Left to rent with some mates when I was 23, came back for 6 months and then bought my own place when I was 24. Struggled financially for a long time because of mortgage but I'm glad I did it as getting on the property ladder now is a nightmare, especially in London and SE.
Left 13/14 involuntarily, called the toilets opposite Shootershill nick home (as well as the putting green hut in Charlton park). The guy who looked after them gave me a key and I slept in the stores cupboard for a year or so, used to walk up to Shootershill to look at the posh houses and dream of buying one just to be warm, I did 35 years later, wouldn't wish it on 13/14 year olds these days. Still look fondly at the building when I drive past
I left home at 17 but kids now can’t even leave school until they are 18 and are far less socially aware than we were thanks to being stuck in front of computers and games consoles all their spare time . I full expect my kids to be in the house well into their 20’s but 30 is far too long.
What, there's too long to spend in the family home?
All I had to look forward to was being Omagh's version of Norman Bates, and now you've gone and ruined it....
Truthfully.
Moved away for 18 years on going to college. Moved back in, partly to make sure my mother didn't pass on any good stuff to my feckless relatives (and they're all feckless) after my father died, and partly because I got work close to home, not that that lasted for too long (for the last 10 years have been commuting for 3 and a half hours a day to Belfast, 140 mile round trip - living life in the bus lane).
Finally moved out when my bastard brother got the bailiffs in my mother died last year. Busy converting a not terribly ramshackle farmhouse, the location of which ensures that I can truthfully say that I am now over the hill.
Think 30 is pushing it a bit. Don’t understand parents who charge high rent to their own kids though. Surely the less money you charge them the quicker they can save for their own place.
Left at 18 for uni, returned for about 9months after uni and then moved 100miles away to work and afford a house. Now 24 and been in my house for 2 years. Hopefully going to move back nearer to family in another 2 years when I’ve made some money on my house!
Lots of friends who stayed at home are approaching their late 20s and still can not afford to move out.
I moved out when I was 28, was saving for a deposit and waiting for the market to crash. Saved up £65k and moved out when it did crash. Got it for a snip.
Was well worth all of the snide comments from lads at work calling me a "mummies boy", they are still renting and I have 11 years left on a mortgage.
I take it from these responses many of you are a lot older than me. I'm about to leave uni (and I'm very very lucky to have found a job to go straight into). Even in my position there is no way I'm moving out any time soon. My girlfriend is starting a uni course for primary teaching this year. So realistically the earliest I'll move out is 24/25 years old and that's only because I've found myself in a favourable position and will (fingers crossed) have a partner to put money together with to get a place.
Renting is a terrible choice at the moment. These days, especially if living in London, I don't think you should be surprised to see how many people live with their parents still by the age 30, and that's even people with relatively decent jobs.
That being said, in the case in that BBC article the guy is a total scrounger. Getting a minimum wage job really isn't that difficult, but lazy guys like him wont see it as enough so don't even bother. But its a place to start and I'm sure most people's parents would let them stay for a very long time if they pay rent or at least show that they are earning the best living they can at that point in time.
I left home at 17 but kids now can’t even leave school until they are 18 and are far less socially aware than we were thanks to being stuck in front of computers and games consoles all their spare time . I full expect my kids to be in the house well into their 20’s but 30 is far too long.
Yeah I'm sure computers and video games are fully to blame for why children move out so late these days. Not sure how being socially aware enables you to move out?
I’m 25 and living back at parents home at the moment. Currently, trying to buy a house with my fiancée but can’t find anything locally which is good value.
If it wasn’t for living back at home I wouldn’t have been able to save a deposit for a place and would have been renting for rest of my life.
If you are paying your way, and more importantly contributing to the running of the house, then there's nothing wrong with staying until you are in a better position in my opinion. But doing your share is absolutely crucial to this. If you expect your Mum and Dad to run around after you like you are still 10, then you are a bit of an arsehole. Especially if they both work. You should be cutting the lawn, cooking, washing and helping out with everything else in the house if you expect to stay there. Gets you used to the idea of what you will have to do when you do leave home too.
I left at 17 and rented a cheap run down place with my girlfriend, because I wanted freedom. But I know that's not for everybody.
I left home at 17 but kids now can’t even leave school until they are 18 and are far less socially aware than we were thanks to being stuck in front of computers and games consoles all their spare time . I full expect my kids to be in the house well into their 20’s but 30 is far too long.
Yeah I'm sure computers and video games are fully to blame for why children move out so late these days. Not sure how being socially aware enables you to move out?
I left home at 23 but came back 4 years later after I split up from my girlfriend.
Spent another couple of years or so there before buying a place with my now wife.
I think my old man was glad to have me back tbh. His mum had moved in while I was away, was suffering with dementia and used to clash with my mum. He got a midweek drinking partner and told me once I was the only thing keeping him sane!
Left home at 18 and have only stayed for a week or so at a time since. Would hate to live with either of my parents and am personally busting my nuts trying to make sure my son doesn’t have to either.
Cost of rent and mortgage/deposit is so high now I have no idea how anyone on a decent but normal salary could afford to move out unless they did absolutely nothing other than save for 10 years.
I left home at 21 and rented with my girlfriend. She became my wife, we bought a flat and then a 3 bed semi in Petts Wood. Looking back it was a doddle in the ‘80s. Our house cost us about 3 times our combined income. We had normal jobs that paid average money and we were able to buy and have all the normal trappings of life. My son and his girlfriend are better educated than my wife and I have good jobs And would have to pay at least 10 times their combined salaries to afford a the same semi we bought. It ain’t going to happen, my boy will call the house we all live in, home for a long time to come. It doesn’t bother me him living us but his prospects of owning a place of his own will probably come down to his grandparents popping their clogs or worse wait for me and the wife to depart.
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What an arse though, he's 30 not 13.
I bought my first place when I was 23....just won't happen nowadays
I haved lived on my own since i was 17 and never brought a place just rented
Still paid my rent though when living with my parents
All I had to look forward to was being Omagh's version of Norman Bates, and now you've gone and ruined it....
Truthfully.
Moved away for 18 years on going to college. Moved back in, partly to make sure my mother didn't pass on any good stuff to my feckless relatives (and they're all feckless) after my father died, and partly because I got work close to home, not that that lasted for too long (for the last 10 years have been commuting for 3 and a half hours a day to Belfast, 140 mile round trip - living life in the bus lane).
Finally moved out when
my bastard brother got the bailiffs inmy mother died last year. Busy converting a not terribly ramshackle farmhouse, the location of which ensures that I can truthfully say that I am now over the hill.ARE YOU READING THIS, IDLE JR?
Did get married, divorced (not of my own doing) and re-married again (yes......different girl) in those 9 years though.
If you don’t get financial help it’s a slog but can certainly be achieved with discipline, esp if with a partner.
Lots of friends who stayed at home are approaching their late 20s and still can not afford to move out.
Was well worth all of the snide comments from lads at work calling me a "mummies boy", they are still renting and I have 11 years left on a mortgage.
I say move out when its right for you!
I did pay rent to my parents.
Renting is a terrible choice at the moment. These days, especially if living in London, I don't think you should be surprised to see how many people live with their parents still by the age 30, and that's even people with relatively decent jobs.
That being said, in the case in that BBC article the guy is a total scrounger. Getting a minimum wage job really isn't that difficult, but lazy guys like him wont see it as enough so don't even bother. But its a place to start and I'm sure most people's parents would let them stay for a very long time if they pay rent or at least show that they are earning the best living they can at that point in time.
If it wasn’t for living back at home I wouldn’t have been able to save a deposit for a place and would have been renting for rest of my life.
Very lucky that this was an option for me.
I left at 17 and rented a cheap run down place with my girlfriend, because I wanted freedom. But I know that's not for everybody.
Spent another couple of years or so there before buying a place with my now wife.
I think my old man was glad to have me back tbh. His mum had moved in while I was away, was suffering with dementia and used to clash with my mum. He got a midweek drinking partner and told me once I was the only thing keeping him sane!
Cost of rent and mortgage/deposit is so high now I have no idea how anyone on a decent but normal salary could afford to move out unless they did absolutely nothing other than save for 10 years.
My son and his girlfriend are better educated than my wife and I have good jobs
And would have to pay at least 10 times their combined salaries to afford a the same semi we bought.
It ain’t going to happen, my boy will call the house we all live in, home for a long time to come. It doesn’t bother me him living us but his prospects of owning a place of his own will probably come down to his grandparents popping their clogs or worse wait for me and the wife to depart.