Ironically my recent graduate is the only one NOT at home at present!
Eldest two both finished uni in June 2020. Eldest got a TA job locally as couldn’t face WFH, has done that for two years and is about to start a PGCE locally in September. She applied to other places and I was trying to encourage her to move out but she decided staying at home would be cheaper and easier. For her! 😃
Second one did a masters, lived away from home for about half, but life and the course were so restricted still and so little in person contact, that she was at home for quite a lot of it. Now works from home freelance. Wants to move out but a bit concerned about high cost of living at present - I think she will be looking seriously again later in the year when her work usually calms down a little.
Third has a job starting in 3 weeks, girlfriend, and flat in their uni city. Barring disaster I can’t imagine he’ll ever be living at home again. In fact the second one has taken over his bedroom so she has a separate office and bedroom!
And the youngest had an abortive start at uni last autumn, came home in January and is going again in September. Doing very little but seems happy again which is the main thing!
We don’t give the youngest any money, other than still paying her £10pcm phone bill, but she has only just run out of her first term’s loan - hated being there so hardly spent any money doing anything! And she has some savings that will get her through the summer. (For various reasons she hasn’t got a job - had ideally hoped she could have done but wasn’t to be.)
And we don’t charge the older two rent - we don’t need it, and charging a token amount seemed pointless. If we were to charge them full market rate so they got used to it that would be a huge amount. They’ve both been saving, which we prefer. But we do expect them to be fully-functioning adult household members - so no leaving the kitchen like a bomb’s hit it etc. They do laundry, cooking, look after the dog, and so on. If they pick up dinner on the way home from work or do a top up shop, they don’t expect to be recompensed for it.
So we all run along quite happily and tbh having someone around is very useful for my dog who hates being alone. This is my only worry about dd2 moving out!