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How Did You Leave Home? What Age?

Posted on 10/30/2013 12:22:29 AM PDT by jy8z

At what age and how did you decide to leave the safety and comfort of your parents home? I've heard so many interesting takes locally, it got me to wondering on a larger scale.


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To: jy8z

graduated at 17 from HS...went to college...lived with parents in the summer in those years.

moved out for good when I was 19.


81 posted on 10/30/2013 5:53:46 AM PDT by QualityMan (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: jy8z

24 years old. My father was forced into retirement due to his age and the parents had to sell the house and move elsewhere. I had a job....found an attic apartment and have been going along on my own ever since then.


82 posted on 10/30/2013 5:57:53 AM PDT by midnightcat
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To: jy8z

bump for later.


83 posted on 10/30/2013 6:02:00 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If global warming exists I hope it is strong enough to reverse the Big Government snowball)
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To: jy8z

I was 18 and had graduated High School 10 days prior and was on my way to RTC/NTC San Diego CA for United States Navy Boot Camp.


84 posted on 10/30/2013 6:02:43 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: jy8z

Four days after my 18th birthday, I went to boot camp at Great Lakes, IL.


85 posted on 10/30/2013 6:10:05 AM PDT by stbdside
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To: sauron

I went in the Guard at 17, Went to basic at Ft. Knox, then to Ft. Sam Houston. Came home for a couple of months, when my father died at 51 years of age. I worked and found my wife when I was 20, we married and moved to the Washington suburbs. So I guess I really moved out at 20,when I married.


86 posted on 10/30/2013 6:12:47 AM PDT by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: ItsOurTimeNow
I can’t help but wonder what the responses would be to this question on a DU thread...lol
What? I'm supposed to move out of my parent's house? /s
87 posted on 10/30/2013 6:14:56 AM PDT by jimmango
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To: jy8z

Left when I was 12 to work in the coal mines of Virginia. At 15 I was packing dynamite in hillsides while suspended from cables to clear the way for a new dam. At 16 I was carrying buckets of red hot rivets and welding I-beams in place 120 floors up in Dubai. At 17 I was packing plutonium into hydrogen bombs for the department of defense. At 30 I moved back into my parent’s basement and got a job at Walmart in housewares.

Or something like that.


88 posted on 10/30/2013 6:21:25 AM PDT by Drawsing (Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
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To: jy8z
Graduated from HS in June 66, 18 y/o.

Shipped out to Parris Island Sept 66 with 4 friends, (we all survived Nam), met up with my father in Sept 68 in Nam, came home in Jun69, married my beloved, went to school, and never looked back.

Now 65, and find myself going to DC to defend the monuments, and schooling my congressman on the Constitution and the proper role of government.

In God We Trust.......Semper Fi

89 posted on 10/30/2013 6:21:50 AM PDT by North Coast Conservative (God created man, Sam Colt made them equal)
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To: jy8z

17. Went off to college (paid 1/2 of the cost myself). Only home for a few days here and there (holidays). Mother sold the house and moved to Florida during my junior year, so there was no going back home anyway at that point.


90 posted on 10/30/2013 6:31:10 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: jy8z

Finished the seventh grade at 15 left home at 16, had three older brothers who was already gone before they were 14 but the came and went.


91 posted on 10/30/2013 6:36:54 AM PDT by ravenwolf
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To: jy8z
3 days after HS graduation, at 18. Returned only to visit.
92 posted on 10/30/2013 7:01:07 AM PDT by zlala (Thank you for the ultimate sacrifice Capt. Aaron R. Blanchard, KIA 4-23-13, Pul-E-Alam, Afghanistan.)
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17 1/2, 1951 Enlisted June 1951, retired August 1975..started new career as LPN and Later RN and retired in 2003..Now managing a meat goat ranch in CA. I never looked back or second guessed any of my decisions, now I am a widower with 3 adult children, all in non military careers, Military Motto, KEEP ON KEEPING ON

AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY

Cold Flamingo

93 posted on 10/30/2013 7:57:34 AM PDT by coldflamingo (Old Paratrooper/Nam Vet/Retired SFC USArmy)
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To: jy8z

Left home at 17 1/2. 1978. went to work on a fishing boat and have never been in need of anybody’s money. : )


94 posted on 10/30/2013 8:10:17 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
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To: jy8z

A year after high school, I told my mother that I wanted to get an apartment and strike out on my own.

She cried. “I’m being a bad mother,” and suchlike. Hmm.

Two weeks later, I announced that I wanted to enlist in the U.S. Air Force. She was delighted. Hmm.


95 posted on 10/30/2013 8:14:25 AM PDT by DNME (Something wicked this way comes ...)
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Parents divorced when I was 1.5. Mom died on my 8th birthday. Step father didn't trust anyone under 18 worth a spit. (saw a thrown out McDonalds bag on the highway and naturally it musta been KIDS that through it out there ;().

Got tired of his mistrust and left home at 18 but with 6 months to go before graduation. Grad was hardest thing I ever did. Knew I HAD to finish high school but was working for 1.87/hr at a movie theatre as an usher. GF thoughts I was nuts, but that's ok, she dropped me like I was a red hot rock someone put in her hand a few months later when I enlisted in the navy and she didn't like the idea. (still rankles 40 years later :( )

SO enlisted in the navy 2 days after my HS prom cause I'd blown every dollar I had on prom and did 4 years. But that got my GI bill bennies and got me a computer science degree which I parlayed into a 30 year career as a professional computer consultant.

Married 40 yrs, 4 kids, 3 gkids who are the heart of my life.

Unfortunately, pneumonia took away my lungs for the most part so I'm disabled now and have to sit at home and move minimally but still do computer stuff. It's the real love of my life :)

Godspeed all. You're all inspiring!

96 posted on 10/30/2013 8:30:30 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (OCare: 500 million lines of code (it took just 500 thousand lines of code to send a rover to Mars))
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To: jy8z

This would be the ultimate funny thread on a liberal loser website! Anyone want to post one like it over on the losers website? ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!


97 posted on 10/30/2013 8:33:57 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
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To: jy8z

After 4 years of freedom at college I moved back home and got a job. Soon my Dad was talking to me about the hours I kept so I decided it was time to leave the nest. We were best friends after that.


98 posted on 10/30/2013 8:49:08 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: jy8z

19 except for a brief time while my dad was terminal. Moved back out a month after he passed. That was in the early 80’s.


99 posted on 10/30/2013 8:56:46 AM PDT by SargeK
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To: jy8z

Joined the Navy at 17. Did 20 years. Now I’m stuck in middle management hell. I have a great Faith in Jesus and an awesome family. Life is good today.


100 posted on 10/30/2013 9:08:01 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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