Steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie never left home. He was 50, and the 2nd richest man in the world, when his mom died. A year later he married Miss Louise Whitfield.

I fist moved out when I was 18. However, when i was 20, I was in a car accident and could not work, and so I moved back in with my parents for a year while i recovered, and then moved back out again at 21.

Moved out at 17 for college, but still semi-dependend as part of my still came from my parents.
Fully independent at 23

I slacked massively! 23 When my dad retired from his Navy career and moved back to the Midwest, I aimlessly tagged along. Plugged along sort of depressed and with no plans for five more years.

In retrospect I should have stayed in college in Virginia at ODU. I think keeping up with friends would have kept me on course and motivated.

Luckily I was the easy kid and always got along with my folks. Zip conflicts.

I was 18. Moved away to college. My son who is now 18 has also moved away to college. Hopefully my 15 year old will do the same.

I was 18.

I lived at my parents' place summers from age 18-20. At 21, I got my own place permanently.

Around 18 or 19. Went to work and had good jobs to support myself so never had to move back.

I went away to college when I was 18, but then I was back home dealing with personal setbacks where I couldn't take care of myself for some time. When I was able to get my life together I moved out in my early 30's and was fine for a while before having other setbacks, including a chronic illness, where I couldn't live on my own... I'm very grateful my parents could help me out, and have no shame in it... Ironically, I'm also the first and only person in my family to have lived alone, everyone else moving in with a spouse or partner, so none of them know or understand the challenges of that.

Went to college at 16 - my first time to drive on an interstate highway was when I drove myself to college ! I worked at college - and this included weekends so never moved back.

Depends on what you mean by "move out." I went to college when I was 18 and lived in the dorms. Spent my breaks and summer vacations at my parents' place. When I was 22 I graduated college, spent the summer living with my parents, and then headed out to Colorado to attend a different school. Lived with friends and/or my gf in Colorado for four years. At age 26 I returned to Iowa from Colorado after graduating school. I lived with my parents again for a bit over a year and then moved out and haven't been back since

Too late. But the Conservative government (and continued by Tony Blair) introduced a Right to Buy scheme, giving social housing tenants the opportunity to buy their own property - at a snip.

Crucially these social housing properties were not replaced. Two million social housing properties are missing.

My parents had a different experience. In their day putting your name on a council waiting list was enough to guarantee the offer of a property. Those days of Democratic Socialism are long gone.

I'm ashamed to say that some of my relatives bought their council house and sold it on for a profit.

I left at 21 to join the military, and I just left again at 37. Life is a rollercoaster

Left home at 18. Never regretted it ?

I moved out at 17 and have been making mistakes ever since.

I was a fuckup
i was over 21...

About 18. I think my folks were eager to get me out as they persuaded me that it'd be easier to get to college if I lived in student accommodation..... Umm — my college was in the same town we already lived in, and less than a bloody mile away! ?

But 21 is a perfectly good age to move out, I don't think you exactly hung around.

Think I was around 23. Couldn't afford it before that. It only happened though as my now wife made it happen.