. Home is wherever I will damn well live. The OP should have titled the thread: "How old is too old to still live with your parents?"
Which is still a condescending and dumb thing to ask. Whenever one has completed one's education and has the financial wherewithal to become independent, then one gets a place of one's own, if necessary; however there may be factors/circumstances that prevent this. In some countries and cultures, families are much stronger and stay together, with the old folk being looked after properly, rather than bundled off into a 'retirement' unit to wait for death.
Quote: A is for Adam @ October 17 2012, 10:04 PM BSTand my Amiga 500.
See if you can sell it. I sold mine for $500.
Quote: Kenneth @ October 19 2012, 5:46 AM BSTHome is wherever I will damn well live. The OP should have titled the thread: "How old is too old to still live with your parents?"
Exactly. The term the others are using is in a way the opposite of one of my favourite sayings, 'my home is my castle'. So asking a 50 year old with own home 'at what age did you leave home' is absurdly ridiculous sounding.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ October 19 2012, 7:02 AM BST'at what age did you leave home' is absurdly ridiculous sounding.
I think 'sounds absurd' would be less absurdly ridiculous-sounding.