A Boomerang Kid is someone who moves back in with their parents after graduating college. The stay can last several months to years. Government figures show that more than half of male Brits in their early 20’s live back at home. The numbers are similar here in the US. Free food, free rent and relative autonomy make it a pretty sweet deal. But piqued parents are having trouble coping and are even turning to helplines for advice.
The study cites massive student debt, difficulty entering the housing ladder, later marrying, and general fear of failure particularly for males as the main reasons.
I moved out when I was 18. When did you?
18..never going back
I was a dorm kid all through college, so I lived with my parents in the summers and moved back in after graduation. I stayed for about nine months while my internship grew into a real job and while my roommate-to-be house-hunted.
That was four years ago. My mom still asks me sometimes if I wouldn't like to move back in. I just laugh.
P.S. What a nasty tone this article takes toward twentysomethings! Abusing drugs and alcohol, emotionally and even physically abusing their parents, expecting their parents to be maids for them ... all written as fact without any sources to back it up. It's pretty clear that the author of this piece thinks that these young adults belong not in their own apartments, but in prison cells.
I'm 19 now and I haven't moved out yet... Well I spend most of the week(5 days) at my "student residence", I'm at University...
But I'm hoping to move out as soon as I get my Degree in Psychology...
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18. Haven't gone back. I know a bunch of folks who've moved back in, though, or never moved out - nothing wrong with it.
22. Still at home... crazy to get out!
I moved out when I left for college and never went back. In Australia it's quite common for folks to stay at home through college and even afterwards for a little while. But I have one friend who moved back at 26 and is still living at home at 34. She's having trouble meeting a man, I wonder if it's related.
I moved out when I graduated high school. Worked a year and ended up in the Navy.
I think a bit has to do with role models males have to look up to nowadays, and of course the guaranteed debt you will incur at college.
I grew up looking up to men like my Dad, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, James Colburn, etc. Today you have Napoleon Dynamite, Hugh Grant, Seth Rogen (the list, sadly, goes on)....WTF? No wonder you don't know your place in life, much less where your penis is.