Boomarang Generation?

Question

Those born between 1977 - 1986

The term 'boomerang' refers to the commonality with which these young adults choose to move back home with their parents after a brief period of living on their own, usually college, or to never move out in the first place

citing Canadian census statistics showing that in 1981 27.5% of Canadians aged 20-29 lived with their parents; in 2001 the figure had grown to 41%

So Two Questions...

1. Have you moved back in with your parents?

2. What would cause this trend?

Answer 1

1) I do live with my parents, but I have half of the house to myself four days a week and the entire house to myself on the weekends (friday-sunday).

2)The cost of living is higher with a decrease in jobs that pay well enough to afford living on your own. Jobs leave because both parties are pawns to the corporations. The corporations are only about profits.

Answer 2

Yes

I spent a few years on my own right after high school with time to do nothing but work a c**p job that barely covered the rent.  When I kept having to come to my dad for financial help, he made me an offer to come live with him and go back to school full time so that the next time I went out on my own I'd have an education and a better footing to succeed.  Sure it sucks having that "I live with my parent" label, but in the long run I know that I never would have been able to go to school or at least wouldn't have been able to complete credits so fast without this living situation and I am forever in debt to him for helping me out when I needed it most.

I'd rather be a "loser" who still lives at home with a bright future than barely scraping by with the "independent" label.

Answer 3

No.

While there are legitimate reasons for moving back home, they are far and few. I know many people you have moved back home because they were ill prepared for real life. After living in that liberal world we call home where most of what we want or need is provided for us, the real world comes as a shock to these individuals. Things like work, saving money, shopping for food and paying numerous bills depresses these individuals. In the new world of extended adolescence, I expect more young adults to move back home because they know little of hard work.

Answer 4

I did move back home - well with my grandmother.  After graduate school I got a job closer to home.  This way I could stay home for a few months and bank most of my paycheck because I wasn't paying rent.  I did give pay for utilities while I was there.  It also actually helped my family out because my grandmother is ill and for a while my mom and aunt would alternate nights to spend with her so she wouldn't be alone.  I did that for about 6 months and I still go home almost every weekend to give my family a break.  

What could cause this trend?  Rising debt.  Especially for college students who rack up an obscene amount of debt between student loans and credit card debt and moving home helps to decrease financial burden.  You don't have to pay rent, you probably don't even have to pay utilities or buy groceries.

Answer 5

1. Yes. Until I got a good job.

2.Form over fashion.

Moving home is CHEAPER and lets you save your money without living on Macaroni and cheese for many years. It makes sense and its a very savvy move.

Again FORM over FASHION. Living on your own is "fashionable" but not necessarily practical.

Answer 6

No.

People graduating from college not knowing where to go. Also, it's cheaper and there is usually better food.

Answer 7

That would be a nightmare of epic proportions. I will live in a gutter before moving back home.

Answer 8

I have never moved back home.

Capone hit the nail on the head.  Yes living on your own is expensive but most of the kids who move home can afford it they just don't want to.  It's just so much easier to live for free with mommy and daddy.  Then you can have a nice car and fancy clothes with foo foo labels.

Kids are spoilt and feel that everything should be handed to them these days.  

I know, I know it's a generalization but that's the kind of question we're working right now.

Answer 9

i have. afer finishing uni.

i would have my own pad now if it wasnt for some private reasons i wont get into. ive never been one to stay home. even when i was young i wanted my own place.

im back at university this september. my course will last a year and will cost alot (which im paying for) and will be very intense. although i was going to move back out, it makes sense to stay home and concentrate on my studies for a year than having worries of paying rent and bills.

pisses me of to an extent, but it makes sense.

Answer 10

I've heard of this - but NOTHING would persuade me to move back in with my parents lol.  I've tasted freedom now, and there's no going back :-)

Answer 11

I personally have not moved back in with my parents.  I had my mom live with me briefly when she moved here from AZ.  that was only about a month till she found a place of her own.

Divorce would possibly cause you to move back in with your parents until you back back on your feet..as well as losing your job!!  With the way the economy is these days....I bet it's happening more and more!!

Answer 12

I moved back in with my parents when I was 19 and 22, both for a few months after I'd been abroad, so I could get back on my feet. There was no way I could afford a place until I got a job, the rents here (south east England) are through the roof. It was nice to stay with them for awhile, but I'd find it very hard to do now (six years later).

I've known a few people who've stayed with their parents for a year or so to save up for a deposit for a house etc.

Answer 13

1. No.

2. Nothing would cause that to happen in my case. They are both dead.

Answer 14

1.No I have not.

2.People are to lazy to take care of themselves. Blame everything  on everyone else (my job sucks because my boss yada yada) and is afraid of a little hard work.

To feed off of your aging parents pockets because its practical and it saves you money is horrible.

Answer 15

1. Nope.

2. Growing financial burden from a every widening wage gap makes it hard for many to live alone and the materialistic way of thinking for many has placed he option of living in a home with 9 people and triple bunk set-ups out of the question.

Answer 16

While I am not part of that generation I did had to move back with my parents in the past.

The reason at where at first that my business went bankrupt and I have no where to live. Later my mother got to be blind and had a brain-struck that paralyzed her body. and there was no one to take care of her.  It was a period of h**l, but at the same time one that I don't regret.

The reason for this trend is that salaries have grown in a much slower rate than property prices.  The reason is what is called a flexible workforce. Since there are more persons than jobs available (feminist are responsible for this), companies are the ones that decide what to pay you and when and if they want to raise your salaries. So over the years there salaries almost stopped, while properties raised a lot.

This resulted into average Joe and Average Jane being forced to work. And for that work a lot more and put their work above their families. We even created a culture around it and many people believe the BS that people are lazy if they put their families over their jobs.

Well I got news for all this people. 87% of the USA profit is not made by hard working persons. Is made by speculators. I didn't know it until I became one myself. Now I make more in a month, that I was making in a year working for someone else. Plus I got a lot of time for myself. I take calculated risk, but I prefer to risk instead of being a slave for someone else and then end up having a pension that leaves the minute I go to collect it.

Answer 17

No, i haven't, ever since i left at 17 to join the Army. Went through 1 bad marriage, tough it out for 5 years, then i met my current wife. I rather go live with my siblings than my mother. (Father is dead) Can't live with her and her feminists ways. Then again, I'm not part of that generation.

Answer 18

I moved in with them for a week when my marraige ended, and later moved in with them for a year to help take care of my ailing father.

I think most who do it do it out of financial reasons.

Answer 19

1.yes. i was homeless for a time and had no where else to turn. I had just gone through a domestic seperation losing half of the income i depended on for rent, i was laid off from a good job, and simply needed a place.

2. look at the ages here. no one in this group is over 30 or under 18. they have moved out of fast food and teenage jobs because they can be replaced with less experienced workers who require less pay (teenagers).

in a generation where no one wants to hire without a college education and college is averaging age 25 for completion,  they likley either havent attained a degree yet, or havent had it long enough to have settled into their carreer. so the money isnt exactly pouring in for most of them. this leads them to seek out any type of secure living situation possible and since parents veiw their college aged offspring as kids... they are allowed.

this question relates very well with a previous one i answered a while back. check it out here.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 20

1) Nope once I was gone, I was gone for good.

2) I think a few things are responsible for this. Financial burdens being the biggest. We all want our own lavish places to live and most find the idea of living in a sh*thole apartment with 6 other people very unappealing. The widening wage gap makes it hard for many to live alone, let alone live well.

I think many also leave college without any direction. From birth through college most people have been guided into and away from things. After graduation, you truly are on your own to fend for yourself. Most people don't plan ahead for situations like that. After graduation many don't have a place to live and they haven't started looking for jobs yet.  It makes things confusing for some people so it's easier to just move back in with mom and dad until you can figure out what to do to get up on your feet.

Answer 21

1.  Yes, I currently reside with my parents.  I moved in with them when I left my husband.  

2.  Its really difficult to live on your own in this day and age.  Although I could technically afford to move out on my own at this time, it would be financially irresponsible for me to do so.  Unlike the men on here would have you believe...I got nothing but a load of debt in my divorce.  So, I have to do whats best for my daughter and I and even though (as Mike T said) its not really considered "cool" or whatever to live with your parents...its the right thing for me to do until I am more financially stable.