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1.6m people aged 20-40 'living with parents'
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I've moved home temporarily for now, I'm 25. Just mainly to sort my finances out a bit.
Before this though I moved out for uni when I was 18 and never looked back. If people like living at home then why does it matter? It would mean less people getting in to debt and struggling to survive. You can still be an idependant adult and live at home, though obviously no one would want to forever!Debtfree!0 -
Brallaqueen wrote: »I can definitely see it having an impact on relationships. I'm not the most go-getting person in life and even I would side-eye someone living at home in their mid thirties, without good reason.
Home? why, where are they supposed to live
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
No I said they've probably worked between 4 and 9 years. 4 years if they went to University, 9 years (or possibly more?) if they went straight into work after school. Either way they seem to have taken a long time of 'saving like mad' to save actually very little.
I suppose very little is relative, as you don't no what they were earning and when exactly they bought you don't know how hard they saved.0 -
The ones who live at home have the opportunity to encourage their parents to keep drinking heavily on a daily basis ......No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
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GeorgeHowell wrote: »The ones who live at home have the opportunity to encourage their parents to keep drinking heavily on a daily basis ......
Perhaps the parents actually 'need' a drink in these circumstances.Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop0 -
I didn't have a problem saving to buy my house at 24, then again I have noticed that I seem to be dressed in cheaper clothes than most teens never mind people my age...
Can't believe how much crap people in my age bracket buy these days, 50% of the girls I work with think they are that woman off Sex and the city... Mulberry handbag but live at home... some irony in that.0 -
I didn't have a problem saving to buy my house at 24, then again I have noticed that I seem to be dressed in cheaper clothes than most teens never mind people my age...
Can't believe how much crap people in my age bracket buy these days, 50% of the girls I work with think they are that woman off Sex and the city... Mulberry handbag but live at home... some irony in that.
It's not Mulberry handbags the girls I know buy - it's bloody pushchairs. A new one every week ! Then they moan about having no money to go out on the lash. Priorities, methinks ...0 -
As a keen genealogist, looking back at my own very working class descendents, I note that they coped with this situation rather well.
The number of children in the 19th century typically fell between 8 and 12, and generally speaking they found enough space in their little two-up, two-down, tied cottages to live. As a general rule, though, once the eldest had reached 12, he or she was working and contributing to the household budget, and when space eventually got tight, and the eldest was not getting married, then the tecnique was to send a couple of kids out to farms (or well-do-do families) as live-in servants.
This leads me to two practical solutions for today:
1. We must all be allowed to take live-in servants at an economic wage. Weekly rent for a small room is easily worth £100, and so throwing £20 'pocket money' to the lad or lass would seem adequate recompense (with the rent) for a 40 hour week. All we need is the ability to divide the 40 hours up into 5 minute slots throughout the 24 hours in a day. i.e. whenever we need another gin & tonic pouring or whatever....
2. Sadly, farms are so mechanical these days that they don't need the labour. They do not, therefore, provide work, and so cannot bung 40 to 50 young lads on a bit of straw in the hayloft of cow sheds. Hence we must force our call centres, factories, and other places where the young work, to install hammocks to be fitted to the desks, shop floor, store cupboards, or stockrooms so that they live on the premises at a modest cost deducted from their minimum wage. Might stop them being late for work as well.
This sort of thing made us 'great' once. Surely it can do it again!
... large gin & tonics all round.....0
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