Boomerang Babies: Record Numbers of Young Adults Live with Parents at Terrible Cost

[SheilaT]

55. What strikes me as one of the problems

of the kids living at home is that they never seem willing to move into a place with a roommate. Nope. Gotta live alone, all by myself.

When I was young it was unusual for a young person just away from home to live alone. We all had roommates. Four people sharing a two bedroom space was extremely common. Maybe if kids today would go back to those living arrangements they'd discover it really is possible to move out.

And having a job, even a crappy fast-food job, should be the bottom line always. If you graduated from college with a degree in art history, or anthropology, or 17th Century French poetry, somehow I'm not surprised you can't find a job in your field. Because there just aren't that many jobs in those fields. The community colleges have lots of certificate programs that lead directly to decent jobs. Look into it.