When did you move away from home?

Fukuyama

As in your mammy's house? :P

I'll be shipping out this summer and was wondering what age the average boardsies moved out at? Any tales to go along with it?

Absurdum

18, college, end of story.

mikemac

18

And everytime I went home I was told I'm barely eating and wasting away and sit down now and we'll get you a dinner

I blame the Mammy for me putting me on weight

Decoda

17, college, start of the story;)

El Siglo

19 really (had to commute for first year), used to go home for the summers and work.

mahamageehad

18. college.

Theres nothing like moving out of home to make you appreciate going home!! :P The mother fusses over ya in a mad way then, washing done and food cooked and all!!

Wagon

22. couldn't afford it till then.

Stained Class

36 (Parents got too old to look after me)

gargleblaster

16. bad situation

mikemac

It's amazing going home for the weekend

Throw a huge bag of washing in the utility room and when you leave Sunday night the pixies and elves who live there have it all washed, dried and ironed.

Love those little guys

henryporter

17 and haven't been back - my aul' pair did enough looking after me 'til then:D

Mint Sauce

21 for college. Still go home every 2 or 3 weekends though.

RichieC

gosh, like any self respecting jewish boy I left home at 27.

EverEvolving

18 and out the door to college, it was great!

Had to move home for 2 months after travelling for a bit and it was torture, I fought with my dad at least once a day over some daft power struggle, my house my rules crap.

Love them and visit regularly and stay over night sometimes but I could never live there again.

nix84

16. Have a great family just took a notion and was too stubborn to go back!

Agricola

11. Couldnt stick the 'rents. They was well crampin' me style.

Victor Meldrew

26, Moved out to "live in sin". No real point till then as was youngest and house was empty by that stage.

Grew up in Dublin , went to UCD, could not afford to move out till I had a proper job and then when I got said job, got car and was hardly there anyway. Treated the place like a hotel for a few years, but did my own laundry and cleaning, so was relativly domesticated.

Bit sad in some respects,

Asphyxia

18

I have no regrets and it's incredible being so independent, I do visit the parents for some home cooking the odd time though :rolleyes:

cutymonalisa

18, college - literally bolted out the door to the big schmoke

Doylers

Im still here at 19, aiming for 22 when I finish college

Dravokivich

24... had been trying to find a place to move out to for abojt a year before, but never got round to it. work re-located to somewhere tgat the commute was to akward to from the folks so moved out then.

meanwhile... had been doing my own laundry since i was 17 and organising most of me own food from about 19/20... so wasnt really all that dependant on the folks instead of a few times between jobs. and they were short stints as they were.

Sunnyisland

17 out, married at 21,
back in ma,s at 45 :-)
out again at 49

There is nothing like your ma.

marzic

18 and went off to college. That was 18 years ago... i is old cnut!:(

deathrider

realies wrote: »

There is nothing like your ma.

Why does everyone keep saying that about my ma? :pac:

horseplay

18, then moved back for two weeks a year later, and that was enough of that

Craebear

14, unhappy story.

23

back home again now but it's a completely different dynamic, both do our own thing

chillywilly

24 and I'm still here! Moving out this summer though

loopyloulilly

19 left for college. Finished college no real job from college. Home again after 5 years. It not bad at all, have my own business sorted

Novella

17. Half for college and half 'cause myself and my mum can't live in the same house.

Fukuyama

chillywilly wrote: »

24 and I'm still here! Moving out this summer though

Congrats on the 2000th post!:eek:

AnonoBoy

realies wrote: »

There is nothing like your ma.

Leave my Ma out of this you!


I moved out at 19.

mojesius

27, back home for the past two years since my Irish return. I could move out but meh. Why leave mammy in a big house only to move in with a stranger in a crapper house or a ****ty apartment when we're both happy enough with the current situation. I'd rather give her the rent.

Ickle Magoo

I left home at 16...moving out not going far enough, I promptly moved about 200km away.

Poor Uncle Tom

25ish, kind of drifted away. I was staying between 3 different places depending on who I was with or where I was when I needed a shower, food or a kip. I was travelling here and there for a month or two at the time as well. I ended up putting down roots where I am now when I was 29....:)...happy days...

chillywilly

Dean0088 wrote: »

Congrats on the 2000th post!:eek:

Cheers Only took me 7 years :eek:

Stained Class

I've seen this thread before & it seems cool to move out as quick as possible.

Well....It's cool if you move out later aswell.

Sometimes better stories there.

s3129

21 .. didnt get on with aul pair, was made move out

wasted a year and a half.. moved home last september for ''6 weeks''

and here i am, using their broadband and eating their toasted cheese sandwiches..

PrincessLola

PROTIP: it doesn't count if your parents pay for your accomadation

squeakyduck

Moved out when I was 18 and moved into student residences. I moved into the first room that I paid for myself at 19 and I've never looked back.

I-Shot-Jr

17. Time flies when you're having unsupervised fun.

Sugar Free

23, one year after finishing university and getting a good job.

I've been home for a couple of months now after a break-up and am moving out again - not a moment too soon!

Mike 1972

18 but returned for varying periods over the years thereafter.

Never got this bringing washing home crack though. Surely its as easy to do it oneself as dragging a large manky bag of stinking clothes onto busses/trains ?

TFK

18, would have been done for murder if I had stayed there any longer.

It's the best thing I ever did.

snickerpuss

23 to shack up with himself. I was goin to UCD or volunteering for free before then so couldn't afford to. Also I quite like my family so I didn't mind. I've moved about 5 minutes away mind, haha.

SoulTrader

17 to go to college. Was great and I've never looked back, but there's no place like home.

psycho-hope

24 and still at home, hope to move out in the next year once i get a fulltime job, still in college at the mo

jc84

Im 23 now moved out when i was 19 to the guesthouse out back, not sure if it counts, still have my dinners cooked an my washing done, best of both worlds

hondasam

left home when I was 17.

previous user

34 and I'm living at home, I blame society.

Daegerty

Today. and then I moved back towards home so I could go in and go to sleep.