I turned 25 this week.

It is around this age that people start to ask the same questions: what do you do, who are you with, where do you live?

The last one, in particular, seems to carry a certain weight.

By 25, there is an expectation you have moved out. That you have some version of independence. I haven’t.

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I still live at home with my parents and, truthfully, I enjoy it. It is comfortable, and financially it makes far more sense.

But there is also a part of me that feels like I am missing something.

That living independently is a milestone I have yet to reach. Not the half-step of student housing, where home is still only a short journey away, but the full version: your own place, your own routines, your........

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