10-03-2011, 12:53 PM
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#21
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc
A month after I turned 18. Couldn't wait to get the F outta there.
Why do people wait so long to move out? I always wanted a place of my own to come and go as I pleased with no one to answer to.
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I had that, but it was free.
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10-03-2011, 12:54 PM
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#22
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bluck
I'm really exited (just not at the thought of paying $1000 for rent) but also the thought of coming home to an empty apartment without anyone to say hello to also kinda irks me. How did you guys deal with the whole "being alone" feeling
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You're never alone when your friend Jack is around.
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10-03-2011, 12:55 PM
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#23
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Abbotsford, BC
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I moved out at 21 and lived on my own for a year while I went to university in Abbotsford. But then my parents moved down to Abbotsford and they said I could live with them until I finished my degree. I'm 23 now and I'll be done my degree in December. Then, once I get a good job, I'll be moving out.
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10-03-2011, 12:56 PM
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#24
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Chilliwack, B.C
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22 for me, moved to Burnaby from Calgary
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10-03-2011, 12:57 PM
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#25
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Appealing my suspension
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Just outside Enemy Lines
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I was 20 when I moved out to take a job out of town. My mom to this day would still let me move back home though.
I knew a lot of others my age who never wanted to pay rent a day in their life, made over $20 an hour (in the 90's in BC when that wasn't a ###### bag wage either) but would blow $350 at the bar on a Friday night, and still lived at home. I don't think my Dad would have let that one go. He'd have been pissed I didn't spend that money golfing. In hindsight, it did prepare me though, as trying to make ends meet on $10 an hour taught me to be frugle. Prepared me for a future, of crappy earnings, but still allow me to eat!
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10-03-2011, 12:58 PM
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NOT Chris Butler
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tron_fdc
A month after I turned 18. Couldn't wait to get the F outta there.
Why do people wait so long to move out? I always wanted a place of my own to come and go as I pleased with no one to answer to.
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I think things were a lot different for us. My first place in 91 cost me a whopping $300/mth including heat/cbl/water. Even though I was making $8.50 an hour driving a forklift, and delivering pizzas for Toms House of Pizza, it still left me some cash to have some fun. Different times.
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10-03-2011, 01:06 PM
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#27
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Calgary
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26. I decided I wasn't going to waste my money paying someone else's mortgage so it took me that long to make the 20% down payment after buying my first car after graduating university. In hindsight I shouldn't have spent so much on my car.
21 if you count the first time I moved away for internship for a year and half.
Last edited by FlameOn; 10-03-2011 at 01:09 PM.
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10-03-2011, 01:09 PM
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#28
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Franchise Player
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I was 20 when I moved out and was making just over $9/h. Now days there's no way in hell you could survive off that, but when I moved out it was a renter's market.
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10-03-2011, 01:13 PM
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#29
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Lifetime Suspension
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Went away for Uni (also Australian, apparently) moved out after several months at home upon my return. So I was 22? Maybe 23. But had not "lived at home" since 18 and going away for school.
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10-03-2011, 01:14 PM
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#30
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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Not ashamed to admit, I didn't move out till I was almost 29, and saved 20% for downpayment on my house.
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10-03-2011, 01:22 PM
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#31
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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24 when I left for grad school - my parents gave me free room and board while I was doing my B.Sc. so I would've been crazy to pass that up. Briefly moved back at 26 while looking for a job and for a month when I was 30 because the condo I had bought wasn't finished on time but the lease on my apartment was up, but those times I couldn't wait to get out (even though my parents let me have my space/privacy) since I was too used to being on my own.
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10-03-2011, 01:27 PM
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#32
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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Originally Posted by bluck
Heyy everyone I recently graduated university last year and just turned turned 23 years old a couple weeks ago. Now that I have a stable job im moving out Nov 1!. Pretty big change for me. Anyways just curious to know when some of CP moved out of there parents' house. What age were you when you moved out? Any advice?
Bluck
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I moved out at 17 to go to college.
Not only should you move out, but move far enough away that they can't get to you without at least a six hour drive. Remove yourself from their influence and become your own person.
Having said that, statistic of the day, 80% of Italian males under 30 years of age live with their parents.
Cowperson
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10-03-2011, 01:46 PM
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#33
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Supporting Urban Sprawl
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Moved out at 20, then back in at 28, for a year or so when my dad died to help my mom out.
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10-03-2011, 01:48 PM
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#34
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Winebar Kensington
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At 19, I drove from Calgary to UWO, around the north shore of Lake Superior. Never went that way again.
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10-03-2011, 01:49 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Calgary
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Was able to come and go as I pleased and was fed every day (even had lunches packed for me for work) decided it was a good idea to buy a house and move out. Still miss the free rent and good food.
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10-03-2011, 01:49 PM
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#36
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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First year of College was 2 months after I turned 18 so then, but I then lived at home for a few summers while saving up for school, last year I officially lived at home for any length of time was age 21.
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10-03-2011, 01:52 PM
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#37
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Moved acrss the country for university at the age of 17 and never moved back.
I have a couple friends my age(25) that are out of school, making good money and still living at home. Blows my mind.
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10-03-2011, 01:53 PM
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#38
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Calgary.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bluck
I'm really exited (just not at the thought of paying $1000 for rent) but also the thought of coming home to an empty apartment without anyone to say hello to also kinda irks me. How did you guys deal with the whole "being alone" feeling
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By cooking whatever I want, cleaning whenever I want, listening to what I want, etc, etc, etc.
Seriously - living alone is an amazing thing.
Don't feel like wearing pants? Don't!
Wanna listen to Radio Albania? Go for it!
Curious to see if you can cook a curry? Give it a whirl!
Wanna bring home a "Less than lovely" without ridicule? No problem!
It's a great life. If you're lonely, call a friend.
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10-03-2011, 01:59 PM
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#39
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WilsonFourTwo
By cooking whatever I want, cleaning whenever I want, listening to what I want, etc, etc, etc.
Seriously - living alone is an amazing thing.
Don't feel like wearing pants? Don't!
Wanna listen to Radio Albania? Go for it!
Curious to see if you can cook a curry? Give it a whirl!
Wanna bring home a "Less than lovely" without ridicule? No problem!
It's a great life. If you're lonely, call a friend.
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10-03-2011, 01:59 PM
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In Your MCP
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Watching Hot Dog Hans
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I think I have a totally different idea of "do what I want" than some of you.
Doing what I want included
- heavy drinking 5 nights a week
- multiple girlfriends
- weed
- sleeping in until noon
- barely holding a job
- letting anyone I met crash on the floor
- smoke cigarettes in my underwear
Even doing one of the above when I was at home would have had me thrown out.
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