This would have been much better if also compared with cultural background. I'm from Spain and it's common here to live with the family after graduating. It's not even a bad thing and many times it's not even due to economic reasons; we just love our families and spending time with them. I'm sure that family ties (culturally dependent) also make an influence on who lives with their family, so I'd love to see this in the report.
> we just love our families and spending time with them.
I doubt love is a large factor here, it is definitely a cultural thing.
Many of my friends still live near their families and love spending time with them, but you are viewed as a failure in society if you cannot survive on your own. If living at home with your parents wasnt such a bad stigma in cultures I'm sure more people would do it as they also love their families and it makes economic sense.
Also most people leave their families when they go to college, often not in the same town the grew up in, then take a job likely not in either town they grew up or studied in making it very difficult to live with your parents even if you wanted to ignore the stigma of it
When I was a kid, we lived in SE Asia, and multi-generational homes were the norm. Usually more of a shared farm/compound with a bunch of satellite homes clustered next to each other.
Honestly, even as an introverted kid, I liked visiting my friends in their stilt homes and hanging out with the various families. Having everyone together and able to support each other was nice.
Religious background, martial status and future housing aspirations might have also been useful. I live at home. The main reasons in my case are that I am not married and while apartments are affordable, saving money for a really nice house is harder to do if I have one.
Agreed. Even in Switzerland it is not to unusual to stay _at home_ for a while. More because economic reasons, but its reasonable. Many will, when they move out, look for something nice and not start with shitty small apartments or crowded WGs just to get away from their parents.
The 'report' is drawn from Earnests clients. Earnest bills itself as the bank of tomorrow, but seems to profit mainly by student and personal loans. As such, one of the requirements to get a loan/be used in this totally scientific advertisement is to be in the US...although they appear to only operate in 41 states, so perhaps there's a statistically significant exception.
