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This is the absolute bleakest angle to look at this from and honestly its pretty offensive. Yeah you save money living with your parents, this has always been

This is the absolute bleakest angle to look at this from and honestly its pretty offensive. Yeah you save money living with your parents, this has always been true.... but there is a reason most people move out and its because family living situation can utterly grind people to pieces. What does saving money matter if your quality of life is so low that you don't want to exist? All those people arent living with their parents because suddenly way more people have healthy family situations to be around, ESPECIALLY given how many peoples lives are imploding every day in the US because of emergencies obliterating what little resources they were able to cling onto. Seriously, I have zero time for the "glad millenials are smarting up and saving money by living with their parents" bs, nobody likes pissing away most of their paycheck every month to some landlord who wont even repair anything properly in the rental. This always has and always will be true, its just whether people become so desperate they cant make this choice anymore and they have to risk the consequences of moving home. So this article focuses on how millenials are stress spending on luxuries to try to make their day to day life getting yelled at by their parents worth living and how that is good for the luxury market? What?

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amdta584 4y ago
> honestly its pretty offensive As a counterpoint, it's offensive to treat living with family as an act of desperation. In fact, living with family is extremely common around the world, and moving out at 18 seems to be something of an anomaly mainly common to the U.S. and Northern Europe. While economic factors and housing costs likely play a major role, it's also important to note that U.S. demographics have shifted in the last several decause, and people with Northern European ancestry make up a significantly smaller share of the U.S. population. It's hard to imagine this isn't also a factor.
- europeanguy 4y ago
  > moving out at 18 seems to be something of an anomaly mainly common to the U.S. and Northern Europe. Mainly common to the US and UK. Even "northern Europe" is an exageration, I believe. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
silisili 4y ago
Millenials are more 'single' than prior generations. I wonder if because they are single, they don't mind living with family as much. Or, if the reverse is true - they are single because they live with parents, either out of shame or realization they can't afford to move out.
UncleMeat 4y ago
I dunno. I ended up not living with my parents because I moved away for grad school and moved in with a significant other, but if I was single and lived in the same city as my parents I think I’d be happier living with them for reasons entirely unrelated to money. I agree that if your life with your parents sucks then it is a problem. But how many people is that?

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amdta584 4y ago

> honestly its pretty offensive As a counterpoint, it's offensive to treat living with family as an act of desperation. In fact, living with family is extremely common around the world, and moving out at 18 seems to be something of an anomaly mainly common to the U.S. and Northern Europe. While economic factors and housing costs likely play a major role, it's also important to note that U.S. demographics have shifted in the last several decause, and people with Northern European ancestry make up a significantly smaller share of the U.S. population. It's hard to imagine this isn't also a factor.

europeanguy 4y ago
> moving out at 18 seems to be something of an anomaly mainly common to the U.S. and Northern Europe. Mainly common to the US and UK. Even "northern Europe" is an exageration, I believe. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

silisili 4y ago

Millenials are more 'single' than prior generations. I wonder if because they are single, they don't mind living with family as much. Or, if the reverse is true - they are single because they live with parents, either out of shame or realization they can't afford to move out.

UncleMeat 4y ago

I dunno. I ended up not living with my parents because I moved away for grad school and moved in with a significant other, but if I was single and lived in the same city as my parents I think I’d be happier living with them for reasons entirely unrelated to money. I agree that if your life with your parents sucks then it is a problem. But how many people is that?