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How Do You Live?
On My Own. 28%  28%  [ 24 ]
At home with parents. 33%  33%  [ 29 ]
Mother/Father. 7%  7%  [ 6 ]
With Friends. 3%  3%  [ 3 ]
With a Carer. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
A Group Home. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
With Boyfriend/Girlfriend. 6%  6%  [ 5 ]
With Husband/Wife/Children. 16%  16%  [ 14 ]
Grandparents/Other Relatives. 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
Foster care. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Other... 6%  6%  [ 5 ]
Total votes : 87

turkey87953
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09 Dec 2010, 10:14 pm

How/Where Do You Live?



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09 Dec 2010, 10:51 pm

not entirely accurate, BF lives with me, tis my house


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09 Dec 2010, 10:57 pm

In a shoe box while my mother throws shoes at me and yells at me to be more social.


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09 Dec 2010, 11:31 pm

pensieve wrote:
In a shoe box while my mother throws shoes at me and yells at me to be more social.


Hm. I thought we all just lived our lives locked away in our parents' basement/attics with our geek computers, never to see the light of day.

In all seriousness, I live with my mother and siblings. I'm not locked away in the attic, though; too cluttered.



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09 Dec 2010, 11:52 pm

I live on my own, in a one room apartment.


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09 Dec 2010, 11:52 pm

I've always told people that I've lived on my own most of my life, but I realized that's not actually true. I've always lived with someone who would take care of the things I couldn't: my parents, my grandparents, my cousin and now my partner. The realization deflates me a little.



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10 Dec 2010, 12:20 am

I live in a dorm. No roommates, so I voted On my own.



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10 Dec 2010, 12:28 am

whats a 'carer'?



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10 Dec 2010, 12:32 am

well i fled the nest a few years ago, but actually i wouldn't mind moving back to my mother's again



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10 Dec 2010, 12:39 am

I checked other.

I live by myself but technically am in a form of residential care. It's a fairly new form of it where instead of a roommate my apartment is connected with sensors (the same type used in some nursing homes) so that if I need help someone is literally five minutes away. During most of the daytime there are staff people who come in and assist me with just about everything (from "complicated" things like cooking to "simple" things like bathing and general hygiene, I basically need help in most if not all categories of activity that they come up with). Additionally my cat is trained to assist me with many of my motor issues. So the whole setup is just like having a paid roommate except instead of living in the next room the person is within five minutes of me. So it allows people who would otherwise need roommates, to live with a little less overload and more privacy while still giving people close to instant access to us and our homes if necessary. I hope it catches on in more places. It kind of defies traditional categorization.


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10 Dec 2010, 12:49 am

Wife and I on about 4 acres on a country dead end.

WAS with mother in law and Number 1 Son. She passed on, he moved out - though visits periodically.



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10 Dec 2010, 1:21 am

I live with my husband.


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10 Dec 2010, 1:52 am

I live with my parents and, for now, younger brother.

My mom says that when she and dad pass away, they want me to have a living situation similar to what this poster describes:

anbuend wrote:
I checked other.

I live by myself but technically am in a form of residential care. It's a fairly new form of it where instead of a roommate my apartment is connected with sensors (the same type used in some nursing homes) so that if I need help someone is literally five minutes away. During most of the daytime there are staff people who come in and assist me with just about everything (from "complicated" things like cooking to "simple" things like bathing and general hygiene, I basically need help in most if not all categories of activity that they come up with). Additionally my cat is trained to assist me with many of my motor issues. So the whole setup is just like having a paid roommate except instead of living in the next room the person is within five minutes of me. So it allows people who would otherwise need roommates, to live with a little less overload and more privacy while still giving people close to instant access to us and our homes if necessary. I hope it catches on in more places. It kind of defies traditional categorization.



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10 Dec 2010, 2:23 am

I live at my brother's house.


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10 Dec 2010, 2:28 am

With my parents. I want to move out as soon as school is done with and I get a job.



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10 Dec 2010, 2:45 am

with my mom....but I am the one taking care of her as she has a severe chronic illness


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