[sphinx]

What you are doing makes perfect sense to me. You're apparently working, saving purposefully, and moving ahead with a life plan. That ain't mooching. If living at home lets you save, great. I hope my daughter has that much sense when she's old enough.

Sure, some kids need to be kicked out of the nest. But given the costs of acceptable housing in the DC area, I'd give the benefit of the doubt to a kid who lived at home provided he was working, saving, and contributing to the household.

[CollegeRepublican]

Yeah, its funny, my parents and I joke about how eventhough I live at home, I am hardly ever there. I work a salaried Engineering job in the DC area that is often more like 50-55 hours a week and then I either go surfing, fishing, or hunting on the weekends. I basically provide my own food and sleep at home during the work week. I would like to say that I want some freedom from my parents or something like that, but we get along fine and they want me to save money until I can put some equity in a decent house. I have several friends that have done or are doing the same thing as I am doing. It just makes finiancial sense.