Tyumen Residents Share When They and Kids Left Parental Homes

Some Tyumen residents started independent lives even before coming of age. Some admit: it was hard. Others say that only without supervision did they feel real freedom. We asked our readers at what age they themselves moved out from their parents and allowed their children to do so. We publish several opinions.

“I moved out from my mom at 17. At that time, there was no juvenile justice. And now it exists,” the city resident wrote cautiously.

“Immediately after finishing 11th grade,” a Tyumen resident wrote without details.

“I moved out from my parents at 17, did it right after school. I moved from the north to Tyumen and lived with my grandmother. I moved out from her at 22, back to the north. So, after graduating from institute and being married, I never lived with relatives again,” the man said.

“At 18, I went into the army and never lived with my parents again,” shared a resident.

“This year, my eldest son, he is 23, with his wife and daughter moved into their own apartment,” wrote a Tyumen woman.

“Utility bills are felt immediately when you move out from parents. Even if it«s 5,000 rubles (about $50 at current rates) from your own hard-earned money,” added a female resident.

“At 14, after 8th grade, I was sent to a technical school to study. It was tough and scary, but what doesn«t kill us makes us stronger. After finishing studies and a three-year work assignment, I calmly left on a Komsomol ticket from Moscow to Tyumen and don»t regret it at all,” reported another.

“From age 14, I lived alone, truth be told, with my mom next door on the same floor,” the man said.

“I moved away from my parents at 19, when I started studying. In my husband«s life, it turned out that his mother alone after his father»s death couldn«t be left. So, he only started living alone after the army,” added our reader.

“My daughter moved away from us to another city this year, she is 20,” the woman explained.

“I came to study in Tyumen at 16. Then I was given a room in the college dormitory. Since then, independent life began,” added a Tyumen woman.

“At 18, I moved out, at 36, I returned with a child to my parents« home. I have my own apartment, but it»s calmer and more comfortable to live with mom,” the city resident explained.

“At 17, I moved out when I entered the institute. We lived as we could. We ate what we could. We wore what we had. One C grade — they didn«t pay the scholarship. I worked as a nurse»s aide at night in the hospital,” summarized a Tyumen woman.

Also in December, the search team “Avangard” (Vanguard) told details of the search for a 14-year-old girl who left Tyumen Oblast by electric train. According to operational information, the schoolgirl was heading towards Sverdlovsk Oblast, and the most likely points of her arrival were considered to be Tugulym, Yushala, and Talitsa. To find the girl, it was necessary to involve searchers from the village of Tugulym. According to the searchers, they needed to act as carefully as possible: any sharp action could complicate the situation and scare the child. As it turned out later, the girl decided to go to another city to her boyfriend.

And we also wrote about how Tyumen residents tell how much money they give for pocket expenses to children. Some allocate from a hundred to a thousand rubles (about $1 to $10 at current rates) a week, others don«t give a penny at all for free. Why and what the daughters and sons of residents spend their savings on — in our previous material.