For most of my life I was only vision impaired in that my vision was never good enough to get a driver's license, so I was restricted to my feet, a bicycle, or public transportation to get around.

When I first moved out it was scarry being away from home for the first time, but I quickly adapted and things were fine.

To help with expenses, I decided to try having a room mate share the apartment with me. The first one turned out to be a good friend but as room mates, we were incompatible, so we parted ways.

The second room mate turned out to be a leech, he never paid so much as a dime towards expenses leaving me to support both of us while he spent his money on himself. Then he started bringing married women around to sleep with in our apartment, which I didn't condone and didn't want going on in the apartment. He ignored me and kept up with the married women. So I eventually kicked him out for both reasons. The last thing I wanted was for an angry husband to come looking for his wife's lover looking to shoot first and ask questions later.

After that I swore off room mates. It may be more expensive living alone but then you don't have to deal with someone else's bull crap.

After that living alone suited me just fine and I got along quite well.

Then I began losing my vision, it took three years before I was declared legally blind, and another year before I had to start using a long white cane.

In that time and afterwards I continued to live alone and have few difficulties with it, and as I find solutions like JAWS, flat bed scanners with OCR, the ID Mate Galaxy bar code scanner, Aira, TiVo with its screen reader, and etc, the difficulties I face get fewer and fewer.

Before I lost my vision, I used to say, "I'd rather be dead than blind." but now, after four and a half years of being blind, I find it's just an aspect of my life and only a minor hindrance.

Go for it, once you adapt, you'll love it!

I don't know I have this bad feeling when ever I think of a roommate.

It all comes down to if you can afford it or in the right mind frame to make it happen

I moved out when I was 18yrs old & loved the freedom of your on place

I will save you time don't waist your time sharing a place if you can

A George formen grill & online shopping helps a lot

To the guy that wants to eat more healthy
Eat fish. Skinless chicken. Qorn & salads
Walking. Jogging. Dancing will do the job
In your home. Garden or out with friends

Don't let anything in life get in your way
Keep your head up gents

Actually flacus my lady and I have the reverse problem you mention at the moment, namely that we moved from 100 miles north of where I grew up to only about twenty miles away. Since its a 40 minute drive away we assumed it would be far enough to retain independence but unfortunately my mum is becoming actually a bit more rather than less clingy as she gets older which is a miner pest but will probably sought itself out when she's got used to the fact that  35 not 15.

Hi.
Hmm, moving out for me wasn't quite the change how it might have been for others, since I was 10, I visited a boarding school for the blind, about 2 hours away from my home, in the first year there, I was at my mothers place for every weekend or so, but over the years it gradually changed, I am here since two months by now, will go home in the easter hollydays for a bit, but just for some days.
We are living in flats with around 7 others students and a team of staff members watching over us so to speak, but since I started an I T Training last September, I moved into a flat with non 24/7 someone watching over us, the person responsible for the flat is coming twice a week, but for the rest, we clean our rooms, prepare food, do laundry, and all the stuff you need to do to live here, sure, we don't need to pay the bills and such, but it is quite nice and an important step towards independence.
Greetings Moritz.

Apart from groceries and transport costs, everything else just goes out of my bank account automatically. If you have enough income, and are the sort who's sensible and responsible enough to take care of the essentials before spending whatever's left each month while maintaining a bit of savings for emergencies, you'll be fine. I'm boringly sensible about that kind of thing, so have never had a month where I didn't have enough to cover my bills, but there are people who seem to get by alright in constant debt with no intention of paying any of it. I couldn't live like that, but some can, so I Suppose it all depends on what you're like.
As for running a household as a blind person living alone, the internet is probably the best tool you have. When I first left home, it was 1995, and I didn't know anyone who had the internet, and had never even used it at that point. It's great these days being able to manage all your banking, bills, groceries, and general shopping all from the comfort of your armchair. The net has made life so much easier for the disabled.

I hate automatic payments and do not use them except on one bill because it literally saves me $5 for it. Reason being is if I get in a spot, and I don't have enough, I am the one who has to prioritize what goes where and when, or I would be in trouble and overdraw my account. I uh... just can't say, not pay my rent, a place to live and a roof over my head is more important than say, internet lol. I've never had it get that tight but yeah.

George formen is a grill that is built in a shell/ box shape
Which allows you to grill so many different meals & meats
You place the meat or sandwich you want to grill on the grill
Then close over the top of the grill as you would a laptop or pizza box lol

As the grill has to plates of metal to heat up the food
One on the inside top panel & one on the bottom inside panel
So basically your food will be in the middle of both the grill panels
Bonus its healthy to as all the fat drips off to a tray at the bottom you can clip off & clean out

@hurstseth405, bills aren't a problem if your sensible. I have standing orders for most bills since most of them missing would be an intensively bad idea but I also keep tabs on my bnk account regularly so I know what is going in and out.
while I fully agree with Flacus about the net being useful, I personally do not! do internet banking. The reason is I want  little of my own financial information on my computer as possible just in case, heck up until recently I even always used Paypal with a credit card, though annoyingly paypal's charges for that have got prohibitive so I've had to tie paypal into my bank, something I'm not happy with.
Still my bank has a telephone banking service I can use, and going into the bank in person still works.

Generally I don't agonise about bills or budgit exhaustigvely, usually before making a none essential purchase I'll check if I can afford it. I know some people who literally separate out their income bit by bit but that's something I've never had to do, usually being sensible and keeping a watch on things is enough for me, though now I'm keeping more of a watch than usual since my income has to support two people. 

As to cooking flybychow, generally I use several devices.
the george forman is good for things like steak, burgers, pork chops, bacon etc.
I also have a slow cooker, sometimes called a crock pot which is awesome for making stews and chillies and the like. 

I use the inside of the oven quite a lot, indeed that is what I tend to do with things like fish or pies or such, I just have a good set of oven gloves and appropriate markings on  controls, and shoving things in an oven isn't hard.

I also have an electronic steamer for cooking vegitables which is a completely awesome item and something I'd recommend to anyone as it's so much easier than trying to use the hob.

lastly I do use the microwave, indeed I have a talkig microwave, though I admit this is more a luxury than a necessity. Its actually surprising how much you can do in a mike given  we've even discovered an amazing brand of frozen mashed potatoes.

Generally cooking is a combination of using these items.

I did used to make a couple of things on the hob, that is the top of the oven, but that is more difficult, and I only tended to use it for things like stir fry and occasionally pasta.
In our current house the hob is actually broken and to be honest we've not missed it since most things can be done otherwise.

So for fish fingers I'd use the oven, just bang them on a tray, set the oven to the right temperature (about 200 degrees c with an electric oven), and time for around 25 minutes, maybe a minute or two more depending upon size and whether they're frozen.
The thing I would recommend, apart from marking the oven, would be a good set of chef's gloves. And when I say gloves I mean gloves! as in things with fingers.
I have two sets of kevla oven gloves which are utterly heat proof and mean that getting stuff in and out of the oven is no problem.

I'd probably do the pies you mention the same way in the oven, though also I might put them in the mike depending upon time.

For rice, not having a working hob or wanting to monkey with boiling water, we use a microwave brand which is really good stuff and goes very well when we've put a chilly together.

The only two major things cooking wise that are a pain are firstly preparing and washing vege (since you can't see when its clean), and also a lot of things like frying using the hob.
otherwise though things are fairly easy to do.

hth.

It's hard to explain how the controls on a stove/oven work, since they differ from stove to stove. My parents have some digital monstrosity, while I just have a few dials on the back. It'd be nice to get them labeled, but most of what I need is easy to remember and not that picky about precision, so I haven't done any labeling, there. (The microwave is marked, though.)
I never even thought of bacon on the grill! As said, doing it in the microwave is an invitation to grease city.

Hob, stove top, I dont' think there is a specific term for it.
Actually the one in the new house probably wouldn't have been usable anyway, given that it is one of those one piece things with no defined rings, so even if it was! working I probably wouldn't be using it.
Besides As I said, I mostly never used the thing accept for pasta and stir fry.

of course In America you strange people don't use electric kettles, which probably makes life more difficult even for simple things like making tea or making  without using a machine, though as that has been run through in other topics I'll stop.

the latest thing I have that I absolutely love is my electric steamer, which is great for vege, fish all sorts of things like that and really easy to use, just pour hot water into the bottom, stick whatever your steaming into one of the baskets, and then bang the basket on the base and turn it on, walk away for about 25 minutes or so and then just lift the baskets off when its done.

Oh and yes Ironcross, Kevlar will stop heat dead. I've sometimes had my hand on the ring while its been on to position a pan, which is quite doable in the Kevlar gloves, as is taking time making sure you've got trays securely when pulling them out of the oven. They're great because they're actual gloves with fingers, so you don't have to do everything while wearing boxing gloves or still worse, those dreadful mits that are more like just a small pouch for your hands.

the only thing you need to be slightly careful with is Kevlar isn't water tight, so don't spill hot liquid or steam your hands by accident.

Oh and Cae yeah, bacon on the George works really well, sometimes I'll get soem eggs and do my lady and  will do bacon and scrambled eggs for brunch, or a round of bacon butties :d.

I'd recommend five minutes, or 7 if you want it crimated,s did seem to be the fashion in the states :d. 

Just make sure you have a good spachela to get it off with, indeed i usually just bang a plate under the lip of the George and scrape the bacon straight off the grill.

waw, this is super exciting! thank you every one for helping me out. I'll definitely mention all this to my sister. and we can see what we can buy me, to get this show on the road. I do have a question about the microwave. you see. in normal microwaves cooking
the pie, is not doable because, it softens and soggy the pie.
but i have encountered a convection micro wave that makes it nice and crispy. but that was long ago. and not even sure, if that was what its called.
is it a given that normal micro wave cannot do this. or is there a button or setting i am missing.
as for the George Forman, I've mentioned this to my sister. and she says that, there are many types of the George formans out there.
is this true? must I get the biggest one?
or is there a certon one I must get.
Thank you dark for the idea bout the gloves. I must definitely get me one of those.
wow! cooking pork chops on it, nice! I am really feeling happy and hopeful about this. is making chicken breasts or, chicken phillits also doable on the grill? or must you use something else for that.

there is only 2 things I'm not sure. what you are referring to. we have a thing called a pressure cooker.
you get the electric ones, and non electric ones.
its basically big iron pot. with a lid that has a rubber on it.
is that what you meant with, a slow cooker?
The last question for now is, potatos. how do you peal them?
Is there a easy way to peal the potatos? to get the skin off. or must you use that little hand pealer?