Are these two things related in a way in which OPA! would approve?

don't know what the fuck that's all about but actually i'm 25, thanks.

I agree with Fickerson. Everyone I knew moved out at 18 and I was surprised by how many of you stayed at home until your mid-twenties.

Didn't you get married fresh outta high school or shortly thereafter?

I've learned that non-whites tend to stay at home longer. I'm fairly certain culture has a lot to do with it.

Well we start raising our own babies at 13, so you have to move out by 18 if not sooner.

But to clear any confusion I got married at 25. Young but not quite 18.

See? I knew it!

alongwaltz, why don't you just apply for a student loan and go to school?

I'm sure there's somewhere nearby where you could go.


I moved out at 18 and went to college. My folks helped me as much as they could with rent, bills, expenses but I also had student loans for school. I worked during the summers and holidays to help as much as I could scrounge.

I moved back for a few months while I looked for a job after college.

Once I got one I moved out and started paying back my loan and then..........on my own and all growns up.

I think whites are staying at home longer than they did 10-15 years ago. A lot of nurses I work with have kids in their early to mid-twenties who still live at home whereas back in '92 when I graduated HS no one I knew still lived at home. I moved out at 18 for college and have only been back to KY twice, once for a funeral (my brother) and my father's second marriage. Oh yeah, and my mother's bypass in '99, which was the last time I went back to that sewer of a state. Even after dropping out of college I resolutely refused to move back. Horrible adolescence.

Come on greygrey.

At least admit that the Kentucky Derby is one hell of a good time.

That and the weed is pretty good.

they didn't pay for everything, but they did cover a big chunk of my expenses while i was in school. i also went to a sister school of the ones where they worked, so there was a fat discount on my tuition. (as someone else noted earlier, not having student loans has been amazing.) and then they let me live at home for over a year after college while i was trying to scrape together enough to live on my own.

It should also be noted that Louisiana pays for all of the non-moron kids to go to college in state. So I only had to come up with living expenses, which I borrowed and worked for. I think Georgia does this to?

18 - moved to Sydney (5.5 hrs away) for uni. Didn't really have a choice since my hometown doesn't have a uni, and there was no way I was going to the one an hour or so up the road.

Have been in college all 4 years so moved back home for the first two summers, then to my grandparents last summer.

Am moving out of college into a house nearby for the summer, but have to look for something permanent for next year.

Luckily, we have HECS for most uni courses here, where the government pays the uni upfront for your studies and you incurb a deffered loan of sorts that is much less than the full cost of study. The loan is interest free and only indexed for inflation, and you only start paying it back once your salary reaches a certain threshold. So all of that makes it a lot easier to move out of home earlier here, and my parents have been cool and paid accommodation costs, though I also work. So, still not financially independent, and won't be till I graduate and get a proper job.

The same trend of people, especially students, staying at home for longer is also happening here. In large part due to the crazy costs of living in the major cities, especially Sydney and Melbourne, which is where the majority of unis are.

Yep. Hope Scholarship. Georgia will pay for your entire education if you go to UGA and maintain a B average.

Then again it's driven up entrance SAT scores to over 1300 and you pretty much have to be in the top 5-10% of your class to get it these days.

Pretty hotly debated issue over here due to the lottery funding it.

You have to have a 21 on the ACT and a 2.5 grade point average. But you have to have 27 on the ACT and 3.0 to even think about getting into LSU. But it'll pay for you to go to any state school and give you the cash amount to attend one of Louisiana's private colleges.

18 for college, came back for a couple of summers except for after sophmore year when I interned at beggars banquet in NYC...

after college I was home for maybe a week before I got a job in Philly and then I packed up my corolla that weekend.

I recently had to move back to my parents in March but I found a decent paying job so I moved back out in June.

I don't like living at home but I like being closer to my family.

this is about to become a thorn in my side again as i am preparing to graduate in may. i fear that i may end up doing another stint at home until i find something substantially money making. apart from that i haven't lived at home since i was 17.

Yeah, I got 4 good years out of this, and my dad gave me a stipend. Worked every summer, and worked junior and senior year as well.

At 20 I moved out to go to college but was supported by my parents (I only worked during the summers) until I graduated.

I've never moved back (except during college breaks, etc.) and have been on my own since graduating in 1999.

all sale items for groceries and no other purchases as long as the lack-of-budget dictates. A lot of sandwiches, ramen, mac&cheese, generic cereal, etc. when i moved out at 18, my budget wasn't nuts yet for music. (that'd happen once the college loans kicked in.)

that first summer i had 2 jobs for a while and slept little. it was tough, but not really impossible. and i didn't have a car, either.

I too was on the HOPE Grant @ UGA even though I kept a below C average, but I kept the minimum GPA for how many hours I was enrolled. I worked the system, yo (by accident).
My parents were a HUGE help to me. Definitely couldn't have survived without them.
alongwaltz, I suggest student loans. They paid my way through school at the university I eventually graduated from, MTSU.

Whoa! There's somebody else on Obner who's not a "real, live Horatio Alger story"? That's unpossible.

I thought we were all wholly self-made. (Well, save for me, of course.) I thought we fully supported ourselves, never receiving anything from our parents.

Or, is that just a myth to which we like to adhere, to justify our (sometimes) mild stupidity? (To wit, 'if I'm on my own, paying everything from my own labor, then if I get the herp or need an abortion, or have to get bailed out of the house of corrections for a "holding" violation, even if I don't, in fact, cover it myself (like, say, a loan from my parents, an understanding aunt, whatever-have-you), then I'm ok to be reckless'.) Is that it?

18 for school. Never looked back and quite honestly, don't think the folks would've taken me. School of hardknocks & whatnot.

Are you graduating early?

Haha... I'll never fully support myself, I'm sure of it. My therapist even refers to me as a teenager. If I need money, I know I can ask my parents or grandparents for help... that's only because I've always promptly paid them back in the past. I consider myself very lucky to have a safety net.