HannibalX
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- May 12, 2000
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I completely agree with you. I could not care less what friends or women I was dating said when they found out I lived at home. I stayed with my family until I was 25. I helped with expenses, did chores, drove my mom and grandmother around and helped my dad around the yard etc... I bought a house at 24, rennovated it and then finally moved out at 25. If I had been "forced" to move out at 18 or dumb enough to move out at 18, I would not be in the place where I am today. Wasting money on cheap, dirty ghetto apartments just for the price of freedom was some thing so many ppl I know did. Stupid....
That wasn't my experience at all. I never lived in a crummy apartment, but then again I started working when I was 15, bought my first car at 15 (paid cash with no help) and when I moved out at 18 I had been at my job 3 years, two of them full time and had plenty of money for a nice apartment in a middle-upper class part of town. Not everyone is an imbecile.
I think if you stay at home and do like you did, help your parents, that's fine, you moved out, bought a home, that's awesome but don't assume other people couldn't do the same thing without living at home. I also bought a home young and I never had any "buffer" time.
It all comes down to priorities, responsibility and work ethic. Some people have it, some people don't.