How many of you still live with your parents 30+?

tom_e said:
Step up and make the effort then, sometimes the only way is to swallow your pride.
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Yea. Parents don't always make the best decisions or make what they think is best at the time.

I would be quite upset if my parents kicked me out at any age but there again they might have thought it would have done you some good.

Having had some of my relatives get major and unexpected health issues recently all I can say is try and build bridges with them, nobody knows how long we have.
 
I coudn't do it I had to move out as soon as I could I needed my own space having my mother tell me to do this that and the other and can't watch this or that is not something that grown ups are programmed to deal with I feel.

Having said that I almost wish I was because the amount of money I'd save on mortgage, services, food I'd be absolutely rolling in dosh.
 
Diagro said:
It needs to crash, but mainly in areas such as London.... Area's such as mine has been the same for the past 8 years, possibly a 10% rise at best which is what it should be like...

EDIT: checked and its more like 35%
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It's not just London. Here in Cornwall prices are rising 5% every year. Although London is higher still than that (10% or something? Or 8%. I forget :p)
 
Race comes into play too, different cultures seem to follow trends.

Almost every Serbian guy I know over here seem to happily live with their parents until they marry and back in UK I feel like Sikh lads do the same. Their parents welcome it too.
 
MatteH Oxford said:
A few people in the thread regarding how old people were when they bought their first house has a few confessions regarding dodgy financial practices by some a few years back in order for them to be able to buy. They have been extremely lucky so far by the looks of it, but look at the huge amount of financial shenanigans by the Government that have supported the housing market, directly, indirectly or coincidently so far:

Help to buy
Funding for lending
Bank bailouts
Special liquidity scheme
Quantitative easing
Rate cut from 5.75% to 0.5%, nearly 1/12th of what they were - a huge drop
Probably a lot more than I've put here


A lot of areas have only just about recovered in price from the 2008-9 crash, save a few places like London and the S.E. What can be realistically done from here on by the Government, without it having even more dire consequences for the "real" economy outside of buying and selling houses to one another?

I'm rather scared to be honest, I read the other day that 80% of net mortgage lending was Buy to let borrowing. Given the massive tax changes coming over the next few years, this sector looks like it will pretty much collapse.

Maybe finally the UK will have its real property crash?
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My little brother is just about to buy his first house and I've tried to explain this to him but he's adamant it's not an issue. Granted, I hadn't listed it quite as clearly as you did. I feel like our previous generation have constantly chirped in his ear about investing in property because in their day it was great but now it's way too volatile.

A friend of mine bought his house in 2007 but only with his name on it, he thought he met the girl of his dreams and that they would both pay towards the house but then they split, then the property market crashed. Poor lad had to work three jobs to stay afloat and he's a coder thankfully but I'd hate for my brother to go through that.
 
to be honest, I want my mum to move in with me, I want to look after her and many people have that in their plan the whole time... so I used to think it wrong, but ownership of a house shouldn't mean anything.

If you earn enough to own / rent, anything else is just part of the plan.
 
FoxEye said:
It's not just London. Here in Cornwall prices are rising 5% every year. Although London is higher still than that (10% or something? Or 8%. I forget :p)
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Feels impossible to buy when the pay is poor, rent it high and the property prices are extortionate with second homes...
 
I think it totally depends on the circumstances. Big house with parents you get along with and who want you there — no problem until you yourself get married.
 
I've not 'lived' with my parents since I was 18, and I'm nearly 27 now. However, I went to uni for 3 years, then moved miles away to live with the then-girlfriend, then went back to uni for a year, and now live in a house share, again miles from my parents. There has been the odd month here and there between uni, leaving the ex, starting uni again where I've had to move back in with them, but nothing more than that.

To be honest; I'm hugely lucky really. I know that if I ever needed to move back in, there would be no issues at all - the house is plenty large enough, and they live abroad most of the time so it would just be me there. They do help out financially here and there though, especially when I was at uni. I own them a huge amount for all they've done for me really.
 
I spent a year and a half at my mothers house from uhh 22-23 and was working, living essentially bill free as i ate at work (a hotel) but despite getting along amazing with my mother i hated it. It was more of a self image thing. Nobody is impressed that you live with your mum.

Ive not got my little brother (19) living with me rent free and i pay for a good chunk of his food too. Little git! But its done him the world of good so I guess its alright. Ill start charging him rent once I can get him a job.
 
I'm 24, still live with my parents.
I pay alittle towards food/internet but lot allot and I basically live in my room 24/7 apart from when I go to get food, I take it up stairs though.
I'm most likely going to be here for quite abit longer, its quite hard getting a job when you find it physically/mentally sickening and exhausting to talk to people. Was working at a call centre for awhile (first job) I had to leave before I started shouting at people to just go away/shut up.
Not many jobs I can get that have limited human contact.
 
Have you not tried getting help with the problem MatsyLR, don't want to jump to conclusions but that sounds like severe social anxiety.
 
Sod that for a game of soldiers! I left home at the age of 17 but then I like the Ladies. I would be all right going at it hammer and tongs in my bedroom while my Mum is banging the living room ceiling with a broom. Just wouldn't do!
 
Moved out to Uni/Manchester around 19/20, from university I got full time job and moved up the housing ladder (in so much as went from University halls of residence > 5 person house share > 3 person house share > flat share in city centre with friend > flat renting alone)

At this point I had been renting for nearly 10 years and had managed to save around £20K. Now in my 30's I no longer needed proximity to a city lifestyle, I commute to work as I can afford to run a car and the fact I wanted to spend time with my parents meant I moved back home with my Dad.

Renting was a great way for me to learn life skills, I was able to learn to budget, cook and look after myself. But moving back home means everyone in the family is better off financially. I can afford to go on holidays with my dad, I do more on my days off as I have access to the countryside from my doorstep, and I can save even more money. Love living back home!
 
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Blackjack Davy said:
I coudn't do it I had to move out as soon as I could I needed my own space having my mother tell me to do this that and the other and can't watch this or that is not something that grown ups are programmed to deal with I feel.

Having said that I almost wish I was because the amount of money I'd save on mortgage, services, food I'd be absolutely rolling in dosh.
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You've been in the army then?
 
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