At what age did you leave home?

[ohiosmith]

I was almost 16. Went on the road selling Look magazine door to door.

[BarenakedLady]

1. 20

Lived on my own for a year or so, then I went back (sort of) next door at my Nana's house for a few years. Moved to another state at 24/25.

[Hugin]

2. Well, home has pretty much always been with me...

But, I know what you mean.

18.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I was 21..........

Was about to be married, and finish college...........

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[ohiosmith]

So, just a couple of years ago.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Oh, yeah!

Just a couple of years ago! :rofl:

[Broken_Hero]

4. 17

moved out, and lived with some friends of mine on a sailboat...

[ncrainbowgrrl]

38. Where'd you sail off to?

Sounds like it could have been a blast!

[bleedingheart]

5. I wanna move back home....

hahahaha

I left when I went to college...rarely came home...then I realized how cushy I had it at home and when I got my second job, I moved back in and paid rent...and my mom made my lunch, my bed and did my laundry....it was great.

Then I got married...moved out and had to do everyone else's laundry, make their beds and make meals...

Now I wanna move in with Mama again...

I love my mom....

[BarenakedLady]

13. Me too!

I want to move back home to my Nana's house, which is empty since she went into a nursing home. Just me and the kidlets, right next door (almost) to my parents. Free childcare! WOOT! A dream.....

[bleedingheart]

17. My mom needs me now and I would love to have her move in

with us...it would be great and multi-generational living is a definite plus...my husband adores my mom too..

[tigereye]

18. I just want to live by myself at some point

marriage and parenthood make me long occasionally for that "room of one's own."

:hi:

on edit, I was 18.

[BarenakedLady]

23. Oh yes

"a room of one's own" sounds lovely....*sigh*

[tigereye]

25. when I read the book in college, I didn't understand what it

meant! ;) Now I do.

[Hosnon]

41. Moms are the best! nt.

[eyesroll]

6. 17 for college, 21 for good.

I didn't live alone until 29, though.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

8. I was 22 when I left the booming metropolis of El Dorado for Wichita

In December 1984. Then I moved back in with Mom to pay off some bills in March 1986 - she was diagnosed with terminal cancer the next month, and I was with her until her death the following January. Moved back to Wichita in March 1987 and have been on my own (or married) ever since.

[azmouse]

9. 22 and I was so ready to go.

That was when I finally got a job that paid enough for me to live on my own.

[plcdude]

10. 17

and came back one summer and that was it.

[huskerlaw]

11. 18 for college

out of the house entirely by 20. Halfway across the country at 27.

[Ariana Celeste]

12. 18 pretty much the day of my bday

stupid decision on my part

[Kutjara]

14. 14.

Begged my psychotic parents to send me to boarding school from the age of 10. They finally did when I was 14 and I never lived under their roof again.

[Sequoia]

22. That's a little sad.

I was in a boarding school but I didn't want to be. So for me it was 8 years old but then lived at home in the 11th and 12th grade. That was it.

[tigereye]

26. I have never understood the boarding school thing

I could never do that with my kid.

[MrCoffee]

15. 15

i fought back, packed a backpack, and that was all she wrote.

[crim son]

16. I left for a year at sixteen,

returned for eight months and then went to college. I've never lived at home since and wouldn't want to although my parents are great.

[skygazer]

19. 15

Went back briefly and left for good at 17.

[Omphaloskepsis]

20. I was 15 and my mom was insane..

One day we had a fight and I went to my room and put some clothes in a black garbage bag. I walked out the door and never looked backed.

I called my sister and she bought me a bus ticket to get to her house.

[trackfan]

21. 27

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

24. 17....well almost 18

joined the Marines.......... hey I was young and dumb! :)

[Redstone]

27. 16.

Redstone

[achtung_circus]

28. 22

I graduated University, worked a couple of months to get a grubstake and moved to Alberta from Toronto. It was the place to be in 1978. My mother drove me to the airport and promised not to cry. She did, though.

My parents scraped $600 together to send me off.

They always said that you need to give your children 2 things, roots and wings.

[LaraMN]

29. 18

(When I went off to college)

[LaurenG]

30. 15

It wasn't good there.:shrug: :hi:

[Taverner]

31. 22 - I boarded a plane to Bangkok, Thailand for the Peace Corps

Whoa - hard to believe that was over 10 years ago

[ThomCat]

32. "home" stopped being home when I was around 14.

I left when I was 18 and never looked back.

[KG]

33. 38. my mom moved to a house with no basement

:(

[ikojo]

34. I went to college at 18, not intending to leave

home. Three weeks into my freshman year my mom calls me at school to tell me she and her husband were moving to Texas. It was not an option for me to go there during breaks because they didn't have the room.

I was not at all prepared to be totally on my own.

[HEyHEY]

35. 20

[LostinVA]

36. 17 -- I went off to college

[RetroLounge]

37. Kicked out when I was about 19 or 20

:shrug:

RL

[JackBeck]

39. I still live there.

This is freerepublic, right?

J/K. 18 when I went to school and 20 when I got my first apartment. Ahh, summers away from home were priceless.

[Hosnon]

40. 18 for college...I haven't ever had my own place in my home town though so my mom's house

is still where I go back to.

[SPKrazy]

42. 18 Years Old

then a brief return when I got kicked out of the fraternity I lived in (don't ask me why I was in a frat, it wasn't my scene obviously and they knew it)

But on my own ever since.

[Ekirh]

43. 22. . .

But I still live with family....... have yet to venture out on my own.....

Have no clue when I finally will "sighs".

[qnr]

44. easier to say when I was there. 9-11 n/t

[Dastard Stepchild]

45. 28!

We're Sicilian... you stay living with your wonderful parents forevah. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

46. 19 for university.

Not sure when I'll be leaving home for good.

[Samurai_Writer]

47. 18, but then came back when I was 24

I was a single parent and lived on my own until I was 24. Then my parents offered for me and my son to move back in, if I wanted to go to school. I knew I would never get another chance to go to college. I moved back in, and got two bachelor degrees in 3 1/2 years. Graduated when I was 27 and was out for good then.

[Bullwinkle925]

48. I was 19.

My daughter was 28 when she left. Guess I made it too comfy to leave?

[reyd reid reed]

49. I was 17.

I'd just graduated from high school and had a job at Der Wienershnitzel and I thought I had the world by the balls.

Biggest mistake of my life.

:shrug:

[sarge43]

50. Nineteen

Enlisted in the AF.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

51. 19, by special invitation ...

... a letter of greetings from Prez LBJ.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

59. Fucking ouch.

:( :(

[NC_Nurse]

60. Welcome to DU!

Love your screen name! I haven't seen a Firesign Theater reference in a long time.
:hi:

[GenDem]

52. 18, pregnant, and newly wed.

Been married to the same guy going on almost 30 years now.

[seemunkee]

53. 22

I commuted to college and it was just my mom and I so it was a comfortable situation. I moved in with my girlfriend, now wife, when she graduated and we've been together since.

[NMDemDist2]

54. 16 years and one day

and never looked back

[Bzzzz]

55. 17...

pregnant and ignorant...:shrug:

[Montauk6]

56. 30, it's also when I left my small metro Detroit suburb for the Apple

[WritingIsMyReligion]

57. Haven't done it yet.

Though la mere will be pushing me out the door eagerly when the time comes. :P

[bridgit]

58. 15, i was legally emancipated due to living conditions at home...

and yes...it is not easy living on your own

[SPKrazy]

63. Wow, That Is Tough

I'm sorry you had it so hard.

I hope that things have gotten better for you!

I suspect you are a tough person to have survived that.

I also really enjoy your posts!

:hug:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

61. 18

I forced myself to complete HS (free rent) then two months later I went to the "other" family.

BTW
Too this day I wish I had tried harder in school, because it definitely hurts choices of jobs.;(

[Rabrrrrrr]

62. Mentally, about age 14. Physically, sort of 18 (college) and really at 23

(after I graduated college).

[fudge stripe cookays]

64. Which time?

I tried at least 3 times to get out and be fully independent, and just couldn't.

Ended up moving home again. Once at 21, once at 22, once at 26, once at 32. After 32, I finally made enough to support myself and get away from my mother. And I've never looked back!

[Pushed To The Left]

65. Well, I'll be 34 in January...

and I don't know yet! I'm one of those people that many Americans love to hate, a middle-aged man who lives at home. Many talk radio hosts, including some liberals, have made people like me targets of their hatred, using entire hours for the topic of what horrible losers we are as ignorant callers chime in to spread hateful and untrue stereotypes. It feels pretty lousy when people from both sides of the political spectrum get on the air and dish out ridicule to a group of people just because of where they live. In my case, and in a lot of cases, it is due to economics. We work hard, but what we make isn't enough to afford rent, even though I do pay a relatively small rent every month. I did get a pretty good raise this year where I work, and I know I'll be in much better economic shape when I break into IT (Went to a job fair today and I'm feeling positive about it!). I have my Bachelor's Degree now, so that should open a few doors that were previously closed.

[femmocrat]

66. 17. Went to college and never looked back.

I got married while I was in college, so I never lived at home again.

[S n o w b a l l]

67. 16

a mutual agreement between my parents and I when they threw a fit about my boyfriend's skin color. Went to live with my 20 yo brother, hitchhiked to school & took night classes to graduate high school early and had my own apartment with a g/f at 17.

[Blue_In_AK]

68. 19

[youthere]

69. 18