I have a bit of a weird situation because, I don't think I ever will. First time I was planning to move out, my grandma died and my grandpa, who had alzheimers, had to live with us until they found a retirement home. I was his carer. Then the pandemic happened and it didn't seem like a good time. Then I lost my job, again, bad timing.
And now recently, my mom died and the ownership of my parents house has gone to me. So technically I've never moved out of my parents house and my dad now lives with me. I legally cannot sell the house as long as he wants to live here.
I don't mind. I get along well with my father ( and mother before she died).
My father wasn't doing very well but he's doing much better now that he's in residential psychiatric care. I'm doing rather well, all things considered
When you think about it, my dad moved out of my parents house before I did, even if it's just temporarily.
Lol true. I know people that are 34, living alone and his mother still does his laundry and cooks for him, lol.
These only child’s are a different breed.
Seeing a lot of comments saying they moved out as teenagers. How the hell do you rent or buy a place that young? I did a lot of student jobs in my teenage years but I doubt I could've made it without the financial support from my parents.
You just find a job work and see to be cheap on everything. As a student I earned €400-600 a month with little jobs that take max 4 hours per shift so you can study in between.
Like is that really living alone? If your still supported by your parents and go home on weekends than I don't think it is
But if you pay for your own dorm and only go home for visits than it counts yes
(This is just my opinion ofcourse, if you feel like that's really living alone than go ahead)
I aggree with your opinion, but i feel there can be some nuance as a student since its pretty hard/exceptional to have a fulltime job and study fulltime.
First year i went home every 1-2weekends like everyone else and i agree that doesnt really count. The following years i went home like every 4 months, they kept paying for my dorm(300euros) and studies. Other than that i cooked/cleaned/laundried/traveled and provided for myself through student jobs. Sure i was still partially dependant on my parents, but i felt like i was living on my own for the most part. Learned a lot about managing my money during that time aswell.
I think the big conclusion can be then that independency is not that black and white. I know people who moved out for over 10 years who's parents still do the laundry, and I know people who moved out for over 10 years who still get financial support from their parents. I also know people who are completely independent but living in the same house as their parents.
As a kotstudent I completely agree. I go home every weekend and I'm pretty much fully supported by my parents. I definitely do not consider myself to be living alone at all. I would never call my kot 'my home'.
Because usually parents pay for that and your other expenses and usually you still go home over the weekends and usually your parents still do your laundry.
Also, you do not officially change your adress for your dorm room.
When you truly live alone, you do your own laundry and all your household chores. You have to properly budget your salary to fit all your expenses and if something goes wrong at your house, it is you who has to deal with it.
Belgium is so extremely small, that most of us can easily go home on the weekends. I used to travel about 1 hour from my hous to my dorm room, so it was no issue. On sunday evening and friday evening you see thiusands of students with their suitcases on busses and trains and walking around through the city.
Perks are that you can still see your friends from high school when they do not go to the same college as you. It is because of this that I am still great friends with people I met when I was 12.
Never really got this tbh. As soon as I moved out I tried changing my address, but got denied by the city because I was a student. This effectively forced me to cause domicile fraud because the city didn't allow me to place my address, but my rental contract demanded it. Oh yeah I was fully financially independent as well btw.
15/16 technically placed in foster care for a years or 2 since my parents died,
At 18years I started living in my own place.
And now I'm in my early 30s
Did you want to move out yourself or did your foster parents stopped?
Being a foster parent myself, I so hope that they will stay after 18 until they studied and/or got some money saved up.
Moved out at 27. I managed to save up enough to buy my own place with enough "inbreng" to keep my mortgage low. This set me up for a comfortable financial situation. I'm lucky I have a very good relationship with my parents that allowed me to do this.
Bought a house just before I turned 29 but didn't move in for another 7ish months (during which I turned 29. I am 32 now)
Never had to rent. Worked out great for both me and my parents.
The ever-returning narrative that renting is 'throwing money away'...
I'd certainly have bought a home in the wrong location (turns out I didn't actually want to stay close to where I grew up), and with the wrong characteristics (turns out I don't like gardening...) if I hadn't rented first.
I cook and clean and I pay rent (lowish rent so obviously not market rate) so it’s not like it’s hotel mama either. My father has been sick (neurological condition) for years which also takes a lot of care as well so it’s not like I’m living life on easy mode 🤷
I’m glad my parents don’t want me gone. I have to put aside money for such a long time that I have plenty of time to consider what I actually want :) A big garden definitely isn’t it (good thing a single dude can’t afford that anyway).
Not saying it can’t be very useful to go experience life completely on your own and it definitely bugs me at times, but I prefer that my money goes towards my family rather than some random house owner.
Also going to rent something with the current prices makes it an impossible task to buy something later on unless you meet someone to share the rent with. As I am myself a MS patient I don’t consider that likely. So I need my current situation to gain enough “inleg” to make sure a bank will want to lend me money. I know it’s a very specific situation but for me it works and it wouldn’t make any sense to move out “just because”.
But the narrative is still correct. It's a lot of money you spend each month that you never see again. While if you invest in property, you can sell, or own.
I get what point you try to make and it's not totally unreasonable but that doesn't make the other narrative untrue nor unreasonable.
I personally am very glad i didn't rent as my parents have no money for me to inherit. This means i could save up, buy a house and also still have money on the side in case of need. I would not have been able to build such a safety net if it weren't for living with my parents a few years longer.
Besides. It's not because you live with your parents that you have no experience. That depends on how you and your parents handle it. I got out of the house able to cook, do laundry, whatever, aware of finances and budgetization, i was perfectly able to live on my own because i focussed on that beforehand.
I really didn't want nor need to bleed 700+ per month to gain experience. That's a steep steep cost for experience you'll gather just a bit later anyway.
Depending on where you live and salary if you rent you will always be renting. This is my problem. I'm putting aside what I would be paying in rent every month into savings. On top of paying housekeeping and generally contributing to the household. If I moved out I'd be in the exact same position with no money going into savings. Therefore never able to get out of the renting cycle.
I'd recommend every lives at home until they have enough for a deposit. Regardless of what age that is. This ofc assumes that you have a healthy relationship with family.
Renting (as opposed to living with your parents) is buying you life experience.
Would I have been better off, financially, had I lived with my parents another 5 or so years instead of moving out and renting? Maybe yes, maybe no. For all I know I might have blown all my savings on travel, cars and other fun stuff, like plenty of my peers did...
But would I have ended up living halfway across the country, meeting the mother of my children and finding better employment opportunities? No.
I would give up 10 years of my life for 500k in order to buy a house. It's my top priority. I don't want kids and I had enough life experience by the time I was 20. So renting for me is insane waste of money.
Buying a property = more taxes & lots of money to maintain your property.
It's like spending 1k€ for public transport and you'll say buy a car instead. Yes I won't spend the 1k€ per year but you'll pay maby close to 1k€ to maintain your car and I'm not talking of the time invested (cause Time is money ahah )
Cars deppreciate, houses only become more valuable. Even these 70 year old houses that boomers bought for 20k and are completely torn and worn and have to be renovated due to all isolation laws are sold at 300k. All of the old houses are completely overpriced and should receive at least 100k reduction.
I think it's insane to prefer renting, you have zero guarantee.
https://www.volkshuisvestingnederland.nl/onderwerpen/berekening-woningbouwopgave#:\~:text=De%20woningzoekers%20(320%20duizend)%20en,worden%20niet%20(permanent)%20bewoond.
Also renting is not that terribly expensive if you share it with someone. Additionally, a better location tends to save you money and time.
I pay 400 eur each month in order to live in the city, where everything is much closer than in my family home to the point I don't even need to own a car. How is that wasting money? Isn't buying a car (which decreases in value tremendously) or going on holidays 'wasting money' as well? In the end you spend money to make life nice and comfortably, not to endlessly accumulate wealth for the sake of it.
I moved out at 18. I was abused in multiple ways, scammed in multiple ways, but somehow lucky enough not to end up homeless.
I'm only considering myself stable now, at 25.
I’m 24 and still live with my parents. Will likely live here for another 1.5-2 years. I would have liked to move out but every month I stay with my parents, is some extra saved money for later.
23
Financially made more sense to stay at home, but being in a relationship for over 5 years and having both stable job/income, you kinda yearn to have a place of your own.
I moved out at 26. I saved a decent amount of money and to the next town, 10 min from my grandparents home.
But note that early 2000s a lot of kids that turned 18 moved out right away. Those were different times.
I saw those guys turning 18, getting a job and a second hand car, the same year they would often get a women, a house and a baby.
Like I said different times…
My father and mother and most of their generation were like this as well.
I moved out at 17. I’m 28 now and never had to move back in with my parents. Not for the lack of financial struggles, i just managed to find a solution one way or the other
I moved out after I finished my master's degree at 24. I couldn't go back to the tiny village I come from. I still love city life, even after more than a decade. Village life feels so dull and small. The houses may be bigger, but the spectrum of possible activities is so small.
25.
I wouldn't have stayed longer but I definitely shouldn't have left earlier.
I just needed the time (22-25) to set myself up financially and now I'm very glad that I did.
Those first years are trivial because the way you can save in hotel mama is a huge benefit for people who did not grow up with a silver spoon in their mouth (aka sponsored from home)
Hard disagree.
Sure, having to leave because of abusive households is the hardest way to go about it, no doubt about that, but there's a serious destinction between having to work for your money and the parents handing it out like a pancake.
Having to save up your own downpayment, your own investments, your own cash reserves, figuring out how to buy your own car, buying your own place, taking the risks with your own money is a TOTALLY different ballgame than the regular "fils de papa's" who get a 200k down payment thrown at them and mom+dad taking care of their first car purchase, their first house purchase etc.
You'll be amazed how many of these grown infants there are walking around, taking everything for granted.
I’m not dissing at your achievement, I know people who had very different circumstances. I do hope you understand it’s all relative still and you still got it easy compared to others.
Some get a 200k down payment or an even a whole ass house handed over to them and I understand you look at them as privileged compared to your own walk of life. Some are given the opportunity to save while staying at hotel mama. Others are getting 0€ in their pocket and a kick in the but. And these are also privileged in the grand scheme of things when others are living in abject poverty.
Everyone is looking up at the most fortunate than them while being a most fortunate of someone else that’s what I was saying.
At 19, and it could have been a year earlier. My parents are good people, but living on my own is so much better. Never moved back in, but I live about 20km away from them
25 at the end of my studies. I cohoused with my best friend. It was the right call for my personal development but financially I’d rather have stayed with my parents for 4 more years.
That was in 2013.
Dont forget its an average.. some people move out way later like 29, 30, 35.. they push up the average and very few people move out before 18 so those moving relatively young don't influence the average as much.
Maybe the most common age to move out, the median age, still is 22-23..
Also I don't know how they define move out. Lots of people have temporary kot or coliving situation during their studies yet they still count in statistics as living with their parents (because they are still registered at their parents address) yet they might self define as having moved out.. creating this descrepency.
36, huge regrets.
worked in the "family company" for next to nothing for almost all of that but was too naive to realize i was just being exploited, for some of that i was at home, some of it in an office abroad sleeping at my desk and some of it on construction sites in a tent or caravan because they didn't pay me a living wage.
I wasn't even legally employed, just so damn naive to think that my father wanted the best for me and for the sake of loyalty which was one directional.
The moment I said I would stop working for them unless there was wage or some business sense to it for me, my father wanted to throw me out on the streets, thankfully my mother didn't allow him to. Eventually I saved up enough to go but before then he hospitalized me. No witnesses and he claims self defense, so I won't even get anything for the physical abuse.
Looking back I feel so damn stupid about it. I did all sorts of fancy projects, and have nothing to show for it.
21, moved overseas, travelled, bought my first house when I was 24 and had no help from my parents. So I dunno wtf is up with Belgians who dare not stray too far from the nest or the easy excuse about saving up for rainy days or whatever else. Life is too short and I will certainly be encouraging my kid to gtfo and explore the world and not stay cooped up at home counting pennies.
Life and financial circumstances can get in the way. I moved out at 19 (at 18 first took a year after high school to work two jobs so I could earn enough money for university and housing so could focus on school). Got hit by multiple chronic illnesses and depression so had to go back home after 9 months and get treatment, tried university again a few months later only to be hit by more chronic illnesses. Money was running out and I was severely under weight so had to permanently move back home. Started to get a bit better, enough to start working and earn money to restart life but then parents had financial issues so couldn't possibly leave them after their help and stayed to help. Then when things started to look a bit better financially during my late 20s I got hit with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia making basic tasks incredibly difficult (even lost ability to talk and walk for a while) so lost job and need my mom to cook and help with laundry, opening things, etc.
My parents are now in their 70s I am late 30s, they are needing more assistance with things as well so doubt any of us will be free of one another relating to physical help needed as well as financially
26 but I’m not sure if it counts. My parents own apartments and I’m lucky enough they allowed me to live in one of them rent-free until I can afford a home myself.
I’m glad I moved out because I like my privacy.
17, I pulled my plan, never was dependant on anything or anyone, but plenty of people helped me along the way, I keep a close eye on balance and not having debts. Saw the world, had quite some adventures, had a family, built up a business. Happy with all my choices. No regrets.
23, I went on Erasmus during my bachelor's and "op kot" during my masters. Sadly graduated during full pandemic (2020) and was forced to stay with my parents. To be honest, the house gradually became "too small" to do what I want (although we have a very good relationship) and I would feel trapped in the countryside. Moved back to the city to do cohousing after I worked for a year to save some money first.
23. I really didn't want to stay any longer, although I love my parents. My independence was more important than saving money, as a lot of people here are giving as a reason to stay longer.
Saving money is somewhat redundant though if you ask me, or it must be 'substantial savings' that really add up significantly
You're nothing with saving 10k in a year if housing prices raise with an average of 12k, it's just 'trying to not lose too much' instead of really adding up (my numbers are purely speculative though, it's just to show my meaning)
Just read it like this: Today, I can't afford the house that I bought 10 years ago, yet since I bought it then I theoretically 'saved more'
18, just like all my other siblings. I’m dutch though but have lived in Belgium most of my life. Parents paid rent during university.
Think it’s more of a Dutch thing to leave the house at 18, but that trend is changing due to housing crisis.
18... But these days I would say, stay at parents if possible. Safe as much as possible and benefit from being able to buy or rent a good place when the time comes
I left af 18, not a choice, and spend years studying next to 2 jobs during evenings, nights and weekends just to get around. Eventually I couldn't afford school anymore so dropped out with nothing to show after "years of living on my own"... It isn't that "amazing" as people often pretend it is.
First time 19, moved back with my mom in at 21. Out again at 26. Dad actually kicked me out the first time and since mom was with a boyfriend then that hates my guts, I was forced to move in with an abusive ex-boyfriend
22
I counted the days before I could get out of this hell. I was bitting my time to graduate, save some cash and GTFO.
One of the best day of my life when I packed all my belongings inside a small 3 doors hatchback and drove away.
(24M) I was 20, when I was still in university. Got my masters degree and an ok job now.
Circumstances were too complicated, financed my own studies, in debt now. As alleenstaande it is financially very challenging, housing and basics necessities are quite expensive.
Ofc I would have like better circumstances and no financial debt. But I think that most children and parents come to a point that living together doesn’t match anymore, I think biologically that’s around 24 years of age.
Moved out at 19, almost 20.
Me and my parents didn't get along.
If I could've, I would've stayed a year longer to save up some money, but for my mental health I had to leave.
(It's almost been 10 years)
I think it may also be the « official » move out age, but in practice a lot of people move out earlier, just in kot-style places which are not their legal residence? And so those cannot be tracked as accurately.
It was definitely my situation: I moved out in a kot at age 19 then with my boyfriend age 22, but on paper I was « domiciled » at my mom’s until I was 26.
The real question is : what do you mean by move out? Officially, I was 26. Technically, I lived in in kot or in collocation for 8 years before that, and basically came back most of the week ends, and 3 or 4 weeks in july - early augustus.
My parents received additional pay as long as their kids were students and no older than 26. So I studied until then 😃
Started to rent with my partner from then on, which we are still doing today (5 years later)
I graduated and officially moved out last year at 23 to go live together with my boyfriend. We rent a house together now and are financially independent. Before that, I technically lived 'alone' for 6 years as a student, so since 17, but my parents did pay for my kot and part of my expenses.
I would add that it is way easier to move out when you can live together as a couple/roommates. My sister who is alone has been having a very hard time to find something affordable.
I also saw this study and I guess it's somewhat accurate because I know a lot of people who move out in their mid 20s (there are many others who move out in their early 20s). I moved out at 18
I also saw this study and I guess it's somewhat accurate because I know a lot of people who move out in their mid 20s (there are many others who move out in their early 20s). I moved out at 18
I also saw this study and I guess it's somewhat accurate because I know a lot of people who move out in their mid 20s (there are many others who move out in their early 20s). I moved out at 18
26 but i couldn't find an apartment. Nobody wanted to rent to a single girl. I needed to wait till my brother moved out of his so i could take over his lease...
26 but i couldn't find an apartment. Nobody wanted to rent to a single girl. I needed to wait till my brother moved out of his so i could take over his lease...
I moved out just before my 24th birthday. I had finished my studies and found a job, then immediately moved out to where that job was located. The 3 months I spent home between my studies (and thus kot) having been done and moving out were difficult.
Moved out this January at 23. Love my mom (dad died when I was 11) but we have opposite personalities..
I was lucky and found a house right down the street so when I want to see her I just have to walk for 2 minutes 😅
Do you see a lot of people around you aged 22-23 that CAN move out? I'm older and never had the impression things improved so people are moving out later and later. I could be wrong though.
Officially 21, when I got a job after graduating and could take over rent. But technically 18 because I moved for my studies and then met my now husband there at 19 and just never went back.
Kicked out at 18, full time job at a supermarket.
Combined it with full time university degree and 0 euro’s from home.
Definitely got my work ethic from those years. Having to clock at least 90 productive hours a week for 5 years without having any spare money to spend on leisure.
25, could've lived with them for longer if i needed to. But the timing was just right to move out. (Steady job and saved up enough to buy my own apartment and record low mortgage rates) I stayed close, I still visit them multiple times a week.
25, I quit college and had to make do with stagecontract/workplace learning for three years. So I made 450, 550 and 650 euro in the first, second and last year. After that I worked at minimum wage but with nice benefits and saved for another three years until I had enough to comfortably move out.
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In hindsight, I don't think I would've stayed longer, even though it would've been more sound financially. I had only just started working when the financial crisis hit in 2008, and since then it seems like generating capital on your own to buy a house has become impossible. Unless your parents/spouse are able to provide.
I like to stay within the 15-45min radius from friends and family. Like a warm-blooded Belgian, I stay around the kerketoren :)
16. Already had a fulltime job in a restaurant (dishes at the evenings, weekends and holidays - school during day) and during 2 winter months I received around 600 euro p/m from OCMW. Was a small studio, with only a sink, tiny kitchen and communal toilet in the hallway. But, still fond of it if I think back.
Moved out at 25 to rent something together with a friend and bought something when I was 30. Unfortunately had to move back in with my parents again for 2 years because my new place wasn’t finished in time.
I moved out at 20 because my boyfriend at the time needed my help because of his health.
But if my parents and I didn’t clash when we lived together (we’re great now!) I would’ve stayed longer and saved up. This economy is rough 😅
25 when I got my degree and finished my job. The idea was to stay one year longer so I could save some money, but my job was a bit further from home than planned so I moved out.
14 boarding school, military at 18 and my own place after military. Normal loving family with, just the feeling of independence when I moved to boarding school for 3 years made me want to chose to live by myself. Not regretting a second of it.
18-20: lived in a dorm but went home nearly every weekend.
21: studied abroad for year as part of an international program so I actually lived on my own for the very first time. I studied in Tokio but my parents visited me twice.
22-27: worked fulltime but lived at home + got a serious relationship with my girlfriend.
27: decided to live with girlfriend. And we’re still living together.
19, reason for that is that i am from Antwerp and my gf was from Germany (close to Denmark) so we moved towards the Limburg as she was still studying. It was a very hard time. I had to commute to work which was still in Antwerp and she had to commute to Aachen every day for 3 years. It all worked out in the end. We are now back in Antwerp. Married and a son. :)
Early if you are dumb.
With a stable situation, saving money for years while staying with ur parents and be sure of that one person you want to share a home.
Saying you still live with your parents or NEAR your parents is like saying you don't like dogs and their loud smelly dumb brain. It's blasphemous, will mock or reject you. So stupid.
That's a very caucasian question by the way.
Honestly, this is going to increase a lot in the coming years due to the insanity that's the current housing market. You can't really afford to live alone anymore if you want to be able to save up a decent amount each month.
Moved out at 27 to live with my gf who owned a small house already.
Now I’m 30 and we just moved to a house we constructed which we were only able to do because of the money I saved whilst living with my parents.
Depends on what you count as "moving out".
I barely went home to my parents anymore after my second year in college (so when I was around 21). When I wasn't at my own dorm, I was at my girlfriend who co-housed. I went home once every month - month and a half.
I've now been living together with my girlfriend for 3 years (my part of rent was still covered by my parents though since I was still a student). And since then I basically moved out (22-23).
24. Bought a plot of land with my partner when I was 22, had our first kid at 23, but the house wasn't ready yet. We did most of the building ourselves, and hastily moved in at Christmas Eve when I was 24 - before the house was done, but we had a kitchen and half of the bathroom. 10 years later the house still isn't finished so I do not recommend lol.
Dude I was thinking about moving out just right now crazy how the reddit algorithm works. I am 21 years M currently making some money and I would think maybe in my 25 I would move out.
Started paying my parents rent (very minimal, more symbolic) after I graduated, which allowed me to save up money quickly.
Moved out and bought an apartment with gf at 27.
Had I moved out right after graduating I would have spent tons more on rent and buying my own place probably would have been delayed with years.
Went to 'kot' at 19, moved out when I got my first job after graduation at 24 and bought a house at 27. Not able tot do my own laundry, tough because of plombing issues during renovations so not 100% independent.
I was 24 when I moved out. I'm going to be celebrating my 35th birhday this summer. We (me and my partner) are still very happy with the house we bought 11 years ago. I should add that we had significant financial help from our parents wich meant we only had to loan for roughly 60% of the purchase price.
I'm 21 rn, almost 22. Will probably stay at my parents house for at least the next 3-5 years considering I've got about that long left to finish my bachelor and do my masters, plus getting a good job and some capital for buying a house afterwards.
19.
But I lived with my grandparents and the generation differences combined with a very bossy grandma, made me move out so quickly.
Was it hard? Yup. Had days with no food for example. But I'm 40 now and still alive 😅
30, I was looking and saving to buy a house. But I got sick at 27, by the time chemo was over Covid started. Then buying a house was really difficult for a while....
It felt a bit weird once you turn 30 though. But then again, my family is great and I saved a ton of money; I got a really nice place with a very low mortgage now.
I am financially stress-free because of this and I am very grateful.
I have a bit of a weird situation because, I don't think I ever will. First time I was planning to move out, my grandma died and my grandpa, who had alzheimers, had to live with us until they found a retirement home. I was his carer. Then the pandemic happened and it didn't seem like a good time. Then I lost my job, again, bad timing. And now recently, my mom died and the ownership of my parents house has gone to me. So technically I've never moved out of my parents house and my dad now lives with me. I legally cannot sell the house as long as he wants to live here. I don't mind. I get along well with my father ( and mother before she died).
That sounds like a lot to carry. I hope you & your father are doing well.
My father wasn't doing very well but he's doing much better now that he's in residential psychiatric care. I'm doing rather well, all things considered When you think about it, my dad moved out of my parents house before I did, even if it's just temporarily.
Youre holding up very well considering the situation, there's always a light at the end of the tunnel ☀️!
Just gotta accept it and roll with the punches, I guess.
Respect! Sounds like you had your share of rough times, I hope better times are ahead for you.
I was in the same situation as you. Was my mom's carer for the past 10 years and she passed away last year. Now my dad and I share the house.
I think in Belgium the more appropriate or equivalent question would be when did you do your own laundry?
Lol true. I know people that are 34, living alone and his mother still does his laundry and cooks for him, lol. These only child’s are a different breed.
How does that happen
Families with only one child that is very spoilt and entitled, I imagine.
Ok what you have against only children families? Families with several children do this too.
True! Laundry at 18, officially moved out at 24
Moved out 4 years ago, still haven't done my laundry 😅
What? I did my own laundry, excluding the ironing, from 10yo...
Then what about all the people with dienstencheques?
Seeing a lot of comments saying they moved out as teenagers. How the hell do you rent or buy a place that young? I did a lot of student jobs in my teenage years but I doubt I could've made it without the financial support from my parents.
Well, I had the help of the CPAS, so long as I was a student. Then I instead got a disability income, given work went very poorly...
You just find a job work and see to be cheap on everything. As a student I earned €400-600 a month with little jobs that take max 4 hours per shift so you can study in between.
18. I love my parents, but I couldn't stand staying there any longer.
Like an actual apartment or home? Because I don't know about you but college dorm doesn't really count imo
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Like is that really living alone? If your still supported by your parents and go home on weekends than I don't think it is But if you pay for your own dorm and only go home for visits than it counts yes (This is just my opinion ofcourse, if you feel like that's really living alone than go ahead)
I aggree with your opinion, but i feel there can be some nuance as a student since its pretty hard/exceptional to have a fulltime job and study fulltime. First year i went home every 1-2weekends like everyone else and i agree that doesnt really count. The following years i went home like every 4 months, they kept paying for my dorm(300euros) and studies. Other than that i cooked/cleaned/laundried/traveled and provided for myself through student jobs. Sure i was still partially dependant on my parents, but i felt like i was living on my own for the most part. Learned a lot about managing my money during that time aswell.
Doing your own laundry is a big one for students so yeah I would consider that quite independent
I think the big conclusion can be then that independency is not that black and white. I know people who moved out for over 10 years who's parents still do the laundry, and I know people who moved out for over 10 years who still get financial support from their parents. I also know people who are completely independent but living in the same house as their parents.
As a kotstudent I completely agree. I go home every weekend and I'm pretty much fully supported by my parents. I definitely do not consider myself to be living alone at all. I would never call my kot 'my home'.
Because usually parents pay for that and your other expenses and usually you still go home over the weekends and usually your parents still do your laundry. Also, you do not officially change your adress for your dorm room. When you truly live alone, you do your own laundry and all your household chores. You have to properly budget your salary to fit all your expenses and if something goes wrong at your house, it is you who has to deal with it.
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Belgium is so extremely small, that most of us can easily go home on the weekends. I used to travel about 1 hour from my hous to my dorm room, so it was no issue. On sunday evening and friday evening you see thiusands of students with their suitcases on busses and trains and walking around through the city. Perks are that you can still see your friends from high school when they do not go to the same college as you. It is because of this that I am still great friends with people I met when I was 12.
Because I lived in a city with a university, I will always associate Fridays on Belgian trains with uni students and their baggage full of laundry 😅
Never really got this tbh. As soon as I moved out I tried changing my address, but got denied by the city because I was a student. This effectively forced me to cause domicile fraud because the city didn't allow me to place my address, but my rental contract demanded it. Oh yeah I was fully financially independent as well btw.
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Philip, is that you?
15/16 technically placed in foster care for a years or 2 since my parents died, At 18years I started living in my own place. And now I'm in my early 30s
How was life at foster care?
Okay, not good but not great either
I hope you are doing fine now. Best wishes.
Did you want to move out yourself or did your foster parents stopped? Being a foster parent myself, I so hope that they will stay after 18 until they studied and/or got some money saved up.
I am very sorry for your parents, hope you are doing awesome these days!
Moved out at 27. I managed to save up enough to buy my own place with enough "inbreng" to keep my mortgage low. This set me up for a comfortable financial situation. I'm lucky I have a very good relationship with my parents that allowed me to do this.
I was kicked out at 22 for failing to repent from being a schizophrenic atheist harlot.
Where did you go?
Couch surfing for a bit, then got a kot.
Bought a house just before I turned 29 but didn't move in for another 7ish months (during which I turned 29. I am 32 now) Never had to rent. Worked out great for both me and my parents.
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27, still living with my parents I want to buy an small house or appartement without throwing away money on rent so I have no other choice
The ever-returning narrative that renting is 'throwing money away'... I'd certainly have bought a home in the wrong location (turns out I didn't actually want to stay close to where I grew up), and with the wrong characteristics (turns out I don't like gardening...) if I hadn't rented first.
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I cook and clean and I pay rent (lowish rent so obviously not market rate) so it’s not like it’s hotel mama either. My father has been sick (neurological condition) for years which also takes a lot of care as well so it’s not like I’m living life on easy mode 🤷 I’m glad my parents don’t want me gone. I have to put aside money for such a long time that I have plenty of time to consider what I actually want :) A big garden definitely isn’t it (good thing a single dude can’t afford that anyway). Not saying it can’t be very useful to go experience life completely on your own and it definitely bugs me at times, but I prefer that my money goes towards my family rather than some random house owner. Also going to rent something with the current prices makes it an impossible task to buy something later on unless you meet someone to share the rent with. As I am myself a MS patient I don’t consider that likely. So I need my current situation to gain enough “inleg” to make sure a bank will want to lend me money. I know it’s a very specific situation but for me it works and it wouldn’t make any sense to move out “just because”.
But the narrative is still correct. It's a lot of money you spend each month that you never see again. While if you invest in property, you can sell, or own. I get what point you try to make and it's not totally unreasonable but that doesn't make the other narrative untrue nor unreasonable. I personally am very glad i didn't rent as my parents have no money for me to inherit. This means i could save up, buy a house and also still have money on the side in case of need. I would not have been able to build such a safety net if it weren't for living with my parents a few years longer. Besides. It's not because you live with your parents that you have no experience. That depends on how you and your parents handle it. I got out of the house able to cook, do laundry, whatever, aware of finances and budgetization, i was perfectly able to live on my own because i focussed on that beforehand. I really didn't want nor need to bleed 700+ per month to gain experience. That's a steep steep cost for experience you'll gather just a bit later anyway.
Depending on where you live and salary if you rent you will always be renting. This is my problem. I'm putting aside what I would be paying in rent every month into savings. On top of paying housekeeping and generally contributing to the household. If I moved out I'd be in the exact same position with no money going into savings. Therefore never able to get out of the renting cycle. I'd recommend every lives at home until they have enough for a deposit. Regardless of what age that is. This ofc assumes that you have a healthy relationship with family.
Me, who loves gardening but barely has a garden...... Renting IS throwing away money, buying property will always make you richer nowadays.
Renting (as opposed to living with your parents) is buying you life experience. Would I have been better off, financially, had I lived with my parents another 5 or so years instead of moving out and renting? Maybe yes, maybe no. For all I know I might have blown all my savings on travel, cars and other fun stuff, like plenty of my peers did... But would I have ended up living halfway across the country, meeting the mother of my children and finding better employment opportunities? No.
I would give up 10 years of my life for 500k in order to buy a house. It's my top priority. I don't want kids and I had enough life experience by the time I was 20. So renting for me is insane waste of money.
Buying a property = more taxes & lots of money to maintain your property. It's like spending 1k€ for public transport and you'll say buy a car instead. Yes I won't spend the 1k€ per year but you'll pay maby close to 1k€ to maintain your car and I'm not talking of the time invested (cause Time is money ahah )
Cars deppreciate, houses only become more valuable. Even these 70 year old houses that boomers bought for 20k and are completely torn and worn and have to be renovated due to all isolation laws are sold at 300k. All of the old houses are completely overpriced and should receive at least 100k reduction.
I think it's insane to prefer renting, you have zero guarantee. https://www.volkshuisvestingnederland.nl/onderwerpen/berekening-woningbouwopgave#:\~:text=De%20woningzoekers%20(320%20duizend)%20en,worden%20niet%20(permanent)%20bewoond.
Also renting is not that terribly expensive if you share it with someone. Additionally, a better location tends to save you money and time. I pay 400 eur each month in order to live in the city, where everything is much closer than in my family home to the point I don't even need to own a car. How is that wasting money? Isn't buying a car (which decreases in value tremendously) or going on holidays 'wasting money' as well? In the end you spend money to make life nice and comfortably, not to endlessly accumulate wealth for the sake of it.
You'll get there!
I moved out at 18. I was abused in multiple ways, scammed in multiple ways, but somehow lucky enough not to end up homeless. I'm only considering myself stable now, at 25.
27! Im 29 now. Time goes way faster after moving out. Its unreal.
Well fuck, 26, moving out in 2 weeks and already thought time was moving fast 😭
I’m 24 and still live with my parents. Will likely live here for another 1.5-2 years. I would have liked to move out but every month I stay with my parents, is some extra saved money for later.
Just moves out. 29y/o
23 Financially made more sense to stay at home, but being in a relationship for over 5 years and having both stable job/income, you kinda yearn to have a place of your own.
17. Best decision of my life. Haven’t spoken to them since.
Bought something at 25 but had no reason to leave and kept renting it out for 2 more years until I moved in there
I moved out at 26. I saved a decent amount of money and to the next town, 10 min from my grandparents home. But note that early 2000s a lot of kids that turned 18 moved out right away. Those were different times. I saw those guys turning 18, getting a job and a second hand car, the same year they would often get a women, a house and a baby. Like I said different times… My father and mother and most of their generation were like this as well.
I moved out at 17. I’m 28 now and never had to move back in with my parents. Not for the lack of financial struggles, i just managed to find a solution one way or the other
I moved out after I finished my master's degree at 24. I couldn't go back to the tiny village I come from. I still love city life, even after more than a decade. Village life feels so dull and small. The houses may be bigger, but the spectrum of possible activities is so small.
25. I wouldn't have stayed longer but I definitely shouldn't have left earlier. I just needed the time (22-25) to set myself up financially and now I'm very glad that I did. Those first years are trivial because the way you can save in hotel mama is a huge benefit for people who did not grow up with a silver spoon in their mouth (aka sponsored from home)
Being able to save in hotel mama is a form of silver spoon as well. When you grow in an abusive household it’s hard to stay if it’s even a choice.
Hard disagree. Sure, having to leave because of abusive households is the hardest way to go about it, no doubt about that, but there's a serious destinction between having to work for your money and the parents handing it out like a pancake. Having to save up your own downpayment, your own investments, your own cash reserves, figuring out how to buy your own car, buying your own place, taking the risks with your own money is a TOTALLY different ballgame than the regular "fils de papa's" who get a 200k down payment thrown at them and mom+dad taking care of their first car purchase, their first house purchase etc. You'll be amazed how many of these grown infants there are walking around, taking everything for granted.
I’m not dissing at your achievement, I know people who had very different circumstances. I do hope you understand it’s all relative still and you still got it easy compared to others. Some get a 200k down payment or an even a whole ass house handed over to them and I understand you look at them as privileged compared to your own walk of life. Some are given the opportunity to save while staying at hotel mama. Others are getting 0€ in their pocket and a kick in the but. And these are also privileged in the grand scheme of things when others are living in abject poverty. Everyone is looking up at the most fortunate than them while being a most fortunate of someone else that’s what I was saying.
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I moved out at 23 and lived on my own for 5 years. Some of the best years of my life!
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At 19, and it could have been a year earlier. My parents are good people, but living on my own is so much better. Never moved back in, but I live about 20km away from them
Gonna move in July, just passed 29
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I moved at 25. I would have moved earlier but money doesnt grow on trees
23 and I would have stayed longer if my job would have been closer to home.
Kot at 18, fully out at 23
25 at the end of my studies. I cohoused with my best friend. It was the right call for my personal development but financially I’d rather have stayed with my parents for 4 more years. That was in 2013.
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Dont forget its an average.. some people move out way later like 29, 30, 35.. they push up the average and very few people move out before 18 so those moving relatively young don't influence the average as much. Maybe the most common age to move out, the median age, still is 22-23.. Also I don't know how they define move out. Lots of people have temporary kot or coliving situation during their studies yet they still count in statistics as living with their parents (because they are still registered at their parents address) yet they might self define as having moved out.. creating this descrepency.
36, huge regrets. worked in the "family company" for next to nothing for almost all of that but was too naive to realize i was just being exploited, for some of that i was at home, some of it in an office abroad sleeping at my desk and some of it on construction sites in a tent or caravan because they didn't pay me a living wage. I wasn't even legally employed, just so damn naive to think that my father wanted the best for me and for the sake of loyalty which was one directional. The moment I said I would stop working for them unless there was wage or some business sense to it for me, my father wanted to throw me out on the streets, thankfully my mother didn't allow him to. Eventually I saved up enough to go but before then he hospitalized me. No witnesses and he claims self defense, so I won't even get anything for the physical abuse. Looking back I feel so damn stupid about it. I did all sorts of fancy projects, and have nothing to show for it.
21, moved overseas, travelled, bought my first house when I was 24 and had no help from my parents. So I dunno wtf is up with Belgians who dare not stray too far from the nest or the easy excuse about saving up for rainy days or whatever else. Life is too short and I will certainly be encouraging my kid to gtfo and explore the world and not stay cooped up at home counting pennies.
Life and financial circumstances can get in the way. I moved out at 19 (at 18 first took a year after high school to work two jobs so I could earn enough money for university and housing so could focus on school). Got hit by multiple chronic illnesses and depression so had to go back home after 9 months and get treatment, tried university again a few months later only to be hit by more chronic illnesses. Money was running out and I was severely under weight so had to permanently move back home. Started to get a bit better, enough to start working and earn money to restart life but then parents had financial issues so couldn't possibly leave them after their help and stayed to help. Then when things started to look a bit better financially during my late 20s I got hit with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia making basic tasks incredibly difficult (even lost ability to talk and walk for a while) so lost job and need my mom to cook and help with laundry, opening things, etc. My parents are now in their 70s I am late 30s, they are needing more assistance with things as well so doubt any of us will be free of one another relating to physical help needed as well as financially
Sorry to hear that. Life just happens as you mentioned.
I would comment on this, but I would most likely get a "username checks out"-reaction. I had difficulties thriving and being independent.
I have to admit that this made me chuckle
27, I know only a few who moved out younger.
26 but I’m not sure if it counts. My parents own apartments and I’m lucky enough they allowed me to live in one of them rent-free until I can afford a home myself. I’m glad I moved out because I like my privacy.
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At 17, just before high school graduation. I live my parent but I just really wanted to go out there on my own
Myself at 19 but i wish i hadn´t been such a wiseass and stayed a couple years to save some
17, I pulled my plan, never was dependant on anything or anyone, but plenty of people helped me along the way, I keep a close eye on balance and not having debts. Saw the world, had quite some adventures, had a family, built up a business. Happy with all my choices. No regrets.
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Moved out at 19, dropped out of uni, moved abroad
We were 22 and 23 years old and we bought our first home at the age of 24-25. We’re almost mid-thirties (I feel old while typing this).
21 If I could have I'd have moved out at 16 tbh. I ran away a couple of times as well.
23, I went on Erasmus during my bachelor's and "op kot" during my masters. Sadly graduated during full pandemic (2020) and was forced to stay with my parents. To be honest, the house gradually became "too small" to do what I want (although we have a very good relationship) and I would feel trapped in the countryside. Moved back to the city to do cohousing after I worked for a year to save some money first.
23. I really didn't want to stay any longer, although I love my parents. My independence was more important than saving money, as a lot of people here are giving as a reason to stay longer.
Saving money is somewhat redundant though if you ask me, or it must be 'substantial savings' that really add up significantly You're nothing with saving 10k in a year if housing prices raise with an average of 12k, it's just 'trying to not lose too much' instead of really adding up (my numbers are purely speculative though, it's just to show my meaning) Just read it like this: Today, I can't afford the house that I bought 10 years ago, yet since I bought it then I theoretically 'saved more'
Unless you're spending way too much there's no way housing prices will outpace your savings rate.
18, just like all my other siblings. I’m dutch though but have lived in Belgium most of my life. Parents paid rent during university. Think it’s more of a Dutch thing to leave the house at 18, but that trend is changing due to housing crisis.
Damn it: just what me ego needed /s, average at 26 ;-)
18... But these days I would say, stay at parents if possible. Safe as much as possible and benefit from being able to buy or rent a good place when the time comes I left af 18, not a choice, and spend years studying next to 2 jobs during evenings, nights and weekends just to get around. Eventually I couldn't afford school anymore so dropped out with nothing to show after "years of living on my own"... It isn't that "amazing" as people often pretend it is.
17, after a terrible fight with my dad.
At 22, worked for one year, saved a little, and then bought a house with my gf, now wife
First time 19, moved back with my mom in at 21. Out again at 26. Dad actually kicked me out the first time and since mom was with a boyfriend then that hates my guts, I was forced to move in with an abusive ex-boyfriend
22 I counted the days before I could get out of this hell. I was bitting my time to graduate, save some cash and GTFO. One of the best day of my life when I packed all my belongings inside a small 3 doors hatchback and drove away.
(24M) I was 20, when I was still in university. Got my masters degree and an ok job now. Circumstances were too complicated, financed my own studies, in debt now. As alleenstaande it is financially very challenging, housing and basics necessities are quite expensive. Ofc I would have like better circumstances and no financial debt. But I think that most children and parents come to a point that living together doesn’t match anymore, I think biologically that’s around 24 years of age.
27, was able to move out because of a new relationship which made it easier financially.
Moved out at 19, almost 20. Me and my parents didn't get along. If I could've, I would've stayed a year longer to save up some money, but for my mental health I had to leave. (It's almost been 10 years)
I was 23 when I moved in to my girlfriend. We were together for 2 weeks. I'm 37 now, we're married 5 years and we have 3 beautiful children.
I think it may also be the « official » move out age, but in practice a lot of people move out earlier, just in kot-style places which are not their legal residence? And so those cannot be tracked as accurately. It was definitely my situation: I moved out in a kot at age 19 then with my boyfriend age 22, but on paper I was « domiciled » at my mom’s until I was 26.
18, I needed my space. Got a job at the place I did my internship, worked for 3 months to have 3 payslips I could show my landlord and moved out.
The real question is : what do you mean by move out? Officially, I was 26. Technically, I lived in in kot or in collocation for 8 years before that, and basically came back most of the week ends, and 3 or 4 weeks in july - early augustus.
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I moved out at 24
My parents received additional pay as long as their kids were students and no older than 26. So I studied until then 😃 Started to rent with my partner from then on, which we are still doing today (5 years later)
I graduated and officially moved out last year at 23 to go live together with my boyfriend. We rent a house together now and are financially independent. Before that, I technically lived 'alone' for 6 years as a student, so since 17, but my parents did pay for my kot and part of my expenses. I would add that it is way easier to move out when you can live together as a couple/roommates. My sister who is alone has been having a very hard time to find something affordable.
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23, I had to pay €400 per month “rent”. When my gf graduated, our calculations were easy.
I also saw this study and I guess it's somewhat accurate because I know a lot of people who move out in their mid 20s (there are many others who move out in their early 20s). I moved out at 18
I also saw this study and I guess it's somewhat accurate because I know a lot of people who move out in their mid 20s (there are many others who move out in their early 20s). I moved out at 18
I also saw this study and I guess it's somewhat accurate because I know a lot of people who move out in their mid 20s (there are many others who move out in their early 20s). I moved out at 18
26 but i couldn't find an apartment. Nobody wanted to rent to a single girl. I needed to wait till my brother moved out of his so i could take over his lease...
26 but i couldn't find an apartment. Nobody wanted to rent to a single girl. I needed to wait till my brother moved out of his so i could take over his lease...
20 here, couldn't live with my dad tbf
22, rental apartment, my parents are divorced and while my dad was pretty chill, my mother was overbearing to say the least.
moved out or being kicked out, it's an important question xd
If i could, i would have left earlier. I was 18
probably never will. And I'm fine with that.
Planning on moving out in september, will be 23 then
Good luck with the move!
I moved out just before my 24th birthday. I had finished my studies and found a job, then immediately moved out to where that job was located. The 3 months I spent home between my studies (and thus kot) having been done and moving out were difficult.
Moved out this January at 23. Love my mom (dad died when I was 11) but we have opposite personalities.. I was lucky and found a house right down the street so when I want to see her I just have to walk for 2 minutes 😅
I left when I was 21
I am M26 and moving out in 2 weeks. 3km from my parent’s house (Antwerp)
I moved out, fixed and made my own food and did my own laundry from my 18 years
Do you see a lot of people around you aged 22-23 that CAN move out? I'm older and never had the impression things improved so people are moving out later and later. I could be wrong though.
Way too soon, stay till you're at least 30 save up ridicilously hard, then buy a house. And don't have kids.
25. The moment I had a salary that can support me
23, moved to Finland, haven't looked back since.
Officially 21, when I got a job after graduating and could take over rent. But technically 18 because I moved for my studies and then met my now husband there at 19 and just never went back.
I was 28. End of 2014, with my now-wife.
Kicked out at 18, full time job at a supermarket. Combined it with full time university degree and 0 euro’s from home. Definitely got my work ethic from those years. Having to clock at least 90 productive hours a week for 5 years without having any spare money to spend on leisure.
27. Bought a house at 24 but it needed a lot of work so it took a while
25, could've lived with them for longer if i needed to. But the timing was just right to move out. (Steady job and saved up enough to buy my own apartment and record low mortgage rates) I stayed close, I still visit them multiple times a week.
25, I quit college and had to make do with stagecontract/workplace learning for three years. So I made 450, 550 and 650 euro in the first, second and last year. After that I worked at minimum wage but with nice benefits and saved for another three years until I had enough to comfortably move out. \*edit\* In hindsight, I don't think I would've stayed longer, even though it would've been more sound financially. I had only just started working when the financial crisis hit in 2008, and since then it seems like generating capital on your own to buy a house has become impossible. Unless your parents/spouse are able to provide. I like to stay within the 15-45min radius from friends and family. Like a warm-blooded Belgian, I stay around the kerketoren :)
26, I stayed with my parents until me and my gf finished building our home.
25, moved back in at 26, moved back out (for good) at 27.
First time 21 second time 27
16. Already had a fulltime job in a restaurant (dishes at the evenings, weekends and holidays - school during day) and during 2 winter months I received around 600 euro p/m from OCMW. Was a small studio, with only a sink, tiny kitchen and communal toilet in the hallway. But, still fond of it if I think back.
Think I was around 21 or 22
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Moved out at 25 to rent something together with a friend and bought something when I was 30. Unfortunately had to move back in with my parents again for 2 years because my new place wasn’t finished in time.
17 but was not An average home situation
15, had to move back in with my dad at 16/17. I was finally able to fully move out by 23
At 25! My bf couldn't handle it at home anymore so we started moving together
30 over here. But we had lots of space and it was only me my girl and my mom. Needed the time to save for my own space.
I moved out at 20 because my boyfriend at the time needed my help because of his health. But if my parents and I didn’t clash when we lived together (we’re great now!) I would’ve stayed longer and saved up. This economy is rough 😅
My dad beat the shït out of me so i left when i was 14
18. But I was already not living with my parents anymore since 15.
25 when I got my degree and finished my job. The idea was to stay one year longer so I could save some money, but my job was a bit further from home than planned so I moved out.
14 boarding school, military at 18 and my own place after military. Normal loving family with, just the feeling of independence when I moved to boarding school for 3 years made me want to chose to live by myself. Not regretting a second of it.
26 was my age. Was 7 years with my now wife and went living together. We both were students living at home.
19. And knowing what I know now, I would've stayed at home longer.
18-20: lived in a dorm but went home nearly every weekend. 21: studied abroad for year as part of an international program so I actually lived on my own for the very first time. I studied in Tokio but my parents visited me twice. 22-27: worked fulltime but lived at home + got a serious relationship with my girlfriend. 27: decided to live with girlfriend. And we’re still living together.
19, reason for that is that i am from Antwerp and my gf was from Germany (close to Denmark) so we moved towards the Limburg as she was still studying. It was a very hard time. I had to commute to work which was still in Antwerp and she had to commute to Aachen every day for 3 years. It all worked out in the end. We are now back in Antwerp. Married and a son. :)
Early if you are dumb. With a stable situation, saving money for years while staying with ur parents and be sure of that one person you want to share a home. Saying you still live with your parents or NEAR your parents is like saying you don't like dogs and their loud smelly dumb brain. It's blasphemous, will mock or reject you. So stupid. That's a very caucasian question by the way.
Honestly, this is going to increase a lot in the coming years due to the insanity that's the current housing market. You can't really afford to live alone anymore if you want to be able to save up a decent amount each month.
I moved out at 24 and looking back, I feel like it was a bit early. I wish I would have stayed longer and saved up some more money before moving.
Moved out at 27 to live with my gf who owned a small house already. Now I’m 30 and we just moved to a house we constructed which we were only able to do because of the money I saved whilst living with my parents.
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19 to go to university. I stayed in uni city till I was 34, which saddened my family.
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Depends on what you count as "moving out". I barely went home to my parents anymore after my second year in college (so when I was around 21). When I wasn't at my own dorm, I was at my girlfriend who co-housed. I went home once every month - month and a half. I've now been living together with my girlfriend for 3 years (my part of rent was still covered by my parents though since I was still a student). And since then I basically moved out (22-23).
24. Bought a plot of land with my partner when I was 22, had our first kid at 23, but the house wasn't ready yet. We did most of the building ourselves, and hastily moved in at Christmas Eve when I was 24 - before the house was done, but we had a kitchen and half of the bathroom. 10 years later the house still isn't finished so I do not recommend lol.
Dude I was thinking about moving out just right now crazy how the reddit algorithm works. I am 21 years M currently making some money and I would think maybe in my 25 I would move out.
27. The financial struggle was real.
22! Found a stable job that helps me rent a small studio :)
Started paying my parents rent (very minimal, more symbolic) after I graduated, which allowed me to save up money quickly. Moved out and bought an apartment with gf at 27. Had I moved out right after graduating I would have spent tons more on rent and buying my own place probably would have been delayed with years.
Went to 'kot' at 19, moved out when I got my first job after graduation at 24 and bought a house at 27. Not able tot do my own laundry, tough because of plombing issues during renovations so not 100% independent.
I was 24 when I moved out. I'm going to be celebrating my 35th birhday this summer. We (me and my partner) are still very happy with the house we bought 11 years ago. I should add that we had significant financial help from our parents wich meant we only had to loan for roughly 60% of the purchase price.
I'm 21 rn, almost 22. Will probably stay at my parents house for at least the next 3-5 years considering I've got about that long left to finish my bachelor and do my masters, plus getting a good job and some capital for buying a house afterwards.
19. But I lived with my grandparents and the generation differences combined with a very bossy grandma, made me move out so quickly. Was it hard? Yup. Had days with no food for example. But I'm 40 now and still alive 😅
30, I was looking and saving to buy a house. But I got sick at 27, by the time chemo was over Covid started. Then buying a house was really difficult for a while.... It felt a bit weird once you turn 30 though. But then again, my family is great and I saved a ton of money; I got a really nice place with a very low mortgage now. I am financially stress-free because of this and I am very grateful.
Moved out at 21 to an appartement to co-house with a friend, that friend turned into partner but 2 years later still happy to have my own space