Me too, however, all our kids ages 19, 21, and 22 are all still at home. They just can’t seem to cut the cord from mamma.

I’ve never liked bologna

Air Force at 18..

went off to college at 17,never went back...was raised in small town in east Tenn....not many jobs so had to go elsewhere....

Stayed at my folks house the summer after my freshman year in college. After that I was either in summer school at UT or in Vietnam with the US Army and 500K+ of my closest friends. When I got home from Nam I spent one week at home, found an apartment and left for good.

Off to college at 17. Left college a couple years later to join the USAF. Did finish the degree before I retired from the military. Parents actually moved to a new house/town a month before I graduated from high school and didn't sell the house until a month or so later, so I was living there alone for the last month of high school.

I moved out at 17, a month before I graduated from HS in 1975. Dad gave me his last "My House, My Rules" speech. But my best friends youngest daughter still lives at home with them after graduating 4 years ago with a law degree. The problem is her $250,000 in student loans. She is paying them off and plans to move out when she is debt free. Sooner or later the expense of putting someone through college will have to be addressed. It shouldn't be just for the wealthy or those lucky enough to get a scholarship. I worked full time and it took me 8 years to graduate, but I did it debt free. No way could I do that today.

19 but not my choice, my folks moved to a different state and I had a girlfriend I "loved" so I could not move with them. Broke up 3-4 months later and I could not stomach going back to my folks house.

My son is 22 and lives at home, I told him we will only pay for college if he lives at home to save cash. UNT is 25 minutes away. He is chompin at the bit to leave though.

This was me also. Had a job waiting on me that I had to be at the next Monday.

Left at 17. Came back for a few months after about a year of traveling the state and country. Left again at 19 for good.

I haven’t lived at my parents house since I was 18.

Enrolled at UT in Austin at 17yo (started kindergarten in Asia at 4yo, so a year ahead)
Parents moved to Jakarta, Indonesia when I was 19yo; then to Bahrain when I was 26yo
They didn’t return to the USA until I was 40.

14.............Broken home and Family , joined the Marines

Left home at 21.

Stayed home while commuting to college, then left to move to Pennsylvania for grad school at 21.