I'm 22 years old still living under my parents roof, planning on moving out once I graduate and get into grad school? Is his normal or do most move out earlier or later?
I'm 22 years old still living under my parents roof, planning on moving out once I graduate and get into grad school? Is his normal or do most move out earlier or later?
Don't worry about it. Most Americans are financially dependent on something. If it's not their parents, it's a bank. In the old days, people used to live with their families on farms. Living with parents is what was done until the last couple hundred years.
Once you have your college degree you should be supporting yourself in 6months. Or once you turn 24. Whatever comes first.
22 yo guy at home wrote:
I'm 22 years old still living under my parents roof, planning on moving out once I graduate and get into grad school? Is his normal or do most move out earlier or later?
Some people are 21 when they graduate.
I left home at 16, HS dropout, went into the Crotch. Came back after 4 on a school cut at 19 with one baby girl and a wife. Stayed for 2 years and went to Jr College on the old GI bill. At 21, I got into a Top Public 4 year on Affirmative Action, with a paid internship in private industry. So we left home for an apartment 1 block from frat row. I never pledged but owe my life to the frat boys for pulling me through hell. My wife got in a quarter later. My mom helped the whole time with our 2 kids else we would have never graduated.
I've moved out, but my parents still pay most of my bills - does that count?
hjdfhjs wrote:
I've moved out, but my parents still pay most of my bills - does that count?
Nooooooooo
In other words, OP, you are what most people would call a 'loser'. Or a 'European'.
Have fun being a virgin for 2-4 more years.
yoyoyomama wrote:
hjdfhjs wrote:I've moved out, but my parents still pay most of my bills - does that count?
Nooooooooo
OK, but what if I never have to work again because my parents got me set for life? i guess then ill never be financially independent
I was 22.
16
Flunked out of university at 19. Joined Coast Guard and washed out. At that point, I think I was 20, at which time my parents said, never again. Had an interesting time of it for a few years living on $3.35/hr, stealing food, living without electricity--pretty ugly but pretty memorable. Didn't graduate until I was 27 and had a kid.
Well, legally I was considered financially independent (ie nobody declared me on taxes) at 8 but I still lived with various (non-parental) family until I was 17. Once I graduated from HS, I never returned home. Supported myself through college (with generous financial aid), got a job, then worked through grad school. So, I guess I'd say 17.
My HS GF inherited a classic 6 just off Park Ave NYC from Grandparents.
Her modeling career was moving forward, I was set to graduate in Jan and she in June so we took the leap. A just about to be married couple she knew took the master bedroom. Two older models from her agency took the other bedroom and we moved into the 9.5 x 12 maids room. Their payments covered 90% of the maintenance and all we had to do is pay 1/3 utilities the other 10% and feed ourselves.
Both our parents were pretty progressive for the time(early `60s and also aware we would do it anyway) and were supporting. It was a struggle. By the end of the first year the just married couple moved out we took the master and rented the maids out to a single gal. Our share of the overhead got a lot bigger but we found ways to make it work.
Summer of freshmen year college. End up with loans/grants, borrowing money. Lived and rented different places each summer until I graduated. Went to school and worked double shifts at a hospital on weekends. After I graduated, joined the military and moon lighted two other jobs to pay off ALL my loans.
Most humbling experience ever.
23 and that was a year too late.
hjdfhjs wrote:
OK, but what if I never have to work again because my parents got me set for life? i guess then ill never be financially independent
Respect is earned, even if your money is not.
I graduated at 21 from an Ivy, got into investment banking straight out of school, and never relied on my parents since. You're kind of a loser.
Left home at 18 and moved to Japan for a year and taught English. Then went to university back in England when I was 19. I paid for it all myself with loans and part-time jobs and scholarships and the like. (It wasn't too expensive however compared to USA.)
I was fortunate because my parents were broke so couldn't give me a penny, so there was sort of no choice.