r/movingout

I am currently a full time student and work a part time job as many hours as i can fit in during school, I make about 800 dollars a month during school and during summer (4 months of the year) I make about 1500 a month. My monthly expenses include my car insurance (150 ish a month), gas to get to school (200-300 a month but would go down as I would move closer to school), my phone bill (220 a year or 20 bucks a month ish), and food/other things which Im not sure the price of but would assume would be 150-200 a month (and I would get on food banks).
All would come out to about 500 dollars leaving roughly 300 for rent with absolutely nothing left.
where I live rent for a sharing bedroom can be from 300 all the way to 600 dollars a month, obviously thats not possible for me.

my question is, are there any government supports or grants I can use to help me move out. am I likely to get excepted to subsidized housing? anyone who moved out around this age, how did you possibly do it? is there a way to without quitting school?

any advice would help, thank you 🙏

someone close to me is trying to move away from their parents. they’re overage but their parents refuse to let them tour places and they aren’t allowed to leave the house much. sneaking would be very difficult because their parents make them bring their sibling on every outing, who would definitely report it to them. they don’t have anyone who would let them stay with them, so their only option is to rent a place, which requires touring.

what is their best option here?

do not suggest shelters, police, “just doing it anyway” or anything else unrealistic or which is supposed to help but will actually just be a huge inconvenience for this person.

ADU $1,500/month matching deposit, but said I could pay $300/month if need be until the deposit is paid off. I said I’d need a little time to get my funds in order like a couple months. I like to play it safe when I owe people money. He said he’d take $500 to hold it for a certain amount of time, sign the lease for the future date that I plan on moving it, and start paying rent then. He’s even lowered the price 3 times by $500 for me. I make around $3,600 a month a current commute an hour too and from work and this place is two minted away, so it would save me about $300/month in gas. I applied for an essay second job in the evenings after my fulltime job, just in case. The application is asking for 3 months pay stubs on top of 3 months account info? Like how much coming in be out? Is that normal? Thanks for any help.

Moving out of parents house, cant complain much from living there but I want to get out. I found a rental house, completely empty and i just want the basic things now and get more stuff later. Anything I really have to get? I would like to be moved in this week, and my head cannot scramble anything together

my parents have a key to my place and i'm starting to think i shouldn't have agreed to it.

they don't just show up or anything, but knowing they technically can get in whenever they want bothers me more than i expected.

part of me thinks i'm being dramatic because they're my parents and they aren't doing anything wrong.

the other part thinks that once you move out, your home is your home and nobody should have access unless you give it to them.

would you let your parents keep a key?

I'm [age] and planning to move out around [month], and I'm stuck on the budgeting part. Every guide says to save a few months of rent, but that doesn't tell me what the first month actually costs.

Here's what I know so far. I'm looking at places in the [rough area, like "mid-size city" or "suburb", no address] with rent around [amount]. I make about [monthly income after tax] and have roughly [amount] saved. I'm planning to live [alone / with one roommate].

The costs I'm worried about are the ones nobody mentions until they hit you:

1. Deposit plus first month's rent, and whether it's smart to put everything I have into that
2. Basic furniture and kitchen stuff. I own almost nothing, just [what you actually have]
3. Utilities and internet setup, including any connection fees
4. [One real worry, e.g. "my job is commission-based so my income changes" or "my commute would get longer"]

Some questions for people who've done this:

1. What was the one cost that surprised you most in the first month?
2. How much did you have left in the bank after move-in day, and was it enough?
3. What's worth buying new, and what did you get secondhand or wait on?

I'd really like honest numbers or percentages, even rough ones. Thanks!

i'm working on my budget before moving out and food costs are harder to predict than i thought. i can estimate rent and bills pretty easily, but groceries seem to change a lot depending on what i buy each week.

how did you set a realistic grocery budget when you first started living on your own?

How did you break it to your partner that you want a divorce? And how did you break it to the family? How was the process of moving out?

I'm a 27 year old autistic person living with their parents in Raleigh NC. I have an Associate's Degree in Automotive Systems, and I work at a tire shop full time earning around $2000-2100 a month. Recently I found a 1-bedroom for about $1,100 total (including utilities), but it's a good ways away from my current job unless I get a transfer to another store. Thing is, I'm on my last strike at work due to a screw-up with a car and behavioral problems due to my autism, and so I'm scared of losing my job, and in this economy finding a job, especially one that's more autism-friendly, feels next to impossible. I am also a heavily closeted queer person who's starting to feel more and more unsafe, and moving abroad feels almost impossible, let alone moving out to another state or even another city, and my parents don't seem to want to help financially contribute to me wanting to move out.

I've considered moving with a friend of mine, but because she's transgender and my conservative family is likely gonna be probing me as to who my roommate is, I fear they won't let me move in, and she also recently said that she had considered moving to Asheville in the future, which only further complicates things. I don't wanna move in with my brother because he's a burden on me, and I struggle with social skills and building networks to find other roommates and I really want the peace and quiet of living on my own.

Back to the original apartment, I calculated expenses with my mom and I'm sitting at around $1600 a month give or take, likely lower given that I am pretty frugal and can get away with a lower grocery bill. I have enough saved for 6 months plus $1000 emergency fund, plus my parents are considering setting up an ABLE account for me using the remains of my college fund. I do have a ROTH IRA that I contribute to, and I don't have to make car payments.

I'm just so scared...I don't wanna live with my parents anymore and even though I am technically able to move out, it's just so risky and overwhelming and I don't know how to take the first step...

Pretty much as the title asks. Not many people can afford to move out anymore atleast not without having to choose whether they want their own place or food in their belly. This economy is truly fucked. I (21M) live with my family and we haven’t got the best relationship. In fact, I live with them but I don’t talk to them at all. I have no idea what’s going on in the family and for my own peace it’s best to stay like that.

Besides family issues, I now understand why people leave their hometowns. Sometimes I get the idea you can’t grow in the environment you grew up in but another part of me challenges that. What’s stopping someone from building a fulfilling life even if they live in their childhood town? But I have no idea how to go about doing it. If anyone here has done anything of the sort, I’d love to hear your advice.