How did you move out?

AngelicxAnnihilation
AngelicxAnnihilation Posts: 336 Member
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I'm looking to move soon and I'm looking for the best way to do it while attending school or college.. What did you do? Rent with friends, go on your own?
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  • LonLB
    LonLB Posts: 1,126 Member
    Rent with friends/roomates.

    It SUCKS but at least it's cheaper that way.



    Or find a really skeevy single room that someone is sharing as part of their apartment and hope you don't get killed or raped.



    Or forget about any kind of a life, and work as much as it takes to make rent. (This is the ramen noodle budget route)




    Renting with friends and roomates won't be what you have it built up to be in your head. Most likely.
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    On my own. I had my 3yo son and it was time to go. I'd just met & married hubby so I was out as fast as I could. I managed to find this hole of a place that didn't have a kitchen (had to take my own stove) and didnt even have a kitchen sink (wash dishes in the bathroom sink). It was one bedroom, one lounge/kitchen (yeah if you could call it that) and the bathroom.

    I had to have my washing machine outside by the front (only) door & as far as room for a fridge..... yeah in the only storage room there was.

    $80 a week it was costing me, stayed there 5 years.


    DO NOT MOVE INTO A PLACE LIKE THAT. It was a bungalow out the back of another house. No separate elec, no gas at all, no separate water. The owners stole my mail (locked the letterbox & didn't give me a key) and they were filthy pigs.
  • pudadough
    pudadough Posts: 1,271 Member
    If you would have to consider welfare, you shouldn't consider moving at all. Sorry, that peeves me.


    I moved in with two other girls. One roommate was awesome, one was a nightmare. We shared utilities and other things three ways, so it was doable. This was when I was pretty young, though. I live alone now and wouldn't have it any other way.
  • LonLB
    LonLB Posts: 1,126 Member
    Agree with the above post.

    Assistance is for those who were managing ok then **** hit the fan, and they need a little help to right the ship. You never MAKE A DECISION TO USE IT!
  • SquidandWhale
    SquidandWhale Posts: 259
    Welfare was an option in college?!?

    I lived on campus the first year, and rented a townhouse in a sketchy part of the city with my boyfriend and five other people in the consecutive years. Due to the volume of people, and lack of gentrification of the area, it was within my means. I worked 30 hours a week at a coffee shop, and picked up some bar tending gigs on the side, while maintaining a full course load. Looking back, I'm glad for the struggle because it made me self-sufficient, but damn was it stressful and god-awful 75% of the time. I spent a lot of time stress crying in my university's libraries because I didn't have the privacy to do it at home.
  • AngelicxAnnihilation
    AngelicxAnnihilation Posts: 336 Member
    I don't know a lot about welfare, I just kind of put it in there because I know a friend who's using it to pay for her expenses..

    You guys make it sound like renting with people has been a nightmare xD In my head I want my own place but will I have enough to support myself is the question :P
  • Simone_King
    Simone_King Posts: 467 Member
    I didn't move out. To this day I still live with my parents as I work and go to college.

    I say save your money. Stay home.
  • celtbell3
    celtbell3 Posts: 738 Member
    Take on a roommate and make sure that roommate is similiar in tastes to your own --- this may help to alleviate issues in the future (men, money, and friends). Don't consider public assistance - please.
  • MrsSenecal
    MrsSenecal Posts: 312 Member
    I'm looking to move soon and I'm looking for the best way to do it while attending school or college.. What did you do? Rent with friends, welfare, go on your own?

    That welfare option shouldnt even be in there unless you absolutely NEED it. I had to re-read that a couple times to believe that you put that on there as a option.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    You're 19. Very few 19-year-old students have their own place. Get an apartment with some friends, live in co-op housing, or live on campus. Maybe you can get a single room or live in a private dorm. Otherwise, live with your parents for a year, save whatever money you can manage, and maybe next year, you'll have enough of a cushion from your savings that you can get your own place.
  • ken_hogan
    ken_hogan Posts: 854 Member
    I joined the Navy.
  • RonnieLodge
    RonnieLodge Posts: 665 Member
    When I left home as an 18 year old (who was working full time), I moved in with some people I had met in a bar 3 weeks beforehand.

    But if you are still studying, I'll tell you what I told my little sister - STAY AT HOME AS LONG AS POSSIBLE WHILE YOU ARE STUDYING.

    You want to get the best grades you can and this will be the last time in your life you can focus on something like that without having the added stress of working,budgeting, paying bills, doing all your own washing, cleaning and cooking.
  • tanashai
    tanashai Posts: 207 Member
    When I moved out, I lived in student housing on campus for one year, but I was very fortunate in that my parents helped to pay for it. After that year, I moved in with my then boyfriend (now husband) and we lived with a woman who owned her house (gahhh!), then we moved into her basement suite until I graduated and we discovered I was pregnant. After that, we bounced around the city and we always had roommates, but they were family (my sister in law, my mother in law and youngest brother in law, and now my sister and my close friend who is practically family). It's kind of rough not having our own space all the time I guess, but it's also nice to always have a babysitter on hand and to have company :)
  • postrockandcats
    postrockandcats Posts: 1,145 Member
    I rented with friends for a year before moving out on my own. I'd have moved sooner if I hadn't been in a lease and had money to move. It was skinnier money-wise living on my own, but my roomies drove me up a wall. Stolen food, toiletries (to the point where I had to keep my shampoo and soap in my locked bedroom), sketchy visitors (bonus: found out later that one sketchy guest was eventually convicted of possessing child porn. Pure class.), bounced rent checks and I was the only one who cleaned.

    Not everyone has crap roomie experiences and it can be a great experience! Just know who you're moving in with. I knew them but thought that they'd have pride in their home. My own fault there, but live and learn :)
  • vjohn04
    vjohn04 Posts: 2,276 Member
    I lived in student housing (on campus dorms) until I graduated, and then closed on my condo right before graduation and moved straight in.
  • MrsSenecal
    MrsSenecal Posts: 312 Member
    I joined the Navy.

    Right on! Thank you for your service!
    edited because I cant type!
  • carlaunderconstruction
    carlaunderconstruction Posts: 158 Member
    If you find the right roommate it can be one of the best experiences of your life, especially if you are both serious college students. I had a great roomie in college, and it was nice to live with another student. My last year of undergrad I moved in with my bf, and while I love living with my bf I have to say it sucked while I was working and going to school, and he was just working.
    I would suggest make a budget to start, and plan to have an emergency fund within that budget. That's how you will know if you can move.
  • lizzzylou
    lizzzylou Posts: 325
    I didn't move out. To this day I still live with my parents as I work and go to college.

    I say save your money. Stay home.

    This! If I could do over I'd do this....I just think about all the money I could've saved :sad:
  • SquidandWhale
    SquidandWhale Posts: 259
    I don't know a lot about welfare, I just kind of put it in there because I know a friend who's using it to pay for her expenses..

    You guys make it sound like renting with people has been a nightmare xD In my head I want my own place but will I have enough to support myself is the question :P

    I don't have a problem renting with others--I actually have a renter in my home who pretty much covers my mortgage--but to get it where you can afford it (and this largely depends on the cost of living in your area), you sometimes have to rent with a lot of people. Living with a lot of people, especially if they aren't similarly minded, can be stressful. I was soooo excited to move in with everyone that first year; however, after the sheen of newness wore off, little things started to annoy me, just as certain behaviors of mine were annoying to others.
  • ken_hogan
    ken_hogan Posts: 854 Member
    I joined the Navy.

    Right on! Thank you for your service!
    edited because I cant type!

    Was in 4.5 years but got out of it what I wanted. 2 years stationed overseas and spend some time on a carrier....
  • AngelicxAnnihilation
    AngelicxAnnihilation Posts: 336 Member
    Thanks so much, these are all really great ideas. While I know staying with my parents would be the cheapest, it's just hard to do so as I find my parents intolerable (like I'm sure everyone does). I have no privacy due to my mothers medical conditions and can never find anything because she's always into my stuff. It's just time to leave lol..

    @Ken, Right on for joining the Navy! It's sounds like you've had a good experience!
  • ken_hogan
    ken_hogan Posts: 854 Member
    Thanks so much, these are all really great ideas. While I know staying with my parents would be the cheapest, it's just hard to do so as I find my parents intolerable (like I'm sure everyone does). I have no privacy due to my mothers medical conditions and can never find anything because she's always into my stuff. It's just time to leave lol..

    @Ken, Right on for joining the Navy! It's sounds like you've had a good experience!
    Thanks!! I'm sure that probably wasn't the answer you were looking for but had to throw it in :wink:
  • Amyann44
    Amyann44 Posts: 24 Member
    At 18, I moved out on my own. Found a very affordable cute studio. Loved it!!
  • kmhenry84
    kmhenry84 Posts: 96 Member
    I didn't move out. To this day I still live with my parents as I work and go to college.

    I say save your money. Stay home.

    This! If I could do over I'd do this....I just think about all the money I could've saved :sad:

    Yup.. Stay at home.. Wish I could do it again.
    Take the money you would be spending on rent, and put it into a savings account. Grin and bear with your parents. If you can save up enough money to cover for 6 months worth of rent and utilities, consider it then. Other than that, just keep yourself busy, and look at it as a place to lay your head at night.
    Wait until you are done with school and have a good paying job to move out.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    I don't know a lot about welfare, I just kind of put it in there because I know a friend who's using it to pay for her expenses..

    You guys make it sound like renting with people has been a nightmare xD In my head I want my own place but will I have enough to support myself is the question :P

    Yeah, renting with others can be a pain. Or not, all depends on who you rent with. We all would have liked to live on our own by you gotta do what you gotta do and for many, that means renting with others.
    I also think its a learning experience. Eventually most people will end up sharing a house with someone, it's not a bad idea to learn ways to deal and what your deal breakers are early.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    I had to live in a dorm the first two years. College rules. No living off campus unless you were a townie. Or I'd have lived at home and just made the 25-minute drive twice a day. No such thing as co-ed dorms, floor monitors making sure we had no men in our rooms. This was 1968, dears.
  • Emisole
    Emisole Posts: 65
    First time around, parents partially paid for an apartment while I went to college for a year.

    Second time around, I joined the Air Force. Haha.
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    Thanks so much, these are all really great ideas. While I know staying with my parents would be the cheapest, it's just hard to do so as I find my parents intolerable (like I'm sure everyone does). I have no privacy due to my mothers medical conditions and can never find anything because she's always into my stuff. It's just time to leave lol..

    @Ken, Right on for joining the Navy! It's sounds like you've had a good experience!

    I moved out the second I graduated high school because I wanted my own rules. With that comes responsibility. I'm going to school in the fall, full time 18 hours and working 50+ hours a week running a store. It's crazy and busy but I love doing what ever I want, whenever the **** I want.
  • Madame_Goldbricker
    Madame_Goldbricker Posts: 1,625 Member
    I moved out at 19 when I had my daughter. Worked 25+ a week (shifts), & attended college. Thank god for a great childminder & had some childcare support from family. Moved into a 2 floor up dive that my friend had moved out of, & another friend moved into after I moved out lol Must have been like some rite of passage thing!.. Definately live at home for as long as you can & save some cash. If thats not an option then I'd share with ppl, as when the "REAL" cost of living hits home it doesn't half hurt :laugh:
  • Tamm04
    Tamm04 Posts: 182 Member
    Got married, family packed my stuff while I was on my honeymoon, and they drove it 800 miles away to where I was going to live with hubby (we later moved back to my home state).

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