re: When did your Parent(s) inform you to get out of the house?

Wasn’t forced to. I left for college 2 months after high school graduation. I spent one summer back home. Never moved back to live.

I guess it was ok 40-50 years ago that the parents expected a kid to leave at 18.
In the current age, I don’t understand why either the parents or kids wear this as some kind of badge of honor.
Let them stay for a while after college as long as they are trying in some way to be productive and saving money.

Stayed at home through college to save money. After graduating my dad used to debate with me that I wasn’t ready to move out. I believed him for the first 15 or so months before I just moved out one night and said I’ll figure it out

I moved out of my parents house a month after turning 18. Moved out of state 2 months later to go to college and never lived at home again.

You truly learn how to work, be incredibly responsible, and be very careful with your money, when you have no financial help from your parents and no safety net to rely on when you’re 18 and never look back.

Never. Left for college. Sometimes I came home for the breaks, sometimes not.
Still go visit, sometimes spend the night. Not sure the last time I slept there more than a couple nights, hurricanes excluded, but been a couple decades. Probably 04.

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When did your Parent(s) inform you to get out of the house?

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i had good parents and wasn't a POS myself so this never happened

I moved out on my own at 18. They asked me back at 25 when my mom got cancer and she was worried about my dad. Living at home for 2 years was pretty freaking sweet.

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then I would have to pay rent if I wanted to stay at home.

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I get that. I’ve heard several stories like this where the parents put that rent money into a savings account and gave it back to kids later on when they were trying to buy a house and such.

I moved out in August after high school when I started college. Came home the following summer and worked. My parents forgot I was 19 and not a child. Not like I was doing anything nefarious, in fact my little brother had a much more engaging social life that summer than me. Moved back to BR and never came home again for more than a week.

I don’t know how people move back in with their parents. I guess some people can have that type of relationship, but I never did. I’m too independent.

My parents had a rule. Out by either 18 unless you are still in HS then its after graduation. Or if you stayed home you paid rent.

My two siblings moved out after graduating HS. I am 10 years younger and there was different circumstances by the time I graduated. My pops was really sick and had been in and out of the hospital... Mostly in. He passed away right before my second semester of college, but I stayed at home, since my mom was mostly home on only weekends or would come home for a week if my dad was in there for several weeks. However, she made me pay $200 a month...because once you turn 18 nothing is free.

Then my dad passed away, my older siblings were from my mom's previous marriage, my parents bought the house when married so I stopped paying rent, but paid the utilities. My mom laid down the law and she was all for tough love.