Is a 27 year old living at home that rate anymore

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I would have thought it was common place

Where I live most people that age have moved out. I know one girl who's 26 and she's still living at home though to save for a deposit. She already has quite a substantial amount saved but she's single so she needs that much more to be able to afford a mortgage. It's a difficult one because she stays at home on evenings and weekends to save money but she won't meet anyone (she has said she'd like to) by staying home and not going out which would make it easier to afford a place as they'd have two incomes

I think this judgment is very harsh. For those who are single and on a low wage, it’s not always that easy. It very much depends on a persons circumstances, I know people living with their parents in their 30s and it’s not because they have ‘something wrong with them’.

It’s the times we live in. Costs of living are so expensive. Lots of jobs are underpaid, and people can’t afford it on one wage, it’s not a choice. If not for my partner I would still be living with my parents.

shouting into the void on MN.....!
why refer to easily googleable actual statistics when you can instead rely on the subjective views of self-selecting individuals with limited experience in the field?

but just to give it another go:
on average approx 30% of men and 13% of women live with their parents aged 27 last year.
www.statista.com/statistics/285330/young-adults-living-with-parents-uk-by-age-and-gender/

so no, it's not rare overall in the uk, but, obviously may differ regarding how common it is on multiple factors, including region, sex, parents income, etc.

Thank goodness that I don't love in your area. People there sound quite judgemental. (And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't live with parents).

*live

The op had a habit of asking a question and then never returning.

The only 20/30 somethings (in my area) that were able to move out that I know of, was either because there was a high earning partner. Or one I knew had a huge inheritance. Not something to be proud of particularly.

It's pathetic that there are still people who judge. It's ridiculously expensive and just not do able for many people, especially those that are single and not on mega high wages.

@TheLostNights I think that is true of middle-class people, but not working-class people. My family working in jobs like call centres and nursery nurse all moved out to rented places.

I know 3 people aged over 27 still living with their parents

I don't know any 27 year olds that still live at home and I know several 24-30yo.

Not all went to uni, not all got parental help with rent or deposit. So not sure what the common denominator is.

I feel like I'm having déjà-vu!! Isn't there a live thread like talking about this now?

For me living in London at that age it was very rare. However, when I met DP who had grown up in zone 2/3 the majority of his friends still lived at home and now we’re in our 30s some of them still do!

I feel a bit guilty saying this but if I’d met him a few months before I did when he was 29 and still living at home, I don’t think id even have considered going on a date with him having lived out of my parents house for almost 12 years at that point.

It depends on where you live.

I cannot imagine a nursery nurse or carer being able to afford rent as a single person in London. Not sure how you know these people @antelopevalley

Not everyone lives in London. But they could still rent a room in London as I did when I lived there earning low wages.

I moved out and relocated at 19/20, and I only stopped at home once in that time (nearly ten years).

I've lived in house shares + currently in a bedsit. Ever since moving out, I got into a lot of debt, went to uni to get out of debt (yes, I have student debt, but it's like another tax), and now I should have enough to deposit in 2 years. It's been a long journey, but once I can get a house, it'll be my most significant achievement to date without any help from my parents or any form of inheritance. I've had to work throughout my studies too.

But most people I know still live at home with their parents, apart from those who got a career early on and got help from their parents with a deposit.

Whereas I know LOADS.

Just shows that anecdotal "evidence" depends so much on circumstances.

I have siblings that age. One moved out but has moved back following a relationship breakdown, and the second has been trying to buy for a year and finally seems to have found somewhere (expensive part of the country) but amongst their friends it’s not unusual to still be living at home.

They are. Half of us are related in some form or other, most of us have several generations within stones throw and you’re in incomer until you’ve got at least three generations in adulthood here 😂as a result we’ve all got thick skin, nobody is afraid of confrontation, we police ourselves and going to the shop in your jammies isn’t a massive issue.

Everyone knows each other, everyone knows each other’s business and the shop still does tick to locals. If you park over someone’s drive you leave your keys in the visor so they can move it, nobody locks their doors, nobody knocks and waits for an answer when visiting and if a kid needs a bollocking you just give them it, regardless of who’s kid it is.

In many places demand for rentals is far outstripping supply.

There's a real rental crisis in Manchester, for example, where many people have had to make a choice between living at home with parents or being homeless.

These are scary times and it's just getting worse.