Housing Shortage Forces Millions of Adults to Live With Parents

lisyloo

I don't see why some people feel the need to be judgmental and intolerant of other people's choices when it doesn't even affect them anyway.

Does it not affect all of us?
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants appear to be able to come here, find work, set up businesses and live somewhere.
Yet our young people can't do it?

Does it not affect all of us in our society if our young don't have a good work ethic and would rather stay home with mum & dad because it's easy.

Anyone else see that TV program with Nick and Margaret from Alan Sugars Apprentice.
They took a bunch of old people and put them back to work and a bunch of younsters too.
The old folk didn't manage too well, weren't quick enough in the factory, some of them weren't computer literate enough, the builders and trades people found it physically very hard going and some of them needed time off for hospital appointments, BUT they all had a great work ethic with the tradesmen working in the rain etc.

A number of the youngsters didn't even bother turning up and didn't even perceive the need to ring in.

I'm playing devils advocate to a degree, and of course we shouldn't tar anyone with the same brush, but it does appear that something is wrong when our people can't find work or set up businesses but thousands upon thousands of foreigners can.

Maybe Mum & Dad have made it a bit too comfy.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lisyloo wrote: »

Maybe Mum & Dad have made it a bit too comfy.

Yep.

Mum, Dad, and the Nanny-State.

pickledonionspaceraider

J_i_m wrote: »

Hmm, yeah. But I think the perceived "stigma" says more about the person making that judgment than it does about the 30-something who lives with a parent.

Again, it's down to personal choice and circumstances. I don't see why some people feel the need to be judgmental and intolerant of other people's choices when it doesn't even affect them anyway.

I am not the only person who thinks like that..... 30's is well into adulthood and seems a joke to expect parents to continually fund you almost until you are in middle age.

Parents deserve a life too you know - they do not just exist for the rest of their lives to give their middle aged adult offspring an easy ride

I think some mums and dads have made it too comfy too, and scarily its becoming the norm where grown adults cannot find independance.

By 30 years old, you have been left school 16 years, so long enough to figure this stuff out...........

Graham_Devon

pickledonionspaceraider wrote: »

I am not the only person who thinks like that..... 30's is well into adulthood and seems a joke to expect parents to continually fund you almost until you are in middle age.

Parents deserve a life too you know - they do not just exist for the rest of their lives to give their middle aged adult offspring an easy ride

I think some mums and dads have made it too comfy too, and scarily its becoming the norm where grown adults cannot find independance.

By 30 years old, you have been left school 16 years, so long enough to figure this stuff out...........

Sometimes life throws you a curveball, and you are not always in a position to deal with it.

Thankfully, some families still appear to look out for one another.

pickledonionspaceraider

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Sometimes life throws you a curveball, and you are not always in a position to deal with it.

Thankfully, some families still appear to look out for one another.

Indeed, except It seems to becoming more of a culture, than a one off 'curve ball'.

Percy1983

pickledonionspaceraider wrote: »

I am not the only person who thinks like that..... 30's is well into adulthood and seems a joke to expect parents to continually fund you almost until you are in middle age.

Parents deserve a life too you know - they do not just exist for the rest of their lives to give their middle aged adult offspring an easy ride

I think some mums and dads have made it too comfy too, and scarily its becoming the norm where grown adults cannot find independance.

By 30 years old, you have been left school 16 years, so long enough to figure this stuff out...........

To the highlighted part...

What if you give your parents more money than it costs to keep you, are you not then funding them. Thinking back to how my parents had less disposable income after I moved out.

kabayiri

pickledonionspaceraider wrote: »

Indeed, except It seems to becoming more of a culture, than a one off 'curve ball'.

The irony being that for some immigrant cultures, this is more of a norm.

chucknorris

samsam89 wrote: »

I'm 25 and my girlfriend is 24. We're desperate to get on the property ladder but there aren't many affordable houses out there for us, and the ones that are just about affordable simply aren't suitable (i.e. flats, maisonettes and retirement bungalows in the area we live in) for what we need.

Why is a flat/maisonette unsuitable? It could be your starter home, allowing you to build up some equity to use to buy a house later.

pickledonionspaceraider

Percy1983 wrote: »

To the highlighted part...

What if you give your parents more money than it costs to keep you, are you not then funding them. Thinking back to how my parents had less disposable income after I moved out.

Then if they are happy with the arrangement that is great, but I find it unlikely that parents would charge the going rate for a bedsit + food + utilities + use of facilities etc. A lot of rebounders seem to live with parents so they can save a house deposit

IMO it's not just about money though. There's also the element of personal space and a private life that parents are going to have less of, having another adult in the house. Must be a right passion killer to have your grown up offspring in the next door bedroom :rotfl:or , on the other hand, for the offspring themselves.

Percy1983

pickledonionspaceraider wrote: »

Then if they are happy with the arrangement that is great, but I find it unlikely that parents would charge the going rate for a bedsit + food + utilities + use of facilities etc. A lot of rebounders seem to live with parents so they can save a house deposit

IMO it's not just about money though. There's also the element of personal space and a private life that parents are going to have less of, having another adult in the house. Must be a right passion killer to have your grown up offspring in the next door bedroom :rotfl:or , on the other hand, for the offspring themselves.

Well in my case I wasn't paying the going rate but Iw as paying more than it cost to keep me.

So I gained, as you say it made saving easier and they gained as they had more money than they would have had otherwise.