Mise
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Oh yeah, if I don't go to the gym or play football that day, then I just eat cereal for dinner... It's like brinner, except not as good.
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Abaddon
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You still live at home? I thought you were in your mid 30's ?
Holycannoli
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There are people in their 40s around here who still live "at home". I have two neighbors in their mid 40s right across the street who still live with a parent or parents. One has a son of her own. New Jersey is brutally expensive (highest property taxes in the country) and this area is particularly expensive. A $300,000 home around here is a small two-bedroom house with almost no property. Average apartment rent is roughly $1500/month unless you want to live in the ghetto.
Just across the border in Pennsylvania $300,000 can buy you a small McMansion.
It sucks but hey you do what you gotta do around here. It's either that or try to find work in a cheaper state.
I live with my brother and his wife myself. Picture uncle Jesse's situation in "Full House" (not Joey, I don't even know where he slept. Jesse had an upstairs apartment). I can't afford my own apartment around here by myself and I'm not willing to take on roommates like my other brother did. I'd rather give my brother some money and enjoy watching my little nephew grow up than spend most of my money on an apartment. I'd rather live here and save...for now. I'm not picky, and this situation is allowing me to put a decent chunk of change away.
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Well you're never going to get laid when you still with your parents. I'm nearing 25 and realise how sucky the situation could be just by being back with my parents for two weeks!
I value my independence higher than saving money on rent and utilities.
I value my independence higher than saving money on rent and utilities.
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I thought classical_hero is waiting to get married (to one of the women in the babe thread probably) before doing any jiggy jiggy/bunga bunga party stuff.
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Mmm I must say (and I hate to agree with him yet again) I can't stand the idea of being with my parents permanently - maybe some people have a stronger relationship with theirs than I do - but I usually find we get into silly squabbles over nothing and step on eachothers toes. Plus I like the feeling of having 'my own space' which I pay for, I'll live with other people who have the same, but just not my parents
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My Mum drives me nuts after about a week. She's got skype now so can call me for free whenever the internet connection is good enough (not very often in Northern Cyprus, luckily 
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If I could afford a house I would have bought one by now, but I just don't make enough money to buy one and it is getting that way for many people here. House prices are high here, since they did not fall like they did in other areas of the world.
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My Mum drives me nuts after about a week. She's got skype now so can call me for free whenever the internet connection is good enough (not very often in Northern Cyprus, luckily
My mother drives me mad after about a DAY. Being asked what I'm doing 20 times a day is not pleasant. I like attention, but not THAT much attention. Even my Dad admits it would be a nightmare if I came home!
Abaddon
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Why not rent and share? I love communal living..
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Yeah, when I said a week I meant "about a couple of hours".
I don't want to be asked whether I want a biscuit every 5 minutes.
I don't want to be asked whether I want a biscuit every 5 minutes.
Boundless
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Welcome to my life (well, until Monday!). And when I say no, it's followed by 'Why not? What have you eaten today? I don't think you're eating enough. Do you want a piece of cake?'
Abaddon
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They keep placing bits of fruit next to me as i'm here on the laptop... I swear i've eaten so much in the last two weeks i'm turning into a fruit salad!
Mise
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I've been living with my parents since mid-Feb and I'm about to go postal...
And yeah, I have to try REALLY hard not to put on weight with all the chocolates and cakes and stuff my mum keeps trying to feed me! #firstworldproblems
And yeah, I have to try REALLY hard not to put on weight with all the chocolates and cakes and stuff my mum keeps trying to feed me! #firstworldproblems
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Yeah, but I am 39, and I know where the biscuits are if I want one. I'm also getting a bit chubby.
Maybe your Mum is worried about your eating habits after that story you posted in some other thread
Maybe your Mum is worried about your eating habits after that story you posted in some other thread
Boundless
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It happened just now. JUST NOW. Ending in me saying, 'Why do you incessantly follow me around the house?'
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, a lemon is not one of the fruits placed in front of me, nor is it a regular constituent of a fruit salad
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Lemon juice is though (to stop the apples going brown) - you lemon!
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I've been laid plenty in my life, and my priorities have shifted drastically since my 20s. Sex is just not a driving force for me anymore. I probably have low testosterone levels now; I'm more interested in an intimate relationship with a woman than a purely sexual one, and I'm not driven to seek one so strongly like I used to be.
I've also lived with roommates and it sucked. I'm not a communal liver unless it's family. To me it's not worth having roommates just so I can claim I have "my own place" (which you don't if you have roommates). My other brother is now stuck in that same situation I was in, not liking having roommates but having no choice, but unlike me he declined my brother's offer to take the upstairs apartment and I jumped at it. I may not have "my own place" in the same sense, but I do have money put away which will come in handy when this economy turns around, and I have an excellent relationship with my 2 year old nephew who can't get enough of his "uncle Ra-Ra".
(I love kids but have none of my own, so there's no way I'm giving this up right now)
EDIT: Mind you all, I live with my brother and his family, my younger brother - I am oldest. This is nothing like living with parents. It really feels like the show "Full House" except for the widower thing.
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