Younglings at home....

[GrumpyGregry]

Do these live at home adults pay rent and living expenses, or are they freeloading?

In our case they all make an appropriate(ly painful) contribution to their 'keep'.

 

[User482]

Wages tend to be higher too in the SE....

My brother recently moved to London from Manchester, and reckoned most of his £10k salary bump was going back out on higher rent.

 

[Markymark]

I don't have any kids but i live on an ever developing new housing development and have recently noticed 3-4 bedroom houses with garages being built with accommodation over the garages. I asked one of the sales staff why this was so and she explained that during the last phase of houses that her company built they were inundated with requests for separate/annex accommodation for just this and so they amended and resubmitted their plans to the county council and have apparently done so on all their developments now.

I believe that's popular in Spain too. I asked someone why you saw so many house that had unfinished roofs (scaffolding, cables etc). I was told that firstly, it was to save paying tax as the property wasn't 'finished' but it was used to build new levels of accommodation for new generations throughout the decades. As the kids grew up, you just paid for a new floor to be built and up it went.

 

[PK99]

One boomerang in residence, but she hopes to exchange contracts on a flat* in the next few days, so should soon be gone.

One boomerang in flight ie at Uni. If she ends up working in London, no doubt she will be back in due course

* The upside of parents dying early, is that money we inherited from grandparents the kids never saw is there to be passed on as a deposit. How anyone without that "benefit" can afford to buy in London baffles me!

 

[marinyork]

Makes the news from time to time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19936477

 

[ColinJ]

A general question to the group.
Do these live at home adults pay rent and living expenses, or are they freeloading?
I left home at 25, but paid a reduced rent to my mum whilst I was employed, it was a token offering, and for that i got full board and lodging, with laundry service. It was a bargain, and I do wonder if some of these adults are finding it just too easy to stay at home, instead of roughing it in the big bad world.

I didn't leave home until I was 28 and was well aware that my parents had been letting me freeload for several of those years. My final year there was spent working a night shift with overtime - I was saving to go to university and my opportunities for wasting money down the pub were limited. I started paying £70 a week board and lodging, which was well above the going rate in 1982!

 

[fossyant]

I got married and moved out at 25. My two sisters and brother did similar things, all gone before tHey were 30 and all had own homes.

That said I have two mates still at home at the age of 44. I can also see my nephews and nieces being at their folks for some time, all 20 to 25. A few of my colleagues have older kids at home, and it drives them nuts as some of them are content to lay about all day. At least some of your children here have jobs, but the cost of buying a house now is astronomical.

 

[Frood42]

Left home to go to Uni, have not lived back at home since.
I am in London, biggest expense is rent, but I landed quite lucky with my current accomodation and its not bad for the price.

I go home for Christmas for about a week to visit the family, but having moved out I don't really want to go live back home, I wouldn't mind living back in Suffolk, just not at home (I do love them both!).

Of course, there are some with limited choices.
My sister still lives at home, but pays a small amount towards housekeeping and does other little tasks/things to help out as well.
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[rich p]

My two moved out for uni and apart from a few interim periods of the odd week haven't come back. One relocated back to Brighton 2 years ago and the other is doing so now - from London. They bought a house in London together with their respective partners 5 years ago. They have gained significant equity and are selling it as we speak. They also saved a lot in rent by 4 of them sharing the mortgage as opposed to separate rentals.

 

[asterix]

This will explain why my brother in the south has decided to convert his his garage.

 

[Cubist]

Take it from my own experience, it's best not to let them have a go

Since that delightful stage I have sworn I will get my own back. I will pick a moment when they are in bed on a Sunday morning sleeping off a hangover, and will stand in the doorway of their bedroom demanding that they wipe my @rse.

 

[biggs682]

we have 1 left but he is off backpacking in Feb for how long nobody knows ?

fwiw i didnt leave home till my 30's for simple reason i couldnt see the point

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

I'm the youngling still at home and I'm 34. I did move away then back in with my parents. I would have move out a second time if things hadn't gone thruppeny-up & landed me in part time employment. I'll soon be moving into my own gaff thanks to my parents; they're downsizing and also buying a place for me to live in. As soon as I'm back on a decent wage I plan to get a mortgage and buy the property off them.

I currently pay housekeeping; it's not a great deal but it's a contribution none the less.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Since that delightful stage I have sworn I will get my own back. I will pick a moment when they are in bed on a Sunday morning sleeping off a hangover, and will stand in the doorway of their bedroom demanding that they wipe my @rse.

If I wasn't a parent I'd be horrified by this, but as I am a parent I say YES!