Poll time!

[cherry]

I am terribly behind on email and LJ in general, and I am sorry. I do have quick poll, because I am curious.* And not in any way because I am about to lose my ability to post polls.

By what age do you think people should be moving out of the home of their parental units? Barring extenuating circumstances, of course -- if one is an undergraduate student at a university in the same town, for example, or the child is actually the one who owns the home.


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* Also in no way because I have recently seen Failure to Launch, as that is not the sort of movie I am likely to watch. But if I had, I would be able to reconfirm my opinion of Bradley Cooper's extreme excellence.

Comments

[curlyjo1.livejournal.com]

I can't really vote. I'm 28 and live in Mom's basement. Although, I just moved down here a couple of months ago.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

So, 25+, then? *G*

I think that if it's a transient state, if you've been on your own and you're not intending upon staying more than a month or two, that's different as well.

Like I said, I'm just curious. *G*

[curlyjo1.livejournal.com]

Well, in my case, it's a matter of not being able to afford a place of my own. Me, Mom, Mom's boyfriend, and his dad all live in the same house and share the expenses.

It's an odd case. ;)

[elvenjen4.livejournal.com]

I don't think it depends on age, it depends all on circumstance. One of my good friends still lives with her parents, and she's 30. (Though she hasn't always lived there, just since she moved back after living in SoCal with school.) Because this is the Bay Area and her parents have a fantastic house in exactly where she'd want to live, so why waste her money on her own right now? Others move out when they go to college and never move back because they like the area where they went to school or find a job and can afford to live on their own from the start.

So I can't vote either 'cause it's totally not an age thing.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

While I do agree that it can be highly situational, I do think that a lot of people do have, somewhere in their minds, an age at which they look a little differently at somone when they find out they live in their parent's basements. I'm thinking more in a general case, which is why I mentioned barring extenuating circumstances. Housing costs being higher than Steve Urkel's pants would fall into that category, I believe.

I am sleepy, and perhaps not too good at expressing myself at the moment. For that, I apologize.

[jennyo.livejournal.com]

I voted, but I will amend to, "or in cases of inadequate employment and inflated housing prices" -- I've done the month or two thing at my folks' in the last year or two because of Santa Barbara's stupid high housing costs and school.

Otherwise, I would actually say 24-28, giving people 18 months post-college to get their shit together and save up enough to not screw themselves on moving out. I dunno. Because I actually understand the money issue, but I also HATE LIVING WITH MY PARENTS. It triggers major anxiety/depression episodes. Then again, apparently not paying rent is also good for preventing those. Go figure.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

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And this is why I used the 'barring extenuating circumstances' bit, because yes, this is v. valid.

<i>Because I actually understand the money issue, but I also HATE LIVING WITH MY PARENTS. It triggers major anxiety/depression episodes. Then again, apparently not paying rent is also good for preventing those. Go figure.</i>

I know where you are coming from, there, because living with my parents for any amount of time would -- yeah. My sister would be even worse, with her 'maybe if you were pretty like me you'd have a boyfriend!'

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

While I said 18-21, I'm aware that housing prices being what they are in Melbourne (you'll really struggle to live on under $200/week in a sharehouse, and about $300 on your own) that it's really not that possible while you're at uni unless you've managed to earn squillions of dollars and managed to get hold of some sort of benifits. *grins* So I'm qualifying the answer to 18-21 if you're working and within six months of finishing uni, whenever that is. I however, am lucky enough to be a dole bludger and am sponging off the government and sharehousing. It's much, much nicer than living with my family, even if food does become problematic at the end of some fortnights.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

*G* Yes, no, schooling is definitely in the extenuating circumstances list. *G* Got to love school.