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Today 52% of young adults from 18 to 29 are still living with their parents. At what age did you move out on your own?
4:03 PM · Mar 22, 2021·SmarterQueue
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You mean for the LAST time?
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One time I went back to live with them and tried to open the back door but it was locked. I pulled out my key and found the locks had been changed. So I goes to the front door and start banging on it when this guy I have never seen before sticks a gun in my face and asks me WTF I was doing. I ask him what he is doing in My parents house?
Seems they sold it a few months before and moved out of state and neglected to inform me.
Bastards.
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Seems they sold it a few months before and moved out of state and neglected to inform me.
Bastards.
yeah... I hate it when that happens...
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yeah... I hate it when that happens...
Tell me about it. :shrug:
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Fess up @Wingnut she didn't let you know her ol man called in sick that day.
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Fess up @Wingnut she didn't let you know her ol man called in sick that day.
That was a week later...... :pop41:
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I grew up in the Central Valley, a bit WNW of Sacramento. Where I went to college was in Phoenix, something like 800 miles away. I went straight out of high school, had a job briefly in Scottsdale, and then moved to Silicon Valley for a job in Palo Alto. We were usually on good terms, though after I got married and started having kids we had some "interesting" times.
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Joined the Navy at 18, left my parents home permanently but had been in and out of their home for a number of years.
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Left there at 20, stopped doing my laundry there at 28.
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I moved back in with my mom after getting out of the Navy. Simple questions in the morning before she left for work, like "what would you like for dinner", just drove me crazy. How the hell did I know where I was gunna be around dinnertime. Luckily my lil Sis just bought a house, so I bought their trailer from them. That Thanksgiving, there was a silence during the pig-out and everyone was looking at me. No tellin what it was that came out of my foul Navy mouth.
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I moved out just after turning 19, I met and got engaged to my future wife and my parents were very against it, my mother told me one of the reasons was that I was so young and had never lived out on my own. I rented an apartment and moved out right after she said that, I think it shocked her especially as I was the youngest and first to go.
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After college. I was told in May to be out by Labor Day. My mom gave me some of her old furniture and bought new, and my folks gave me the security deposit as a graduation gift.
I more than ready. I had to work two jobs until my mid thirties to pay for this but I cherished my independence and living by myself with our roommates
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My 17th birthday,when I enlisted in the US Army.
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@wiseconnector
Today 52% of young adults from 18 to 29 are still living with their parents.
I think that may be a little misleading because many of the youngest are still living at home while going to college or trade school,and no doubt some of the older ones had to move back home when they lost their jobs due to cheap Chinese imports and the Dims and their RINO co-conspirators selling out our industry to the Chinese.
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One time I went back to live with them and tried to open the back door but it was locked. I pulled out my key and found the locks had been changed. So I goes to the front door and start banging on it when this guy I have never seen before sticks a gun in my face and asks me WTF I was doing. I ask him what he is doing in My parents house?
Seems they sold it a few months before and moved out of state and neglected to inform me.
Bastards.
@Wingnut
I had a friend in basic I met up with again at Bragg tell me the same thing happened to him.
It was slightly different for me. When I got home after basic training,it was like I had never existed. Every magazine and book I had collected had been thrown away,and every piece of civilian clothing I had left in my closet had been given to Good Will. It was like I had never existed. They didn't even keep any of my school photos or year books. Tossed it all.
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@Wingnut
I had a friend in basic I met up with again at Bragg tell me the same thing happened to him.
It was slightly different for me. When I got home after basic training,it was like I had never existed. Every magazine and book I had collected had been thrown away,and every piece of civilian clothing I had left in my closet had been given to Good Will. It was like I had never existed. They didn't even keep any of my school photos or year books. Tossed it all.
That sucks.
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Between 17 and 18. When I got home after basic training everything of value that I had owned had been hocked by my drug-soaked younger brother and sister.
And that was just the beginning.
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@Wingnut
I had a friend in basic I met up with again at Bragg tell me the same thing happened to him.
It was slightly different for me. When I got home after basic training,it was like I had never existed. Every magazine and book I had collected had been thrown away,and every piece of civilian clothing I had left in my closet had been given to Good Will. It was like I had never existed. They didn't even keep any of my school photos or year books. Tossed it all.
Jeez thats a real confidence booster.
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Jeez thats a real confidence booster.
@skeeter
Well,it was my fault for not expecting it. They started telling me I had better do good in school around the time I was in the 3rd grade because when I turned 18 I would need to find a place to live because I wouldn't be allowed to stay with them.
It ain't like I wasn't warned.
They weren't my birth parents,anyhow. They were just a couple that liked children,and I had already taught myself to read and write by the time I started elementary school,so I wasn't very child-like to them. They both loved and doted on little children,but by the time you started to mature,they lost interest and wanted another baby to raise.
Especially my father,who had to quit school in the 3rd grade and go to work at a shipbuilders to help his mother feed and support his 6 brothers and sisters. He would barely write his name,and couldn't read at all,and having to ask me to read the newspaper to him or tell him what the news people on tv were talking about must have been humiliating. He was NOT stupid,but he was illiterate,and this make him think he was stupid.
My mother did a little better. She managed to make it through the 5th grade before both her parents died and she had to quit school and go to work.
Still,fair is fair,and it's not like I didn't have any warning. In MY defense,that was the only family I had ever lived with,so what did I know about families?
Neither one of them ever knew or expected anything but hard times their whole lives.
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Jeez thats a real confidence booster.
@skeeter
I didn't find out until years later what was behind that. They got rid of all my stuff the same week I left for basic training because they were trying to find another baby to take care of and needed the room for the new baby and all the stuff he or she may need. Unfortunately for them,the county turned them down because of age,health conditions,and income.
They were good people,though. They were just doing the best they could do with what they had to work with. I don't think either one of them caught an actual break their entire lives.
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In MY defense,that was the only family I had ever lived with,so what did I know about families?
You got that right. Growing up, there was a huge disconnect between television families and reality. It is hard learning how to be a good father when you were never provided an example of one.
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@skeeter
I didn't find out until years later what was behind that. They got rid of all my stuff the same week I left for basic training because they were trying to find another baby to take care of and needed the room for the new baby and all the stuff he or she may need. Unfortunately for them,the county turned them down because of age,health conditions,and income.
They were good people,though. They were just doing the best they could do with what they had to work with. I don't think either one of them caught an actual break their entire lives.
Still it seems they had a bit of a blind spot where human nature is concerned. A young person's need for belonging doesn't shut off at age 18.
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I moved out off and on for a few years during high school and college, went to work for an advertising agency and they offered me an unbelievable position for my age, but I wasn't ready to settle down and moved to Alaska for a couple of years, came back, and met my husband @ the ripe old age of 24 ... we'll be married 39 years (God willing) this December! 30 of those years we've lived in FL. Collectively we have 3 children, 6 grandchildren, and 1 great grandchild and multiple grandpuppies.
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@mystery-ak
@Gefn
From the age I could make a plan, I knew I was going to a college/university. After finishing high school, during that summer, went to a Jr. College about 15 miles from house; a school bus would pick me up in front of house and go to Kilgore, Texas where Jr. College was, then bring me home after the two classes - English and Math (Trig). In the fall, went to a university, lived in a dorm, but came home for holidays. I never lived full time at home after I started at the university.
Ladies, my Mother made all my clothes until I graduated high school which was in the east Texas oilfield. Then, in summer before I left for the university, parents took me to Dallas, Texas, to Sanger-Harris department store. We went to ladies clothing and my parents said buy anything I wanted. I picked out numerous clothes to wear at the university - my first real "store bought" clothes. Bought a for winter long coat, sort of a muted gold color and wore that coat for many years.
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Still it seems they had a bit of a blind spot where human nature is concerned. A young person's need for belonging doesn't shut off at age 18.
@skeeter
How were THEY supposed to know that,when my father was forced to quit school in the 3rd grade and go to work as a laborer in a shipyard by his drunken mother,who took all his money each payday. For HIM,that was normal because it was all he knew.
As for my mother,at age 8,she and her 6 year old sister were "given" to a one-legged Civil War veteran because their parents died in the flue epidemic of 1918,and there was no such thing as a public welfare system for children back then. This was arranged by the local Ku Klux Klan,who at THAT time,was the only government working for white people. The official government were all carpetbaggers whose only concern was to steal and sell everything in sight. The deal was they were to cook,clean,and keep him company,and in exchange,he was supposed to keep them fed,housed,and sent to school each day in clothing appropriate for little girls their age. BTW,I am living on that land right now. I bought it in 1980.
My mother was basically forced to marry a disabled WW-1 vet when she was 12 or 13 because the Civil War vet died,and she and her little sister needed a place to live. He was a mean drunk,and she ended up divorcing him and marrying my father several years later.
THIS was the world they both grew up in. It was all they knew.
BTW,this sort of thing was VERY common back in the pre-Social Security days. If you were a child and your parents died,your sole source of income also died.
In the late 1800's there were passenger trains full of orphans leaving out of places like NYC to go to rural farm states so the children would have a place to live and work as farm laborers. This usually worked out for the kids because they had a place to live,plenty to eat,and grew up learning a useful trade.
Life ain't always pretty,but it is what it is.
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Lol, I am the only one to click "I'm still there".... Moved out after college like most do now days... well I lived at college but still had roots at home. I took on an old home to repair it and started dating the wife and mostly lived in the house. It was pretty rough, with limited electrical and water. Married and still had repair to do to the house, but we managed. Later, decades later mom got sick and she bought the house next to ours (sold her house) and moved where we could keep an eye on her. 10 good years and one bad year (lost mom) and suddenly we had two houses. Wife liked mom's house, we live there to this day... So I still live in mom's house basically and keep the other one for storage (or for the kids if they decide to move back home).
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@mystery-ak
@Gefn
From the age I could make a plan, I knew I was going to a college/university. After finishing high school, during that summer, went to a Jr. College about 15 miles from house; a school bus would pick me up in front of house and go to Kilgore, Texas where Jr. College was, then bring me home after the two classes - English and Math (Trig). In the fall, went to a university, lived in a dorm, but came home for holidays. I never lived full time at home after I started at the university.
Ladies, my Mother made all my clothes until I graduated high school which was in the east Texas oilfield. Then, in summer before I left for the university, parents took me to Dallas, Texas, to Sanger-Harris department store. We went to ladies clothing and my parents said buy anything I wanted. I picked out numerous clothes to wear at the university - my first real "store bought" clothes. Bought a for winter long coat, sort of a muted gold color and wore that coat for many years.
@Victoria33
I never truly thought about college, it was just something always assumed I’d go.
I hated HS, but I actually thrived at college. I learned my HS was so insular that my weirdness wasn’t appreciated but in college it was, and I had friends for the first time in my life, and real happiness.
@libertybele not having children was always a big deal and the cause of a lot of sadness in my life, but when I got to the point of my life when it was biologically impossible to have them, I was grateful I didn’t. I know this sounds terrible but I don’t have the personality or temperament to raise children without a partner, (husband) but I never found the “right†one until I was in my early forties and he was in his fifties.
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Lol, I am the only one to click "I'm still there".... Moved out after college like most do now days... well I lived at college but still had roots at home.
College? I thought you went to Auburn. Where did you go to college?
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Joined the Navy at 18, left my parents home permanently but had been in and out of their home for a number of years.
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