Stay At Home Kids

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More young adults in 20s and 30s living with parents than in past 20 years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/dec/08/young-adults-living-parental-home-ons

 

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Where's 'Gome'?

 

Quel suprise

 

Is it better now?

 

That's because they're saddled with debt after leaving university with little chance of landing a job they've trained for as there aren't enough vacancies.

The scary thing is that here in the UK the government are pushing for even more people to go which in turn will make the job market even more competitive.

 

Ooh, what she said!

 

I think in this article they were pointing to jobless people who finished school.
There are lots of then who are lazy but lots of them are just stuck at the moment without any job...
One of my friends worked but lived with parents to save for house deposit. Other one went back to his parents because he is changing career and has to study.
Also, everyone knows how difference in house prices are 15 - 20 years ago or now. Someone told me that they bought the house 17 years ago for 500k and now it is worth more than a mil. So compare that with pay people receive then and now and of course that life standard is going down and this is going to be so common to live with parents, even normal as it is normal in countries with lower standard. Truth is that nobody knows how bad it is here in this country as statistics can be missleading.

 

I stayed at home until I was 21. I got an education before I moved out as I would not have been able to afford it otherwise without landing myself in heaps of debt. From leaving uni, I literally walked into this job as I was headhunted by the school. Alot of people stay at home with mum and dad (my old brother being 26 when he left home, and he got married before he left!) because it is easier financially.

 

I'm 25 and still live at home, my ex gf is 26 and she still lives at home (possibly part of the reason we split after 7 years).
Why do I?

As Arro said because its cheaper, at the minute I manage to spend all my money without buying anything noticable and barely going out, god knows where it goes.

Also I don't want to be tied with a mortgage yet so it helps on that front.
That said in the new year I have a plan in place to tighten the purse strings and pay off my loan early and get out of town for a while, then when I am done with that I can settle down.

 

I blame the Internet.

Here, kids get given everything nowadays from their own room, a swimming pool, ducted air conditioning, a car, a shiny laptop, their food and clothes provided. All so then can sit and fester in their rooms with their laptop hooked up to their parents broadband and spend hours playing WoW and posting inane comments on Facebook whilst yakking incessantly on live messenger.

Their life is way too easy for them to want to leave home and have to work their arses off whilst slumming it for years (like many of us did) in order to save up for the deposit on a mortgage.

In a word, they have been *spoiled*.