<p>I’m also an only child, and I definitely need the space as well. Fortunately, I was able to stay at home and commute to college, so I haven’t had to deal with dorm issues.</p>
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My family is kind of boring, we don’t drink/smoke, and I have really no desire to go out and party/get drunk. I know what I’m in school for, so I take it sometimes I think more seriously than I should.
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Same here.</p>
<p>You don’t HAVE to leave home, but living close… after a while, it gets annoying at least for me. Sometimes you don’t really feel like an adult because you don’t REALLY have to depend just on yourself, you still have family and parents around close by if you have problems. I am graduating this year, at age 20, but because it is very hard to find a job with just my undergrad degree, I will be taking a year off to just work a normal whatever retail/service job and save up money for grad school for next year, meaning I will STILL be living near home until then…but I can’t WAIT to leave. If I had the means to leave the day after graduating and go somewhere across the country, I would. Fortunately, I will be abroad doing archaeology fieldwork all summer.
But yeah, I have been at this place for far too long! It doesn’t help when you have opposing religious/political ideologies to the majority of people where you live either (I’m agnostic/liberal and I live in Alabama… yeah.)</p>
<p>lmao, i just read ASC’s comment :p</p>