Do you still live at home?

Do you still live at home? I still live at home.

@pero2008: did you mean to ask if we still lived at our parents house?

Yes. I do still live at home. I live at my grandma's home.

Yeah I guess so. I still live in the same house I was raised in. Although my family lives about 15 minutes away now.

Yes I live at home. No I don't live at my parents home because I am not a leech or a child.

@trustygamer:

Which category does college student fall into?

Fair enough, up to about age 23/24 is acceptable presuming that the person in question is indeed a college student. This is still somewhat being a leech however.

i live in my house, went to uni very late in life 7 years ago (im 30 now), so i moved out when i was 23. then when uni finished, I rented a place. I changed jobs to move back to my hometown and moved back into parents for a year to start saving money to buy. Then I got made redundant and got a new job. I was on a 6 month probation at my new job. So the original plan was delayed by that 6 months. Add on three months for the house buying process to be complete (apparantly in USA its all done on the same day as the offer, is that correct? in the uk it can take up to a year depending on the chain). and then moved into my new house two weeks before my 30th birthday. So to summarise, moved out at 23, moved back in at 28 due to job and to get saving, then bought my own house at 29.

TL:DR: Yes i have my own house. no i dont live with my parents

Home is wherever you live, by definition, so yes.

-Byshop

I live in my home...

Yes.

I live in a house

28 still living with my parents. Honestly I'll probably stays until my parents kick me out or go back to their home country.

Here in Spain college students rarely leave home, because the universities are all public and more or less the same everywhere (the exception being Barcelona and Madrid universities, that have a bit more recognition), so there's no incentives to leave home really. Yeah I still live with my parents near Barcelona, and study in Barcelona, so there's no point not living with them. It's the same with every last one of my friends here too.

All this'll change with the Master's though.

Yep same here. Why would I leave my home considering my university is only a 20-minute bus ride away? :P

I'll be taking Masters classes in the same university(and probably in their secondary grounds which are even closer to my home) so I'll be staying here for at least 2 more years.

i live in the basement

yes, i live in my home.

Yeah, I meant do you still live with your parents. That's what I get for posting at 2 am lol.

Well i don't live in a trash can, so yes i live at home !

Yes and no.

I´m married and I have my own home, so that´s "no"; because my dog and cat hospital is installed in my parents home I spend a good part of my day at my parents home ( sometimes I even have to stay several days a week ) so that´s "yes".

@trustygamer: That seems a little extreme. I'd hate to be considered a leech, considering I work a full time job, go to school, and help with things financially. To each their own I guess though haha.

Problem for some is that there is no way possible to get acceptable grades while renting a place. Most places in my city that I can rent costs more than the monthly student loan is. My current timeplan at university makes it quite difficult to work more than 2 days a week, unless I want to work way past midnight.

Yes I live at home. I bought it....why wouldn't I live there?

No I don't. I need to study aboard so can't stay live at home. Actually, I miss my home :-)

I live in the street. Its fun.

I live with my parents and pay them rent. I do this because I am disabled (Mentally) and if I still could work you're damn right I'd have my own place I was in management.

I don't think anyone who lives with their folks or looks after them should be considered a "Leech" especially if your giving them almost half your income and buying groceries.

Sometimes we can't stand on our own. I guess I could be someones roomate but I don't trust strangers.

Yeah I'm probably just negative because I had to do it all on my own and it was a huge struggle.

I live in Nirvana.

It is with my deepest regret that the answer to this question remains yes. Although leaving your parents' house as an unmarried man is unheard of around here, I - much to the dismay of my parents - wanted to change residence since I turned 17. In fact, most people here don't leave their parents' house at all unless there are irreconcilable disputes of tectonic proportions. Otherwise, they get married in-house and one extended family after another springs into existence.

Nevertheless, I'm still struggling to cut loose and establish complete autonomy.

Currently making the transition of moving from parents house to boyfriends house as a short term arrangement

Don't plan on staying with your boyfriend long term? :D

Yep I'm still here despite my great eagerness to live independently. I just can't have the adequate freedom of thought here even though I try.

@da_illest101:

lol....I never thought I would leave home because I was cool with my folks, I always had small jobs to help out with bills and I kept my noise FAIRLY clean as a kid!

BUT I lucked up and got a good paying job and decided to see how well I could do on my own.

My parents where a little shocked and told me that if I had any problems I could always come back.

25yrs later, I haven't looked back( I was 21 at the time)

What if the person living at home is taking care of an elderly parent? Is that person a leech?

My grandmother's cousin is in her 60s or 70s and lives at home with her mother. On the other side of my family my aunt and her husband live with my grandmother in her house.

no

Stop with the stupid answers, you knew what he ment.

I lived at my parents untill 28, moved out got my own house a few months ago.

Wouldnt say i was a leech i have a full time job and paid my way while living with parents.

@LexLas said:

@pero2008 said:

Do you still live at home? I still live at home.

Well i don't live in a trash can, so yes i live at home !

"I'm the poorest motherfucker on sesame street" ... From the Dave Chapelle skit, right?

The idea that people have to or should move out of their parents home after a certain age seems a bit silly - and can often be rude and demeaning - to me. The way I see it, unless a person gets married and starts a family of his own or has to move away in order to get a job, moving out of his parents' home just because he is a certain age and is "supposed to" move out sounds wasteful to me. Renting a place or paying a mortgage is expensive, so if a person just stays at home and avoids that unnecessary expense he can put the money saved towards wiser ends, such as saving, paying down his own debt (student loans, etc.) or helping his parents with household chores and expenses. Plus with rent, you pay rent for all those months and years, and at the end you don't own anything, so you're paying out a lot of money for a shelter that is only temporary. If you can avoid renting, why rent? Plus humans are by and large social creatures, and its not really good for someone to live alone, so its best to live with one's family.

The mindset also seems to be a bit of a cultural thing in the U.S. Anglos may buy into this idea, but it seems to me that most of the Italian-Americans I know typically don't expect people to move out once they reach a certain age, in fact they would prefer it if the kids stayed home and weren't in a hurry to grow up.

Used to live AT home now im IN home...
I think it's more convenient no need of an umberella.

@whipassmt: Sorry you must have missed my response earlier, I was stating that it is not wrong or "leeching" as I put it. I just did it all myself with absolutely no support so it's tough for me to not be bitter when I see how many options other people have/had.

I live under a rock and I just resurfaced after 10 years...can someone tell me what this Tweeter thing is?

I live in my apartment with my fiancee and our cat.

I wished I still lived with my parents

hate bills..

I moved out in my early twenties, 15 years ago

I moved out of my parents when I was around 22 I think. Got my own place at first and later moved to a bigger place with my Mrs which we're still at now.

Totally agree, that mentality of moving out at a certain age is only relative here in the U.S! The cost of doing what EVERYONE else is doing, instead of doing what's right for YOU has gotten alot of us in trouble. As I said in an earlier post, my parents where cool with me because I was a fairly productive kid, but an opportunity arouse and I was able to make it work for me.

But that's not the case for everyone. So if staying at home with your folks is the best option for the individual, you should do what's best for you.

[I forgot about this thread] I moved to a new house like about 3 months ago and it's really nice. Love it, my daughter has now a new room with more space and the master bed room size is what I need so that my baby mama can get more space in the house.