What's it like living on your own for the first time?

[Key2Oblivion 37]

So me and my parents have been talking about what the next few years are going to be like for the family, like moving, me in college, little siblings education, etc. Granted we never really went IN DEPTH with these topics, but still we talk.

 

Anyway, no matter what the topic was my parents always brought up dorming, and each time I kind of started thinking about dorming more. So I started looking at dorms, the only thing is is that my college is a commuter college, there is no ON CAMPUS dorms. All of the students who "dorm" live in housing complexes supplied by the college but they are a good distance away.

 

A friend of mine on the baseball team said that he is actually living in the city in an apartment with his brother, so I looked up apartments around my college and I found one. It's not ridiculously priced(only like 5,000 to rent for 6 months or so) and it's about a 10 min subway ride from the college.

 

I checked it out earlier today and it's nicely sized, so when my parents get home I'm going to talk to them about it. Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone here lives alone, or did at one point. And what is it like?

[Amon 4,279]

I'm not in college yet but I spent a week and a half on my own while my parents and my sister went to see a few concerts in Europe (it was her birthday present).

 

For the first few days it's awesome, you do whatever the hell you want. Raid the fridge, go places where-ever and when-ever you want, play video games non-stop, play with yourself non stop and so on. It's a lot of fun.

 

Then it gets to be a little bit of work. Things that were normally handled by the other members of your household start to pile up. Then you get a little bored as everything you wanted to do has been done.

 

Then you get used to living by yourself and everything is normal.

[Obi-wan 411]

My mom made the deal where I would live with them as long as:

Made good grades

Cooking cleaning, etc

Helped pained for the house

Wasn't being a pain in the ass all the time

 

That's in about five years though so no worries right now for me. If I stay in my advanced class and skipped a grade.

[Lu Xun 2,069]

I don't know because I've never experienced that... But I can say that for me -- at least -- it would be very very hard. In my house, who does like 99% of things is my grandmother... I don't know how I would live without her... The house would be very disorganized, there would be no food (except for fast food which would not do any good for me), and she is the one who cleans everything...

 

I really don't know how I'd live alone..

[Keyblade King 12 486]

This sounds odd, but I went to like a university thing during the summer, basically designed to help you get used to the idea of it. Part of that was living in a dorm.

First of all. Most of the time you're room will be tiny in comparison to what you got now and there's no way everything will fit.

Hope like hell, you get a good roommate, otherwise that can make life difficult.

Take some time every week or fortnight or whatever to just review everything. School, work, how you're doing financially.

And just try to keep your life going as normal, yet organized as you can.

[Key2Oblivion 37]

This sounds odd, but I went to like a university thing during the summer, basically designed to help you get used to the idea of it. Part of that was living in a dorm.

First of all. Most of the time you're room will be tiny in comparison to what you got now and there's no way everything will fit.

Hope like hell, you get a good roommate, otherwise that can make life difficult.

Take some time every week or fortnight or whatever to just review everything. School, work, how you're doing financially.

And just try to keep your life going as normal, yet organized as you can.

 

Well the thing is, is that it would be an apartment, not a dorm. I've spent the night at a few friends' dorms and I know how they are single room things or a "suite" with 6 people, but this would be an actual full 2 bedroom apartment. So I'm not going to be alone COMPLETELY, but it's not going to be what I'm used to.

 

So it also means paying for groceries, cable(I think), internet(I think and my parents would probably pay for that).

[spenskh89 66]

So me and my parents have been talking about what the next few years are going to be like for the family, like moving, me in college, little siblings education, etc. Granted we never really went IN DEPTH with these topics, but still we talk.

 

Anyway, no matter what the topic was my parents always brought up dorming, and each time I kind of started thinking about dorming more. So I started looking at dorms, the only thing is is that my college is a commuter college, there is no ON CAMPUS dorms. All of the students who "dorm" live in housing complexes supplied by the college but they are a good distance away.

 

A friend of mine on the baseball team said that he is actually living in the city in an apartment with his brother, so I looked up apartments around my college and I found one. It's not ridiculously priced(only like 5,000 to rent for 6 months or so) and it's about a 10 min subway ride from the college.

 

I checked it out earlier today and it's nicely sized, so when my parents get home I'm going to talk to them about it. Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone here lives alone, or did at one point. And what is it like?

 

5000?!! It's Cheaper than that where I live man.

[MarluXia777 170]

5000?!! It's Cheaper than that where I live man.

 

It might be in a different currency than where you live.