At what point did the home your grew up in become a place that wasn't your home anymore?

7/25/2006 12:21:28 PM

after the summer of 2002 - it was the last time i spent more than a week at home i believe

7/25/2006 1:17:09 PM

i'd say around november of 2004

7/25/2006 1:55:53 PM

when they built the winn-dixie on the playground

7/25/2006 2:29:25 PM

August of 1997. That summer was the last time I spent more than a few days in a row there.

7/25/2006 5:08:22 PM

aug 2001, end of the last summer i lived at home.

on second thought:

may 2002, when i moved into my first place. because i still considered my parents house "home" to a certain extent when i was living in the dorms.

[Edited on July 25, 2006 at 5:36 PM. Reason : .]

7/25/2006 5:34:52 PM

June '06: It sorta went from "home" to "y'alls place". Still feel very at home there

7/25/2006 7:54:41 PM

after my first year at away at school (sophmore year)

7/25/2006 8:52:43 PM

i dont have a home, but my stuff is at the parents.....when i finally return to NC i need to figure out where i want to live...

[Edited on July 25, 2006 at 8:54 PM. Reason : w]

7/25/2006 8:53:31 PM

^^it was like halfway through sophmore year for me

7/25/2006 9:20:48 PM

summer of '02 - I stayed in dorms my freshman year and went home for three months the following summer. The next year, I stayed in Raleigh and found a job. After that, there was no way I'd be able to live with my folks again.

7/25/2006 9:35:02 PM

summer of '03


my parents got divorced and sold it

7/25/2006 10:50:52 PM

3 months after high school graduation. fall of 1996.

my folks sold the house i grew up in sometime my sophomore year at state. they gave me a key to the the new house and i was like "what's this for?"

[Edited on July 25, 2006 at 11:25 PM. Reason : .]

7/25/2006 11:22:55 PM

when I was 17 and my parents kicked me out, about two weeks after high school graduation

7/26/2006 9:31:35 AM

spring 2004/junior year...my roommate moved out marking the beginning of me living alone. i was already leaning towards raleigh being more of "home" than my parents house when i moved out of the dorms and into my place with the roommates in 2002--but living alone was the defining moment.

7/26/2006 12:06:37 PM

Summer before my senior year, when my brother stole my bedroom. I did summer school every summer, so I hadn't actually lived there in years, but once I had to stay in the guest bedroom when I came home it just wasn't home anymore.

7/26/2006 7:50:06 PM

January 10. The day I signed my life away to a mortgage company

7/26/2006 9:31:36 PM

Sept of last year... when Dad took a job in Charlotte as well & now my folks have a long-distance 30-yr marriage

7/27/2006 12:50:55 AM

honestly, two years after I left for college. They gave my room away to my little sister and kept a lot of junk/furniture in her old room (which she painted orange).

My parents are still angry that I only spend a day or two at home, but stay at my fiance's parents half an hour away. I honestly do not have any private space there and until recently they smoked like sailors in the house. They still expect me to clean when I come home, but my slacker sister is 21, lives at home with a GED and "attempting" community college sits on her ass all day. She has a medical condition and my dad allowed her to become useless. She was honestly pretty damn intelligent prior to doing nothing for 5 years.

I don't mind cleaning though, I have OCD issues and like to help my mom.

[Edited on July 27, 2006 at 10:53 AM. Reason : k]

7/27/2006 10:52:52 AM

right after NCSU, haven't lived at my parent's house since then.

however, it'll always feel like home

-ZiP!-

7/27/2006 11:22:28 AM

yawn

7/27/2006 11:24:05 AM

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7/27/2006 2:40:31 PM

This thread is too sad for me.

7/27/2006 4:46:38 PM

There never was 1 single day to point to, but there are a few big days. Going off to college, parents getting divorced so only 1 was still there, dog dying, moving off campus and getting my first apartment, graduating college/moving/getting a new apartment. Not to mention the room I grew up in has undergone alot of cosmetic changes over the 4 years. It was a nice place to grow up for the most part, but its definitely not home any more. Since I spend a lot of vacations in different places in NC, and since I’ve only ever lived at different cities in NC, currently anywhere in the state has a vague home feel… but I’m physically located in Chapel Hill. Getting a full time job here will seal the deal for making this home though.

7/27/2006 5:13:58 PM

Right after I graduated college, when they started using my old room as the spare bedroom.

7/28/2006 12:41:03 AM

When I got a Summer job near school instead of near my parent's house.

7/28/2006 1:34:50 AM

The summer after my freshman year.

7/28/2006 11:45:32 AM

2001

8/1/2006 11:03:46 AM

I guess when I moved into my first apt in Raleigh, which wasn't till after I graduated five years after going to college....but even then my parents house still felt like home. Just had that great feeling, and I loved being in my old room.

But then my parents downsized to a smaller house without a bedroom for me So now I never go home ('course living in NY is part of that)

8/1/2006 1:33:14 PM

Eh, when I moved from CT before my frosh year. Ironically I'm living at my parents home for a few months while I get my feet wet out in the Bay Area..

8/1/2006 6:16:17 PM

I moved out when I was 17 and never looked back, but it was officially no longer my home when my mother and I sold our shares in the house out to my brother.

(my father died without a will, so mom got half, my brother and i split half)

8/1/2006 7:52:50 PM

as soon as I committed to living on campus 2nd year.

I knew I was never going back, even if they hadn't figured it out.

8/2/2006 3:35:21 AM

i dont understand why anyone would want to live on campus

its cheaper to live off campus so you can use your financial aid money better

8/2/2006 12:18:13 PM

my sister lives in the same town as my parents and still calls our house "home." her house is just "my house."

8/2/2006 7:44:53 PM

that's pretty lame

the parents' house wasn't home as soon as high school graduation happened, my car was already packed to head to chapel hill for an internship and i've managed not to spend more than ~24 hours there since

8/8/2006 4:43:19 PM

haven't spent more than a couple of days at home since winter 2001

8/8/2006 5:47:02 PM

^^ it might blow your mind to learn that some of us like our parents and dont mind staying over there now and then.

[Edited on August 8, 2006 at 6:53 PM. Reason : .]

8/8/2006 6:53:12 PM

since our house was pretty much condemned for a couple of months before we sold it this past April


sucks not to have anything to call home anymore

8/8/2006 9:17:59 PM

lesse either when the locks were changed, or my room was turned into my dad's den/study and I was relegated to the "guest room"

8/9/2006 1:39:02 PM

I started calling my dorm home the first week I moved in and it would always confuse people since they always thought I was going back to my hometown if I said I was going home. I guess Fall 2002 when I got my first apt and wasn't kicked out every time a Holiday rolled around.

8/15/2006 2:12:07 PM

i have been staying at hotels, motels, for 13 months, my "home" is now either Holliday Inn Express or Marriotts

8/19/2006 1:20:32 PM