For those who may not know, and as embarrassing as it is to admit, I have been living at my parents place for the past eight and a half months. As a 23 year old who originally moved out to attend college at 17, this is really not cool. I love my mom and dad, and the house is really great. However, the location is awful.
23 years ago when I was just a few months old, my family and I moved to a newly built house in Dorchester, Ontario. I grew up in that house my entire life. I went to school in Dorchester, played sports in Dorchester, had most of my friends in Dorchester. My life was basically zoned in on this small town. When I got my licence, my life started to spread out a bit more towards London. When I left for college, my horizons really started to expand as I was meeting people from all over Ontario and even the world.
In March of this year, I made the very hard decision to move back home. I had piled up some debt, and needed some grounding before I could get my feet back under me. I’m so appreciative of my parents who no matter what have always been there for me. My dad walked me through getting my debt paid off (I will be debt free in the next month or two). I’ve learned to live on a very lean budget (at least compared to how I had been living) and have realized the necessity to save and plan out a strategic personal budget.
Yet, while this whole living at home experience has been great, I have this feeling that I can’t seem to shake. Even though I don’t have many rules at home, I feel a lack of independence. Also, I am very dependent on my car, which if I didn’t need, would save me close to $400-500 a month in insurance, gas, and repairs.
I would really love to find a cheap bachelor pad close to downtown (preferably North of Dundas and West of Adelaide) where I can really have my own stuff, my own place to call home. A place where I can invite friends over for drinks and a game, or to watch a movie, or just to hang out and chat. I’ve started to get more into cooking, and would love to be able to have a few friends over for dinner.
So, while living at home has been so amazing and helpful, at the same time I would really love to move on.
