Living at home at 25, is it common?

My 23yr old still lives at home.they are nearing the end of work exams to allow them to become chartered in their job. They are hoping to have passed by Christmas and have been saving furiously for a house deposit, which they have just now. So any extra saved will help furnish their home when they are qualified.

Most my friends children the same age are still at home.

I'm nearly 27, 3 kids. Moved out at 20 after having first child at 19 - before that me, DH and DS1 all lived with my mum.

I have 3 sisters still living with mum (20, 17 and 15) and the 20 year old isn't planning to move out any time soon (she commutes to uni from home).

Which is normal as she doesn't really have a reason to move out yet, while I had a child so needed more space. I've done things the other way around and started uni at 25 instead.

How do this work practically? I would hate having no real privacy in my mid-20s. I do get it, though, as rents in England seem absolutely absurd.

The rent seem to have trippled in London in the last 10 years or so, for example. Madness.

My 32 year old DN came from overseas to live with me. She came 2 years ago and is saving whilst working P/T & studying.

I'd prefer them to stay at home to save and make plans for their future rather than pay high rents, utilities, etc. She's got a good amount of money saved at this stage and she can continue in that way until she's ready to leave.

I am 24, 2 kids and a mortgage i moved out at 16.
People have always lived their lives differently though

Given where we are as a society these days, I don't expect my DC to move out before they reach their 30s. I do expect them to contribute towards the household expenses once they are employed though.

We’ve got a 27 year old who owns her own home. 25 year old living at home. 23 year old who rents a flat. 21 year old just finishing uni but has plans to remain where she did her degree and rent a flat with her friend.

It probably normal now but I’d never be living at home at that age. I moved out at 18 into a bedsit and worked my way up the ladder. No help from parents either. If you make them too comfortable they’ll never move out.

I am 31 single parent my daughter is 8. Currently living at my mums! This country is too hard to possibly just move out! Going private is so expensive! Not possible to get a council house either, been told many times after trying to seek help from the council! Luckily my mum has a 4 bed so we have our own rooms, and I do clean, pay rent, and buy my own food and cook for myself and my daughter.

But I can understand why people are still at home unfortunately! It's not easy, like everyone thinks.

I don't think it's quite that bleak - my kids came home after uni to a nice clean heated home, with lovely family meals every evening and they have loads of spare cash at the end of the month. If we were strict parents, or had frequent arguments or some other dysfunction they might have more incentive to fly the nest but at the moment it's too bloody comfortable and suits them very well. No freedom curtailed no sympathy needed (for them anyway).
I had hoped after Uni they fly the nest but it seems not...we may yet have to subsidise their exit, that seems to be the only way to get kids to move out now.🤔

I only know one 25 year old still at home. I’m 28. The only people who have mortgages are couples with two incomes. I don’t know any single 25 year olds that live alone, rented or bought. The single 25 year olds seem to rent with friends to cut costs.

I bought my house before COVID at 23. I was young but stayed at home during uni, the prices hadn’t gone totally crazy, and I banked my wages and lived on my student loan. I got lucky after uni with a full time job 3 months after graduation. My DH was in full time work in a good job and had savings from living at home during uni too. We got lucky but also had each other, no way would I have been able to buy alone on my graduate wage which was 19k!

Around here it is but I’ve seen threads where they are deemed to be lazy useless gits. It is so much harder in some parts of the country. Take a look at the cheapest flats or studios in your area and work out what he would need to earn to buy and the deposit he would need or what he would need to pay for rent and would he be able to save on it? A partner makes a huge difference.

There’s nothing unusual about this.
I stayed at home until I was 30, working full-time in a well-paying career as a solicitor. My parents never asked me for rent—I just covered the things I wanted myself.
Now, my younger sister and two younger brothers still live at home with our parents, enjoying well-paying WFH careers as software engineers.

Probably depends where you live, if DS had stayed at home he wouldn't have had a decent job as it's mainly warehouse type work around here or low paid admin jobs. He stayed in his university city, worked at his supermarket job full time to pay the rent while applying for graduate jobs

Good God yes absolutely normal @makethenet

Ds2 is in his late 20s and finding it hard to find a place and he doesn’t want to rent. On your own it’s not that easy and he works full time. We don’t live in a particularly expensive area, but it’s still pricy for a flat and those associated costs like ground rents and maintenance charges , which doesn’t help when you also have a mortgage. it’s hard , but if he wanted a rental he could move out. I’m sure he will at some stage, but it’s not easy for the young without a partner who works as well ( unless they are gifted a place or a chunk of money for the deposit)

Ive got a 24 and 26 year old at home, both went to Uni and bounced back. It’s fine, they are free to live with me as long as they need to.

Both my partner and I lived with our parents until we could afford to buy our home. If we had to leave earlier, neither of us would have been able to save due to the costs of renting.

Everyone we know who has managed to buy a home have either stayed with parents rent free until buying, or had wealthy parents who gifted them a big chunk of what they needed.

Everyone I know who moved out of their parents to rent, or paid their parents rent (like nearer actual rent amounts, not just token £10/ week board) are either still renting with no prospect of buying a home, or still with parents at nearing 40 with no prospect of buying a home.

It might be more common now but it's not a 'these days' thing.

All my friends went to Uni and moved back home to save afterwards...staying until our mid to late 20s and then buying our houses by a combination of doing so with a partner (mostly), saving ourselves and a bit of help from parents. This was nearly 20 years ago.

Those of us who lived at home for longer got on the property ladder before those who moved out earlier. So I don't understand why it seems to be judged on mumsnet...seems really short-sighted to me.

Nearly all my sons school friends still live at home as do some of his uni graduate flat mates. He has his own flat but that’s because there are no jobs in his profession within commuting distance from our home. Most of his friends have become teachers or other professions with more local job opportunities closer to their family homes. He was the first of his friendship group to get his own place but we helped him as he wouldn’t have been able to afford it on his own.

DS didnt leave for a while,
my own dm was rude to him about it

Work with a ton of twenty something year olds and they all live at home as far as I can see. I feel sorry for their generation, they should be enjoying their freedom!

His only 25 though there is many careers that take longer.
I had only been qualified a year after a 5 year degree at 25.
nearly 10 years later and I’m on 75k a year.

Yes I think it’s becoming common now. Renting is so expensive and properties or rent in the private sector are scarce where we live. I have my dd(25) her fiancée (26) and my son(22) living in my house. We have the space and all get on really well.
When I moved out (a very long time ago😀) rental accommodation was a bedsit in a hmo but they have disappeared in our area.
A deposit for a mortgage is unaffordable for most young people too.
Nearly all of my friends who own their own homes have have had help (inheritance, right to buy council house sold on at a profit, family money or they bought when deposits were low and mortgages were cheaper)
This country has a housing crisis but our government is doing nothing for our young people.

I would think quite normal these days. My DC are both on the ladder now with help from my exH and are both now in professional jobs post Uni. I would be really unhappy if they were paying rent, lining someone else’s pocket. We live up north though and I appreciate this is far harder in the south east.