How old were you when you finally moved out of your parents' home?

FAIL. Very poorly worded responses.

This seems geared towards elder gays and Gen xers.

I was 25.

It was sold about 10 years ago. My surviving parent died five years ago.

I recently visited the neighborhood and was introduced to the new owners. I wasn't counting on this happening, but they kindly invited me to look around. SOOO many changes.

I cried more over what had remained the same.

At 26. When I got my first job after graduate school.

I’m still there

17 and off to school...I could not wait to get the fuck out of there.

I did not leave voluntarily. I was made to take extra courses my junior year so I could graduate a year early. Shipped off to a shitty college at 16/17 (October birthday). It ruined my life.

The worst is when you return home for the brief period right after college.

r8 No surprise breakfast guests, Junior.

I graduated HS at 16 and I moved out to a college dorm. This was 55 years ago and in those days you were required to live in an on-campus dorm for your freshman year (if you weren't a local student). I was but I wanted to get out of the house. I loved my dorm year, but was happy to move into my own place a year later.

26 to an apartment. Bought first house @ 32.

I’d way through my senior year I turned 18 and was out that weekend. My mom had already threatened to kick me out at 18 so I made it easy on everyone.

I was 22 and two years later they moved in with me.

Never. I am still living in the same house I have lived in since I was 10 years old.

I graduated high school at 16, and went to work instead of going to college, since I lived in fear of their finding out I was gay. I moved out a month after my 18th birthday, and it was disastrous. I explained that I was gay, and was disowned. It took years to get over that, but I became very close to both my parents.

I left for college, came back, left to live with my bf, came back, left for grad school and stayed away.

Seventeen. College. My grandmother gave me a beautiful set of Hartmann luggage as a graduation present and I used it right away. I went back in my 40’s to keep my Mom out of a nursing home, but I couldn’t handle the commute or the upkeep after she died so I sold it. No regrets.

spent freshman year of college at home

then out and gone for good

I left at 17. This as back in 1977, times were different then.

I was 23, so like the first year after college I left. This was in the 2000s. I had to pay a small amount for rent for my room, as I had a full time job. After that, never came back for help once.

After being evicted from my apartment when I was 28 due to having a cat, I found myself back at home for a month until I was able to find a new apartment. I was able to schedule my work to be out of town a good chunk of the month. My poor cat wasn't so lucky. Not only did she have to acclimate herself to new surroundings, but she had to do so in the presence of my parents, inveterate cat haters.

I never left, though it is now my parents who reside beneath ... er, in the basement.

15 but mainly because I went to youthful offender prison.

18 I think.

18, when I went to college. After college I was lucky enough to be able to afford my own apartment for $700 a month. Today that same apartment is $2200 a month.

My first apartment was $150.00/month, and I still struggled. I ended up buying my parents' house from my Dad's estate after he died, so I guess I've never finally left (although I had plenty of different apartments over the intervening years). My parents moved into this house in 1963.

I feel bad for the younger generation because the cost of housing is so ridiculous. There's no such thing as a cheap apartment anymore.

I was batch-ing with my dad for a few years out of college. Mom had died and it was just us in the house. I was a late-in-life baby so I was in my early 20s and he was in his 60s. In my mid-20s I took another job out of town and that was that.

My parents sent me to a private boarding school in the 9th grade, when I was 14.

I stayed there for four years, and then went out of state for college, where I lived in residence halls.

After getting my BA, I alternately lived with parents and grandparents for the next five years, until I got my own place at 27.

Except for that short stint in my 20s when I was living with family, I basically moved out when I was 14.

Boarding school and college dorm life really prepared me for being independent, and I'm very grateful for that.

I lived at home in college, and my parents got new jobs hundreds of miles away.

So my parents' home moved away from me when I was 22.

I put kicked out, but I went to boarding school my junior year and never went back