Not a big thing in the uk, I left for uni when I was 18 years old and I have never looked back, since then I have never moved back. That was 14 years ago
I graduated high school and My parents home at the same time! Left home and never lived there again. And My folks didn't have a basement!
I left home at 17 and apart from the visits to see people, I dont intend on ever living there again
Nope. Left at 18 with a decent job, never went back. Woulda been tough to do anyway as several of my siblings made their homes there over the next few years.
My dog lives in the basement....and he's happy ?
My Karma just ran over your Dogma
in house, in bedroom, but not basement!
Left home at 18 to go to university. Never really went back except as a visitor. My wife and I were engaged before I graduated, at which point I moved in to her parents house until the time came 2 years later when we bought our own home - that was 43 years ago.
When I was young I moved into the basement because I got to have a whole lot more room... I enjoyed it through my teen years and up until I moved out of my parents house... Would I ever move back? Not in a million years, I would probably live in my car before I moved back in... Not for a lack of love of my parents, but when your in their house, its like your a kid all over again and I dont need a curfew at 49...lol
Once I moved out (at 23) I pretty much stayed out except for weekend and holidays visits, when I crashed in my old room, not the basement. Lived with them for part of a summer after surgery because I was still single at that point so didn't have anyone to watch over/take care of me and gf couldn't really move in with me for it. But I've never been a "basement dweller" save for the odd time when I slept down there because it was the coolest part of the house before we got a/c.