Living at home at 25, is it common?

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If you have DC around the age of 25, do you they still live at home?

DS is 25 and single and is still living at home saving for a mortgage, he works in a job at the moment where I am not sure how eh could manage financially by himself. His take home pay is around £1600 per month

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.

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)

Good God yes absolutely normal @makethenet

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

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.

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.

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!

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 think it’s common. Unless they move in with a partner and there’s two of them paying rent/mortgage. House share if they move away. Dd is moving away in the next few months, she’s 24yo and will be going into a flat share. I’m worried when her course ends she’ll come back in two years 🙈😂

I was still living at home at this age. It must depend on the family dynamics. Me and my DP are quite well matched in temperament which helped in hindsight. My DM used to spend a lot of weekends with my DFs parents when they were younger so they didn't find anything weird about DH staying over before we got married.

It probably helped that we were saving for deposits and had aspirations of moving out. It must be very different with no end in sight.

30 year old owns own home with her DH.

28 yr old living with BF's parents saving (means they can walk to work)

25 year old still at home with no plans to leave 👍 Living a great life!

Youngest DC 10 year old here also.

Weve got loads of space so love them being here and their rooms are still here for them if they want to come back also. Which has happened more than once!

It was quite common in the 90s as well. My uncle was living at home and he was 32.

Coincidently, both of mine moved out at 25, although I wasn't able to afford it until I was 27.
I don't think it is a "these days" issue.

All mine in their 20s and still at home. HMO would be 800. Studio 1200. 1 bed 1400. All plus bills and food. They prefer to stay home and enjoy their lives for 300 all in. They earn between 30 and 47k.

They have no hope of buying without partners or significant cash help and I can’t afford to help them. They’ll probably have to wait until me or their Dad die.

They were saving hard but then all decided it’s not worth it. A flat would be minimum 325k and they’d have to have no life for a decade or two. So they’re just not playing the game. They all talk about moving abroad. In reality I will probably downsize when I retire and give them as much as I can - then kick them out!

I think it’s common but I don’t understand the appeal at all. I left at 19 and never looked back! Most of my friends did the same. The ones who had an extended period at home after university generally stayed in their home town, the ones that flew the nest early are now scattered across London, Singapore, New York, Chicago, LA, Australia, HK, Bermuda and the Middle East.

The appeal for many is that, by not paying a commercial rent for 2 years or so means they will be able to then save enough for a deposit to buy their own house.
Once you are paying commercial rent saving a deposit becomes a very long haul.