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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
Yeah, seriously, man. Welcome to adulthood. No, it's not easy. Yes, you have bills to pay, and they HAVE to be paid. But it's so much more satisfying to be on your own and poor than to have Mommy and Daddy pay your bills for you.
I was faced with a similar choice a couple of years ago--stay in town and find a job or move home with my folks, at the cost of my new relationship. I moved in with my boyfriend of 2 weeks and yeah, we were poor for a year or so and it SUCKED, but you deal with it. Trust me, it was worth it to be with him and to be where we are now versus moving home. Plus, I've shown my parents that I have what it takes to 1) be an adult and 2) be independent. They're much more proud of me now than they would be if I had given up and moved home.
Budget your money, and budget your time--do both wisely, and you'll find yourself with more. Eventually things get better, and you have the satisfaction of knowing you did it all on your own.
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Quoted for truth. I was going to say the same thing... Growing up is tough, but everyone has to do it eventually. It took your parents years to establish the kind of lifestyle that they have, and it will take you as many or more years to attain it on your own. But moving back in with them for the purposes of free rent and a fuller social life is a regression.
In 2005, when my husband and I first got engaged, I moved home to live with my parents for the year of our engagement for a number of reasons; the primary one was to pay off my student loans and various credit card debts I had accumulated during college, so that we'd be starting fresh once we got married.
But I did that with full intentions (obviously) of moving back out at the end of exactly one year, which I did. If you can manage a game plan, i.e. "I'll move back in with the 'rents for 1, 2, 5 years until I attain _________ goal," then I can see why moving home would be a good idea. But if you're just going because you're stressed out, tired, poor and you don't get to hang out with your friends as much... welcome to life, bucky. It's not fair, or easy.