What do you think of guys living with their parents/family in your mid 20s?

[MusicTokuXX]

Why do people criticize you for living with your parents as an adult? When did living with your parents become a bad thing? You want him to be alone? To struggle in life alone? Dude living with your family is better than drowning alone! Like come on!

[MrOracle]

It's actually a lot more common today, but that's largely because the cost of a one-bedroom apartment used to be about 24% of the average 25-year olds salary, while today, it's nearly 70%.

Wages have been stagnant since the 70s, when women entered the workforce in significant numbers for the first time, which also led to a big increase in the demand for housing, as fewer and fewer people are living together - more single people means more individual housing is needed.

And for the last 20 years or so, there was a big push to hire more women (and thus fewer men) regardless of qualifications or ability, because companies were being pressured to equalize the numbers, productivity be damned. This made it more difficult for men to get hired for low and mid-level office jobs - the kind that tend to fund men being able to move out on their own. This also became a contributing factor for men not going to college - when they realized the debt they would graduate with, and their poor prospects of getting a job in that field, many turned either to blue collar jobs or took a chance and started a small business.

[WonderingManII]

I am 46 and living with my parents because I'm not smart enough to be able to make it out on my own.

[DishLady]

It's fine. Where else are you supposed to live? Save up, stay in whoever has the best insurance plan and build a secure nest egg so you can be independent and married in your early 30s.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

It’s the new normal, and also heavily shamed because the generation before you was able to take advantage of the housing market crash so they call them successes instead.

[Cutegirl06]

It's expensive to live on your own rents are so expensive.