Did you move out yet?

I've haven't really lived at home in a long time per se. I mean, I live here on the same property as my family but I rent a house from the old man. The first time I left was when I graduated high school in 1997 and moved to Oregon for a year. Then I moved back and stayed until about 2003 when I opened a business with a guy I met in college and I moved to Three Rivers be closer to that job and, for the next 2 and a half years it was party city at my house all the time. In 2006, our business folded and I moved out of my swanky little studio and moved back home for about a year before I moved out in with a friend who was attending college at the time. Lost of fun was had until I had to move back home when we found out my mom was diagnosed with cancer and I wanted to be closer to the family.

For the next year I was the only one doing anything on this property. This was around the time that I learned a lot of cooking from my mom and I cooked all the meals for everyone in our family and did the vast majority of the chores on our property. I also served as my mom's chauffeur pretty much until she was unable to leave her bed. Then she died and, since rent is cheap here ($200/mo for a 1 bed/1 bath and attic), I decided I'm too lazy to move out any time soon and I've been here since. It helps that my family and I have always been close so I don't consider it an ordeal by any stretch of the mind.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Zip

Never understood that taking rents from their kids (unless the family really needs it) and kicking them out shit.

I don't mind pay the old man rent since nobody doesn't like an extra couple hundred a month and, unless I use the house as a meth lab, I doubt he'll kick me out. Plus, we basically treat this place as our personal party pad. Ask Frank. That motherfucker's been here for days on end drunk AND stoned and I've had people sleeping in the patio area. Basically it goes like this: Do what you want, but god help you if you don't clean your fucking mess!

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Originally Posted by Lyth

:/

I'm a 21 year old high school dropout with no job. Still live at home with my parents, never lived away from home for anything more than a week, when I was at my brother's dad's house cleaning it up a bit. I don't pay rent or anything either. Basically, my step-dad would love to get me out of the house, but my mother won't let him kick me out.

Don't get me wrong. I'd love to get my GED, a job, driver's license and car, and get my ass out in the work force, but it's hard to even get the funds to start that little journey when you've never had a job and have no experience...

So, like, how do you eat? How do you have fun? Do you bum cigarettes from bums for fun? I'm not seeing how you even get online.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Alice

Lyth, join the military, dude. It's a job...

Wh... what... I don't even...

Look... The problem with the military as an option is that it's pretty disingenuous in its tactics. Every branch of the military trolls malls and campuses in sub-poverty areas with the ruse of making it rain money for school and "prospects for the future", tell kids that they're basically signing up for supervised paintball on weekends and within six months the poor bastards wind up in Kandahar.

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Originally Posted by Hydra

I left my parents at 17 because it was time to go to college and we weren't technically supposed to be in the country. <.<

... so I went back to my country of citizenship, got a job, went to college, six years later I'm about to graduate with a Master's degree and have visited them four times.

If you don't mind me asking, what was your country of citizenship and where'd you go to school?

I was speaking idiomatically.