Is anyone else here single but living with their parents well into their 30s?

i honestly don't know how young people today make it at all, least of all if they're in a high COL area. my son is 25 and even if he earned three times what he currently earns, he'd likely only be able to afford to move out if he had a [working] wife or roommate. let alone earning what he does. moving out is an impossibility for him unless we were to heavily subsidize him. (which i'm willing to do, but he views it as "if i have to depend on you for living expenses, it's not really moving out at all, is it?")

i know quite a few people in your demographic who live independently, but in nearly all cases, it's a matter of lucking into a job at my current company, where we pay above market... and i can tell you none of them have money for extras, even those who earn by all accounts 'respectable livings'.

i'm actually trying to think about this right now, and i can think of virtually no one i know who is 30 or under, living independently, without a roommate/partner or the help of a parent. there are a lot of awesome things about being a millennial, but this is not one of them.

so while i can't personally relate (have been on my own since i was 19... but was born at a different time. pay was lower, but so was the cost of literally everything else. and even then, for all those years - 19 to 44 - only three of them was i truly on my own. and i had the debt load and bad credit to go along with it).

i have a feeling a lot of people reading this can relate. i know i can. i know my son can. i know my friends' 20s+ kids can. i think even my young coworkers who earn 'good money' can, even if only by virtue of the fact that their dollars stretch just so far to afford a modest apartment in a not-great part of town.

again, high COL area, but still.

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