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Picture this:
You’re getting a bit frisky with someone at a bar, and talk of going back to your place arises. You imagine yourself opening the door, and sneaking in ever…so…..quietly… so as not to wake your mum, who has probably been up all night worrying about you and will no doubt have a barrage of questions you have no decent answers for.
“No we’re not serious, mum.”
“Yes I know I have to get up early tomorrow.”
“Yessss, I’ll take the garbage out.”

Oh the glamourous life of moving back home.

Living with less freedom and privacy (and less chance to get laid) in the parental home is one sacrifice many young people are making in order to have a roof over their heads and according to a Galaxy Research survey that was commissioned by ING Direct, one in 10 young adults plan to make that sacrifice and move back into the parental abode within the next year in order to save money for a mortgage deposit or to simply escape the rising rent prices.

Generation Y is also facing a tougher balancing act than previous generations, some facing the choice of food or rent?. A Monash Student Association survey claims that of 450 respondents, 52.9 per cent said they lived at home with their parents because of financial difficulty and 38 per cent claimed they were struggling to pay for accommodation.

With so many young people opting to move back home rather than pay high rents in the hyped rental market, you gotta wonder what it’s doing to the social structures of our generation.

Will we be a generation of 40 year old virgins?!?!

Check this blog post re similar pressures leading youngsters to Japan’s Love Hotels.