I really don't know how I feel about this. 

We moved out after high school and that independence was a valuable experience.

We also incurred a lot of avoidable costs and probably aren't as good at living with other people as we would have been otherwise.

I think it’s amazing that the empty nest syndrome starts when teens turn 18! I don’t think I would have been ready to move out and live on my own at that tender age (even though I did military conscription for about 1.5 years around that time). Barring two years in Japan, I lived with my parents until the ripe old age of 34 haha

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Our daughter tells us that she wants to live with us when she's grown up, which she probably won't but of course we tell her that she can live with us as long as she wants to.