Home is in a different timezone + I rent a non-furnished place. That’s really the issue with renting furnished, you can’t easily move.
You mean that renting furnished makes it easier to move right?
Ask HN: Have any of you moved back home to save money?
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#22Spend time with your family, evaluate your trajectory in life. This will make you stronger.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. Taking a "breather" from the city life, I've had a few years there doing that whole jazz.
Might be good to save, live healthy, evaluate what I want from the next 5 years.
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#23No way in hell my parents would take me back in and no way in hell I'd deal with that again.
That being said, I really wish I could because I might be able to afford going back to school in that case.
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#24I'm switching jobs and i want to go backpacking for a year, so yeah. If you don't have a SO and don't plan to go "socialize" in the short term this is not a bad idea imo.
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#25Not an option, and boy do I wish it was.
You think it's a good option? Basically sacrifice any sense of your own place, put all dating on hold etc for a lot of savings and healthy living.
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#26Sort of. I moved back to my hometown to an old (and I mean old) family flat that my father owns that is 2 minutes walk from my parents house. Honestly, I wanted to shoot my self in the face every day. I love my parents, but I left their home and city at 17 and coming back after 20 years just made me realize I rather starve than live in that shitty hellhole I grew up on. Sorry, not related, but fuck, I hate that town!
Do you mind sharing which town? Or which part of the world / U.S.? I’m just curious where you dislike so much...
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#27Sort of. I moved back to my hometown to an old (and I mean old) family flat that my father owns that is 2 minutes walk from my parents house. Honestly, I wanted to shoot my self in the face every day. I love my parents, but I left their home and city at 17 and coming back after 20 years just made me realize I rather starve than live in that shitty hellhole I grew up on. Sorry, not related, but fuck, I hate that town!
You hate the town itself or just you hate the mental constraint of being around your parents and all the things that trigger your childhood? I don't hate my hometown but I do feel some mental constraint when Im here.
Both.
I hate my hometown (even though most of my old time friends live here, I can go to any bar/restaurant and I am treated like family), but the town, the overall people here, the layout, I just hate it.
As for my parents, I love them, but both me and my father know that we can't be together for long. I moved back with them during lockdown to help them out, but god, the day I got out of there seemed like I won the lottery.
(Again, I love my parents, but our personalities are so different that it is impossible to live in close proximity)
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#28The covid-19 travel restrictions have unfortunately delayed an international move for me. I'm not considering moving back home, but in the event that the restrictions are not lifted before my current lease expires, I will certainly be trading my expensive urban apartment for something more remote and closer to nature. All of the advantages of city life are inaccessible for the foreseeable future, so why not move? I c…
Yeah I just don't see the point. Things have started to open up in NYC but it's just not the same.
Re: Ask HN: Have any of you moved back home to save money?
#29I'm switching jobs and i want to go backpacking for a year, so yeah. If you don't have a SO and don't plan to go "socialize" in the short term this is not a bad idea imo.
Switching jobs after the backpacking trip? No working during the trip? Sounds like a good time.
Yeah that's the only downside... basically zero dating that whole time. But save a ton, reevaluate things... I'm leaning towards it being worth it.
Re: Ask HN: Have any of you moved back home to save money?
#30Sort of. I moved back to my hometown to an old (and I mean old) family flat that my father owns that is 2 minutes walk from my parents house. Honestly, I wanted to shoot my self in the face every day. I love my parents, but I left their home and city at 17 and coming back after 20 years just made me realize I rather starve than live in that shitty hellhole I grew up on. Sorry, not related, but fuck, I hate that town!
Do you mind sharing which town? Or which part of the world / U.S.? I’m just curious where you dislike so much...
Ermesinde, Porto, Portugal. You probably never in your life heard of it :) Most people in Portugal also don't except for a sketch in an old stupid comedy show that put it on the map because 'Ermesinde was the town of the hot bitches' ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uv7y1dtxUk )