When is it time to move out? - Page 4

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    jbergmann1
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    I may be lame for living at home, but for others that have recently moved out of their parents home, when did you know it was time? I’ve been working for 3 years at a small CPA firm. I have been able to save close to 70k but half is in retirement accounts. I’m just worried I won’t be able to save as much which IMO is lamer than living at home.

    Any thoughts?

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    Nutcracker2016
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    Most of the people participated in this thread completed CPA. See how much time you have after taking this BIG burden off from your chest :-).

    #1404627
    ScarletKnightCPA
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    Oh please. I have found that these folks that are criticizing others for living at home after gradating from college usually also at the same time experienced growing up in a well off family, had their parents pay for their college, gift them a car, or offered a graduation gift post college.

    From what I gather, these folks are attempting to justify their life decisions by somehow spinning it as a mark of maturity (yeah right!) by making all these ethnocentric assumptions about the person they are criticizing, such as “Oh, you living at you parents mansion in luxury rather than experiencing suffering of living in an apartment” which only really demonstrates the lifestyle that you experienced and are projecting onto others.

    My opinion… those encouraging others to move out of their parents house as fast and possible usually came from a privileged upbringing. They are now attempting to spin their background as making them better and/or superior when really it just demonstrates the inability to delay gratitude.

    OP, move out when it's best for you. Most cultures and people in the world see nothing wrong with it.

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    Missy
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    Well I encourage moving out. Not a privileged upbringing LOL moved out at 19 after leaving college and never had financial help. Didn't purchase my own home until I was 39 and have no regrets.

    The point that is being missed here is the op ASKED for opinions. So he or she will get different ones, get to evaluate them all and make a decision that's best for him or her. This need to make assumptions about people based on the opinions given are silly. If you think moving out right after college is a bad idea, don't. If you think it's a great idea, do it. If you disagree with someone else's opinion don't apply it to your own life but give it a rest on trying to discredit it.

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    Missy
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    And my “mark of maturity” is that I give here the same advice I give to my own 23 year old son who does, for the record, still live at home with me. I'm not by any means going to force him out but I do tell him being on his own would be good for him and when he's ready I'll support that decision. Very different advice you'd give as a parent of a young adult than the advice you'd give as the peer of one.

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