My kids still live at home

They’re just poor.

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Grown people (20ish) and seem to love living at home with the parents. I was ready to go. Is life outside the parents home more difficult today than yesteryear?

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It's usually free or at the very least severely discounted, and with technology now you're never out of touch with friends. That along with the rising cost of housing it makes more sense that it did back in the day.

Gurantee this turns into a millennial bashing thread.

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Is life outside the parents home more difficult today than yesteryear?

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Life is more expensive.

But it is mostly because parents are just more welcoming to their kids than yesteryear.

You failed and now enable them

Had to do a double take on the OP. Could've sworn it was Slippy.

I get that college is about a million times more expensive now than it was 30 years ago.

But if it was that expensive back then, I'd have been in basic training immediately after finishing high school. There would have been no thought of keeping some crappy minimum wage job and staying home.

Do they currently have good jobs?

Its your damn fault. Kick them out or give them a deadline. YOu will do them a favor.

I moved out the Summer after my HS graduation and never spent a single night at home again. My daughter on the other hand , recently informed me that she’d rather live at home than in the dorm at LSU .

Kids imho are just much younger emotionally than we were . I think that our generation, which was an under- parented generation overcompensated by over- parenting. And we now have a generation that can’t cut the cord as easily as we did.

In my mid 30s, moved out at 19. Looking back that was retarded, I could have saved so much money and at 19 still pretty much lived as I pleased. I wish I would have stayed there till 21 or 22 and saved up half my paycheck over that time.