Still living at home

52% of 18 to 29 year old's are still living with one or more of their parents.

This number surpasses the previous record of 48%, which was set in 1940.

The lowest percentage of 18 to 29 year old's living at home was 29% in 1960.

Worthless, but Interesting stats. I was YOYO (your on your own) at 17 by choice.

What age were you when you flew the nest for good?

18 for me, never looked back.

21.

But now at 50, I'm pulling my parents out of the prisoner camp of a retirement community and moving back in with them in me. Moving to the country. They were gracious enough to get me through the first 21 years (with out killing me) and I will happily help them through their final years.

18.

went to college at 18, granulated at 22, got a job, moved forward...never thought of moving back home...wish i had visited them more...at age 70, i miss my mother and daddy...God bless you, Dave-0, for caring for yours

I left home at 17 and have never been back.

Those recent numbers are inflated due to COVID too. Not an excuse but it's the current reality. I know a few who had to move back in with their folks temporarily due to lay offs or other transitions.

18. Moved out the day after I graduated high school.

26 for me. I waited 5 years before entering college outta HS and then graduated and moved home for the summer. Grandma died and I moved into her house until I met my wife and we got our own place. My daughter is 25 and still living with us......and her stinkin' meowing cat! All I know is that I have softened over the years.

21.

18 to join the Marine Corps.

I moved out at 18, had a lowlife room mate who decided not to pay rent. Moved back at 19 for 6 months, then out permanently

17 once I graduated

Did he help himself to your bologna when you were away?

18 for me. Graduated HS and moved out that weekend. I had about a day and a half to get things lined out at my new place, and left for a 30 day hitch on a drilling rig in the Oklahoma panhandle.

Joined the USAF at 19

Me too, however, all our kids ages 19, 21, and 22 are all still at home. They just can’t seem to cut the cord from mamma.

I’ve never liked bologna

Air Force at 18..

went off to college at 17,never went back...was raised in small town in east Tenn....not many jobs so had to go elsewhere....

Stayed at my folks house the summer after my freshman year in college. After that I was either in summer school at UT or in Vietnam with the US Army and 500K+ of my closest friends. When I got home from Nam I spent one week at home, found an apartment and left for good.

Off to college at 17. Left college a couple years later to join the USAF. Did finish the degree before I retired from the military. Parents actually moved to a new house/town a month before I graduated from high school and didn't sell the house until a month or so later, so I was living there alone for the last month of high school.

I moved out at 17, a month before I graduated from HS in 1975. Dad gave me his last "My House, My Rules" speech. But my best friends youngest daughter still lives at home with them after graduating 4 years ago with a law degree. The problem is her $250,000 in student loans. She is paying them off and plans to move out when she is debt free. Sooner or later the expense of putting someone through college will have to be addressed. It shouldn't be just for the wealthy or those lucky enough to get a scholarship. I worked full time and it took me 8 years to graduate, but I did it debt free. No way could I do that today.

19 but not my choice, my folks moved to a different state and I had a girlfriend I "loved" so I could not move with them. Broke up 3-4 months later and I could not stomach going back to my folks house.

My son is 22 and lives at home, I told him we will only pay for college if he lives at home to save cash. UNT is 25 minutes away. He is chompin at the bit to leave though.

This was me also. Had a job waiting on me that I had to be at the next Monday.

Left at 17. Came back for a few months after about a year of traveling the state and country. Left again at 19 for good.

I haven’t lived at my parents house since I was 18.

Enrolled at UT in Austin at 17yo (started kindergarten in Asia at 4yo, so a year ahead)
Parents moved to Jakarta, Indonesia when I was 19yo; then to Bahrain when I was 26yo
They didn’t return to the USA until I was 40.

14.............Broken home and Family , joined the Marines

Left home at 21.

Stayed home while commuting to college, then left to move to Pennsylvania for grad school at 21.

about 14 1/2 I moved in with my best friends older sister (purely platonic, her bf and I got along good). worked at sonic and pumped gas till 17 and took ged and enlisted.

got tired of drunks for parents and the abuse that came with it.

18 and into my own apartment.

15 for me. Raised in a Orphanage and wanted greener pastures. Never looked back.

18 for me.... It`s amazing that none of those adults still living with mama and daddy have not commented yet. Amazing !!!

I was 20 years old ! Enjoying my retired my life. Would hate to have to go work the way this world has gotten!

19 years old.

Wanted my own pad, so I could do what I wanted and bring chicks home anytime I wanted

I was raised in the wild by a pack of woffs from around 4 years of age, if memory serves me correctly.

Dropped off in Minden La. 2 months after I turned 18. Started trade school at Northwest LA Vo-tech (Machine Shop Technology & Practice) now called Northwest Louisiana Technical Community College. Graduated at 19 and purchased 28 acres west of Marshall Tx the year I turned 20, been paying my way ever since.

Nope. Graduated the end of May 1984, moved from a town of about 3000 people to Phoenix Arizona a week later to go to trade school UTI. I was blessed with the best parents on the planet. I’m now returning the favor and I’m a caregiver for my 93-year-old dad who lives on our place with us.

Makes sense living at home.
There are housing markets like California that rent and buy are out of reach for most people.

I started hitting the professional bowling tour and was really doing well until I lost my hand.

Even in Texas the housing market, owning or renting, makes it virtually impossible for a single person to afford a place of their own when they have a degree and an average job. It just costs way too much in DFW, at least for a decent, secure and safe area...

Haven't you ever been told to keep it outta the cookie jar? Your hand, that is....

18

Is there still a market for Shorthand?

USN boot at 18.

Moved in with my uncle at 18, my Uncle Sam that is lol. Then after I ETS'd I lived at home in the summers and vacation cause college dorms closed.

As soon as I graduated from HS I was gone. Spent 6 months in the mountains of CO in a tent catching trout and enjoying life and then off to Navy bootcamp. Never looked back.

18 moved to Lackland AFB for boot camp

18. 7 days after graduating HS my butt was on the way to boot camp.

18, The day after H.S. Graduation. Worked at our family farm until the Wheat was sown and off to the Army.

17 but started working at 14(Kroger’s) Moved to Austin (Round Rock) right when the construction boom began.

21

I moved out at 6, and started working in a coal mine.

Left the nest at 18

we knew how to party in the 60s.

it was such a simple time.

can we revert?

they only had to know 2 friggin words! oh lollipop!

and yeah the second from the right looks like a guy.

“People bowl here?”

“People live here. They die here. They get their mail here.”

Good on you, sir. We don't get to pick 'em, but we sure got to love them. Good or bad, they teach us.

I was 20 when I moved out.

Moved out and married at 19.
Rented for 10 years saving for a house.
Bought a house paid for it in 20 years.
Now I pay the state 2400 a year in property taxes.
So I rent my home from the state

was 18 for me, but just last night we moved back into my dads for the time between home closings. So till the 14th I'm living at home again. I guess I can do it for a week.

17 and no return .

We'll see!

Sorry to hear that, you really got Munsoned.

Left at 18 to got to ATM, came home first 2 summers. Moved back for about 9mnths to save for a House after graduation never went back.

College at 18, had job lined up and place soon as I graduated at 22. I was a late in life kid and always figured after nonstop kids in the house for 40 years the least I could do was give them peace and quiet.

18 straight from HS to USN Boot Camp.

17, the wife 16----we got hitched. NO she was not prego. First kid 4 years later he left @ 18, second kid left @ 18.

An old gentlemans advice.... If you make it to comfortable for them, they'll never leave.

If you don't get them out of the house by the mid 20's, they will become a parasite and never leave