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This is pretty much it. I'm in the my mid 20's and have been working full time since graduating college and I don't see the need to live on my own until I get married or some extenuating circumstances pop up before then.Some cultures, you don't move out til you are married. It's a way of saving your money to spend it on what really matters. Your future family. Not wasting money that could have bought land, house and take care of things on apartments and leases. That money is gone forever and you can't get it back.
You have no idea how many older people I work with that say stuff like,
"If I hadn't wasted so much money on apartments, clothes,doing what I thought people my age should be doing, I coulda had everything I wanted by 30"
My parents own their house so I pay the utility bills as a form of "rent". I'd much rather help my parents out then paying some landlord who doesn't give 2 ***** about me.
My mother needed some dental work done and it cost aroun $1200 in addition to what insurance covered. I offered to pay and that made me geniuely happy.
My brother is studying for an MA and will finish with about $17k in student debt. I told him that if he graduates and finds a full time job, I'll pay that off for him. Again, that would make me very happy.
My parents certainly don't need my money but I just see it as the less they spend now, the more they have when they retire.
I can live on my own but what would be the point? I'd just be flushing money down the toilet and that would be irresponsibly vis-a-vis my obligation to helping out my family at present or in the future. If my family needed financial help and I couldn't give it to them because I spent it living on my ow when I didn't need to then that would be a pretty ****** excuse.
I realize that not everyone is fortuante enough to have a family that they get along with or that even wants them there so everyone is different. However, living on your own is very, very overrated. It doesn't signal anything in and of itself. If I made a 100K+ like some of my friends, would I live on my own? Maybe. At that salary I could probably have the best of both worlds. However, I make half that so I can't have my cake and eat it too. I have to choose what's more important.