How old is too older to be?

How old is it too old to be living at your parent's house, i am interested in hearing responses for young adults as well as older adults as i am sure culutral influecence have changed over time.

 

if your not in college 20 is old enough,if your in college,maximum of 1 year after you graduate.

 

I moved out at 16...

 

i find myself agreeing with HH for the second time in a couple of minutes.

i probably would have said 25.

 

yeah i left home a couple months before my sixteenth birthday..

 

it all depends on the situation.

 

P.S. reasons why would also be appreciated.

 

you should seek psychiatric care immediately...

 

It is indeed cultural. In Malaysia, Indonesia, India etc. I have stayed with families and everyone was living in the parents house; children, grandchildren, random other family members etc.

I think you are too old to be living with your parents if one party is not happy with the deal. For some, their 40-year old son is living with the parents and they are fine with it. For others, they want their kids out when they are 18.

I think in Europe we value family more than in America and in Asia they valua family more than in Europe. So natually that means children live longer with their parents in countries that value family more.

 

I moved back to my parents house 4 times after I moved out.

 

i feel like ya gotta get goin sooner or later,may as well hit the ground runnin.. besides by that age we are fed up with ya anyway..

serious,i guess if your paying rent and your part of the groceries and bills then those ages dont apply,but as far as living at home with a free ride thats my age limits..

 

Stay as long as your parents want you there.
But, make sure you are making plans and saving to move out.
Take the oppoerrtunity while it lasts.
If you're in college etc, I think it is acceptable to stay there till you graduate.
What with the cost of living nowadays.
If you are working I'd say stay as long as you possibly can, with the caveates I mentioned earlier.

I got kicked out at 18 but my brother hung on till he was 21.
I guess I was not respecting my parents home at that point.
Treating it like a hotel.
My fault.

 

well, as a person still living home - i do plan on being here for a bit longer. as much as i joke about how the economy isn't going to effect me and such and such....it is really the main reason why i'm not going out on my own yet. its just not cost effective. where as i get stay at home, pay my loans off and save up money for when i do move out.
with the economy going to shit, i see more and more of my friends and aquaintences doing the same thing in that they are already living at home or will be moving back home

 

Well i am at Uni studying psychology so that is cool and i did get a job this week so thats all cool but honestly if i moved out i'd go from having blow around money to barely the essentials... and i'd still have to study.

My parents are totally cool with my staying at home and basically feed me etc. with out complaint but the problem isn't so much their feelings, they're cool.

The problem is that i am a bit of a hermit and dont go out much and i think the independence of being by myself again would be really useful, i dont know whats normal these days.

 

Your just going to end up being a hermit in your own place.
Why make yourself broke for no particular reason?
You say you are going to start work soon.
That'll get you out and about etc.

 

Work didn't get me 'out and about' not like when i was a teenager anyway. YOU think that i'd be a hermit if i was on my own, i'm not so sure one way or another.

 

well it think that until 23 or 25 but i have a friend he is 52 or 53 and still lives with his parents he says its the smart thing because he can do whatever he wants and doesnt need to cook or anything

 

well i know its getting older and older.
i was looking for statistics and was shocked to see these numbers out of Australia..


7th August 2008

More than half the people we old people call "Gen Y" (those born between 1976 and 1991), are continuing to live at home.

so i would say ya aint gotta feel weird about living at home till after ya break 30..

 

Well if i told you why i would still have a problem being at home at 30 that would be a completely different story.

 

I work with a kid (21) he makes the same as me and still lives at home. Makes no sense to me, I loves my parents and was always welcome at home but I didn't wanted to live there when I could afford to move out (moved at 19)