An 18-year-old struggles with his decision to move out of the parental home.
The teenager explained his situation on Reddit’s “Am I the A ******” forum. He’s going to start college soon. His parents told him that they expected him to pay rent and bills if he wanted to live at home. The problem was they wanted $ 1,300 a month, which was the price of an entire apartment in his area.
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“Before my 18th birthday over a month ago, my parents started talking about expecting me to pay the rent and half the bills if I expect to stay there,” he said. “That wasn’t the problem. The problem was, they expected me to pay $ 1,300 a month for my tiny room that I share with my little brother. Without half the bills they expected from me. Most apartments in our city are of this size, but that applies to an entire apartment, not a single room plus space with everyone else. Most of my paycheck would just go on it. I [told] I don’t have my parents [have] a problem with helping with the bills and paying my room when the rent was lower. They said they agreed that much so I would have to pay that if I wanted to stay there. “
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He accepted their terms and decided to move out. But his parents didn’t like that.
“I said good and spoke to a friend of mine who I already knew had his own apartment but had been looking for a new roommate for the past three months,” he wrote. “In the end, he went with him and he put me on the lease. My own room and bathroom, plus the total rent and half of the bills, is a lot less than the rent my parents expected me to pay. But the thing is, they’re super mad at me for leaving. My mother ignored me when I moved out, my father kept saying how disappointed he was in me. For a while, they hoped to be able to rely on me to help them out with their mortgage payments on the house and with the bills too. Now that I’ve made up my mind to go my dad says I’m really going to leave her in trouble and he can’t believe that I chose to be selfish instead of helping my family.
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Reddit thought the teen had made the right move.
“For a parent trying to bill their barely old son so much money for his fucking nursery, it’s outrageous,” commented one person.
“It is an absurd amount of money to pay for a shared bedroom,” wrote another.
“They really shot themselves in the foot with their greed,” added someone.
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