<prompt> Human: Using a throwaway because being 31 and never having left my parents home is embarrassing.I am 31 male and work in Network Consulting. My salary is 81,000 not including discretionary performance bonuses. I have 20k saved in a 401k and 10k in my checking account. I want move into the city of Boston and am looking at places that cost approximately 1,000 a month.. some include utilities, some dont. I am also considering places that are 2 bedroom and around 2,000 a month and splitting with a roommate. I work from home or travel on site for my job so I dont ever commute to an office, only on site locations which I drive to or fly to. My company pays for my entire internet service bill every month and entire cell phone bill every month.My question to rPF is... given my rough income statistics, am I making a mistake by moving out of a place I dont pay rent I dont currently pay rent but buy all groceries and do all house maintainence to a place of my own, paying rent. I want to move towards home ownership and only want to rent for roughly 2 years, trying it for the first year to see how it goes.Do I make enough to afford 1,000 a month rent and even if I do, is that a foolish move by rPF standards?I wanted to consult some of the professionals here before committing to anything. Any other questions, just ask!  <response>: Why dont you have more saved? It would seem like with that salary and having lived at home so long you would have saved substantially more by now. 