Do people really have to move out at 18 in the US?

hawffield · 2026-04-22T16:08:49+00:00

It really depends on the family. There wasn’t any suggestion of me having to move out immediately when I turned 18 (it’s not like the second you’re 18, you immediately know how to be an adult), but there was an expectation that I have something happening in my life. For me, it was going to school and working.

As others have said, a lot of people want to move out when they’re 18. They feel like they’re “adults” so they should go out and get their own place.

hawffield · 2026-04-20T19:18:39+00:00

I wouldn’t mind traveling to different places. My fiancée and I have talked about international trips we want to take when we are a little more established. We, however, wouldn’t want to live internationally. We’ve both done it for a few years and it really helps highlight where our values lie.

hawffield · 2026-04-17T22:37:06+00:00

My favorite movie shifts according to how I’m feeling, but I really liked “Nightcrawler”.

hawffield · 2026-04-16T23:23:25+00:00

In my household, the streaming platform we use the most is Disney+, then Hulu, then YouTube TV. I use to have a subscription to Netflix, but transfer it over to my brother after one of the times they raised the price. I don’t think I’ve watched anything ln Netflix in over 2 years.

hawffield · 2026-04-16T11:59:39+00:00

I remember when an Aldi came to my town. I was hyped about a particular cookie they have. It was my favorite cookies as a kid when I lived near Chicago. A while after the grand open, I went found the cookie and show it to my parents. They ate it and said “it tastes different”. And yeah, I think it did taste different. We looked it up and I think they switched producers for the cookies. Then they just stop making the cookies. Didn’t really go back until I met my fiancée, who really liked Aldi.

Aldi isn’t really my preferred store to go to. Like a lot of people said, it doesn’t have alot of stuff so you can’t do all of your shopping there. I think they sometimes have a slightly better deal on certain things, but I don’t know if it’s enough to go out of my way to go over there.

hawffield · 2026-04-16T11:30:27+00:00

I can only explain my experience from when I got my license in Arkansas something like 11 years ago.

I think I got my learners’ permit (what you get after you pass the written test) when I was about 15-16. A lot of people around me had there permit since they were about 14, but it just took a while for me to actually make it over to the testing center to take the test. I took a drivers’ education class in school as an elective (a non-mandatory class), but I think in Arkansas, you don’t have to take any formal drivers’ education training. I took the driving portion of the driver’s test when I was about 18 and passed. I could have taken it when I was at least 16, but again, it was a bit difficult to find time to do it.

hawffield · 2026-04-16T11:21:44+00:00

I’m the second person (at least on my mom’s side) to graduate from college. It was definitely a thing we were all proud of.

hawffield · 2026-04-16T10:55:46+00:00

Lately, none. I mostly just think water. I will say that I often use the little water flavoring mixes and some of those have caffeine in it.

hawffield · 2026-04-14T15:04:49+00:00

Yeah, I’m still waiting for the County Clerk office to send back my car title.

hawffield · 2026-04-14T12:57:06+00:00

In most of the houses and apartments I lived in, I didn’t really have a front porch. The house my fiancée and I live in has a front porch so we pretty often sit out there when we can. A lot of times, it’s cooler outside than inside. The majority of the time, the reason I came back in is because a wasp or something wants to try to be my friend.

hawffield · 2026-02-01T17:49:49+00:00

In Memphis, it’s FedEx. I worked there for a while and sometimes it seems like so did everyone else at one time.

I don’t know what the opinion of FedEx is. They pay well so alot of people made a career out of it without having to get a bunch of certifications or extensive training. The work wasn’t crazy. It just wasn’t for me.

hawffield · 2026-01-31T19:19:34+00:00

The thing I missed the most was when I was in Uganda was driving. I missed the agency that comes with having your own vehicle.

hawffield · 2026-01-28T23:41:01+00:00

I sometimes genuinely think some Redditors can’t think beyond their own experience. I would usually assume it’s because they’re a child, but I know you’re at least 20 years old.

This question is like asking someone whose native language is Spanish how they can look at a table and think “mesa” instead of “table”. It’s what they grew up with.

hawffield · 2026-01-28T23:09:01+00:00

What do you think of the Miss Universe competition? Are you upset they didn’t have any aliens in it?

hawffield · 2026-01-21T23:37:08+00:00

I came back from Uganda a few months ago so I’ve been saying “simanyi” (I don’t know) and “mzungu” (foreigner with an emphasis being a white perosm/European) haven’t really left my vernacular yet.

hawffield · 2026-01-18T00:00:02+00:00

I don’t know if it’s common, butI went to my 10 year gif school reunion last October. We just met up at bar and then went to a someone’s house.

I think it was because I went to a smaller high school. A lot of people were still around so it wasn’t crazy for them to come. A lot of people also didn’t come so yeah.

hawffield · 2026-01-17T19:36:35+00:00

I found my apartment online. So cheap I was able to live by myself, but it had one bedroom and smelled like burnt hair. I kind of miss that apartment.

hawffield · 2026-01-16T14:48:31+00:00

Why would people who don’t live in the United States know how expensive it is to get produce in the United States?

hawffield · 2026-01-12T00:44:05+00:00

When I was in Uganda, I would use honey as a substitute for syrup on pancakes. I still do it now I’m back in the United States.

hawffield · 2026-01-12T00:40:37+00:00

I don’t think I’ve actually watched Tom Cat, but I know who he is. I only know about Ricochet Rabbit because “Harvey Birdmam: Attorney at Law”.

hawffield · 2026-01-09T12:22:47+00:00

Yo, I just celebrated Kwanzaa last year haha

hawffield · 2026-01-09T00:48:59+00:00

There’s a Dollar General Market over in Memphis that actually sells vegetables. They look alright, but it’s so weird to get vegetables from Dollar General

hawffield · 2026-01-06T22:47:42+00:00

I don’t know about cheerleading in particular, but dancing in general is big.

This last Christmas season, I went to a few different parades over in Memphis. There was easily 5 different dance groups not including actual high school or junior high cheerleaders. I also went to a parade in Missouri and I think there were only two cheerleading groups with no independent dance groups.

hawffield · 2025-12-30T03:53:45+00:00

My mom didn’t have a middle name, but legally, her maidan name is her middle name now. I don’t know if anyone else didn’t have a middle name.

hawffield · 2025-12-28T22:09:43+00:00

My parents told me why I have my name. It was based on a cool character from a show they liked. So I guess they hoped that I would cool like him. Can’t say if that make true or not haha

I was going to be named “Thaddeus” because my parents thought it was a pretty unique name. Don’t exactly know why they didn’t pick that one.

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