<p>As soon as your kicked out . </p>
<p>I’ve had to work full time and get financial aid to stay afloat. The real world isn’t all that fun.</p>
<p>As soon as your kicked out . </p>
<p>I’ve had to work full time and get financial aid to stay afloat. The real world isn’t all that fun.</p>
<p>Momma-Three:</p>
<p>I disagree 100%. I plan on moving back home to live with my mother. Why? It will help us save money. 100k household makes more sense than splitting it 50/50 just for the sake of “saving face.” With my mom going through a divorce, she’ll need me a lot to help her out. </p>
<p>And besides. She wants to be able to see her grandchildren everyday (yes, I plan to stay there that long). My next door neighbor lives with her mom with her son and husband. </p>
<p>Not everyone subscribes to the narrow nuclear family. In fact, most European kids and even Asian kids don’t leave the household until they are married.</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s really any particular right age. As many have said, it really depends on the person. As for me, I still technically live at home during the summer and breaks, although I pay for my own college and most of my expenses, though my parents do feed me during breaks and buy me presents for holidays. </p>
<p>I think I’m going to basically have to “launch” for graduate school because my parents do not live near to a school that offers the graduate program I am planning to pursue. I’m really scared about it though because I don’t see how I’ll possibly afford it unless I get some sort of scholarship/assistantship, so I might have to live with my parents and save up for a while before graduate school is feasible. Ideally my boyfriend will have a job within reasonable distance of my graduate school and we’ll be able to get an apartment together, but thinking of all of the logistics of actually trying to get a job/grad school in the same geographic location in this day and age, it doesn’t seem so likely. :(</p>
<p>This all depends on culture, I have an Italian buddy who I know will move home after college and live with his mother till he is married (after all who is going to cook for him? he would starve.)</p>
<p>I personally could never move home, I went home the summer of my Freshman year and stayed in my old room, by the end of week one I was living in Dad’s pop up camper in the driveway. </p>
<p>I think it all depends on family dynamic.</p>
<p>Depends on the situation. I’m 19 and still living with my mother. I lived on campus this past year and plan to Maybe do it again for a semester this year. In my junior year I wanna get an apartment with a few friends and if all goes well I might just move out completely then. I think that everyone should get the experience of living on their own for a while in college.</p>
<p>My friend Jenny is 19 and has moved out for good. She shares an apartment with 3 friends and has a job along with her classes. Another of my friends plans to move out within a years time and my best friend is looking for an apartment now, as his parents are going to move out of the state.</p>
<p>It all depends on your income and what your relationship with your parents is. In this economy you might move out for a while and then end up moving back in after you graduate. It all depends. For me, I plan to be fully moved out and sharing a place with some friends by the time I graduate and I plan to go to grad school out of state so that’ll take me even farther and I might get a place by myself when that time comes.</p>
<p>ThePrincessBride,</p>
<p>I completely agree with you! I was going to say the same thing. I’m starting college in the Fall but my University is only 30minutes away (on train) so I’ll be commuting for four years. Its way cheaper for me plus it’s part of the culture. I’m Hispanic and we ALWAYS stay with our families. I’ve lived here all my life but I still find the American culture strange. The parents want to send their kids off at 18 and the kids are eagerly leaving. </p>
<p>I know how to cook and clean plus I have been paying most of my bills from a young age like phone, gas, insurance and car so I know how to support myself. I just choose to stay with my parents. In Peru where I’m from, EVERYONE stays with their family. Even when you get married, your parents come to live with you. But here a lot of my friends from school think its weird that I actually want to stay with my family. So I guess it’s just your relationship with your family and your culture?</p>
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<p>That’s not true. I’m Hispanic and I’m moving out in August (age 20) lol. </p>
<p>momma-three, naturally we are supposed to stay with our families as long as possible. Even if it might seem “strange” it is financially not possible for the VAST majority of 18 year olds to move out. This is much different than when our parents were 18. </p>
<p>collegexbound, staying with parents has its pros and cons. When I stayed with a host family down in Costa Rica, I lived in a multigenerational house and it definitely had its pros and cons, but they are not as relevant as they are in America. For example, many Latina women don’t have jobs when they become grandparents and therefore stay home to take care of the grandkids while her kids work. That doesn’t really work in America that well (having someone as a stay at home grandparent, especially at the young ages that many Latina women become grandmothers at) anymore and therefore many Hispanic people ARE leaving (especially 2nd generation and beyond like me) because home doesn’t have many pros for them. </p>
<p>I DO think that young adults need to get out and explore the world at some point. Staying with your parents is the safe thing to do and I think that kids need to get out and find themselves without the eye of their parents on them. If they want to come back home at some point, that’s fine. I will probably eventually have to have my parents move back in with me because they’re both in rather poor health and I will NOT put them in a nursing home.</p>
<p>I’m 20 and I live with my parents. I go to a nearby university where it’s easy to commute, and I don’t see the point in working a minimum wage job (which is probably the best I could do right now) so I can afford to pay rent/bills when I can live with my parents for free. </p>
<p>I’m the only person my age I know living with their parents, but most of them are not self-sustaining. Their parents pay for their apartments, food, tuition, all that. They aren’t working. Additionally, I don’t [think I] know anyone paying their tuition at all.</p>
<p>I guess maybe that’s the case for some. But I live in Miami where it’s heavily populated by Hispanics. All my friends are second generation Hispanics and I don’t know one person in my graduating class that is going off to college and leaving their family. Everyone is commuting to FIU, UM or a community college. Down here everyone is very connected with their culture and part of it is to stay with your family. </p>
<p>For me, staying with my parents has more pros than cons. I live the same life as every other college freshmen. At the end of the day the only difference is that my friends live in a dorm and I go back home to my parents. Even though my friends live “on their own” at the dorm they are still 100% financially dependent of their parents. My parents have done a lot for me and I don’t feel right just leaving them as soon as I turn 18. Once I graduate college and have a good paying job, then I will. But for right now, I’m happy how things are.</p>
<p>In Ecuador, where my mother’s family is from it is more customary for girls to stay with their parents until they get married. My mother did. In fact, our great aunt still lives with us. She never married, and my great grandfather (her father) put a down payment on the house where my family still lives (my father was the one who finished paying off the mortgage) before he died. My mother never moved out even after she got married (My father had been living in her family’s home for a year or two), but her mother died before they bought the new house.
However I was not really raised with Ecuadorian traditions, so this is not in anyway an expectation for me or my sister.
I also go to school more than 200 miles away. I still call their house home though, and I probably will no matter what my actual location is for some time.</p>