Im Jahr 2024 verließen junge Menschen in der EU das Haus ihrer Eltern im Durchschnittsalter von 26,2 Jahren. Höchste in Kroatien (31,3 Jahre), am niedrigsten in Finnland (21,4 Jahre)
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Von NanorH
Im Jahr 2024 verließen junge Menschen in der EU das Haus ihrer Eltern im Durchschnittsalter von 26,2 Jahren. Höchste in Kroatien (31,3 Jahre), am niedrigsten in Finnland (21,4 Jahre)
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Von NanorH
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Suddenly I don’t feel like a bum anymore
How many of them left to live on their own? (No partners no flatmate to share the burden)
Wild how big the gap is, over 10 years between Finland and Croatia. Culture and economy really shape independence
It makes me laugh when it’s becoming really rather normal to still live with your parents as a 30 year old, even in the countries with lower averages…
And yet… there’s still people that try to dismiss the cost of living and housing issues as the cause of people not having as many children.
When you can actually afford rent plus have social safety nets, people move out earlier. Shocking, I know.
financial issue
Seems pretty accurate to southern Europe. I would say around half of my friends who are around my age (~30 ish) live with their parents. The ones who moved out are either couples where both people have solid contracts and they earn above average, or people whose parents are helping them with rent (or social housing). The ones who live with their parents are either in difficult professional situations (hard to find a stable job) or have good jobs but they are single and prefer living with their parents rather than moving in with strangers.
Glad to see I wasn’t a statistically anomaly in Finland. Most I knew moved out when they were 17-18 or so. Only the ones whose families lived in the city where colleges were could live at home, except if the home-conditions were unbearable. They certainly were so for me. Now there is no home to move back to. It’s just me and my rental apartment.
Go pay half of your salary for rent and have fun
Leaving is easy, not returning is hard if you had it good and have the option to return when you get into trouble.
For the Balkans, there’s no info, because we never leave. 😭 😭 😭
Crap, I’m way past the average age to move out 😬
I’ve lived in Croatia and I’m living in Sweden now. It comes down to money.
In Croatia I’d spend around 80% of my paycheck on apartment, bills and food. In Sweden it’s around 30% for the same thing. The job I was doing in Croatia is the same job I’m doing now in Sweden.
Finn here. I left as soon as I turned 18 and got full student benefits. I was basically living at my girlfriends place from 16 anyway. I’ve come to appreaciate the little village of ~3500 people that we moved to when I was 13, but fuck how I hated the place as a teen.
Soon there will be no houses to live in
How do they define „leave“ in this context? When I was away studying I only stayed home during holidays, but I never changed my adress.
Geez, I thought I was late at 19.
Nothing helps the nation’s fertility crisis like living with your parents when you turn 30. /s
Edit: I was
I left at 25 moved back in at 29 and I know a lot of people that have done the same
A Finnish friend left home in her 20s and later moved overseas. Soon after, her parents decided to move to a one-bed apartment because it meant less cleaning. Now when my friend and her sister go to visit they have no space in the apartment, they need to pay for hotels.
I don’t know if that’s common or not in Finland, but it just strikes me as a particularly brutal approach to parenting.
it’s not a good thing to leave your parents at an early age, despite what the media says. Rent is fucking expensive.
Dang, we’re right on the average
I’ve lived in Sweden and the dream of leaving the family home at an early age is, more than a social-democratic achievement, the result of a profoundly broken social reality. Sponsored by the state since an early age, this rupture with the family is fostered and ultimately achieved when the children come of age, so as to make sure the only dependency of the individual is to the state. By that time, all emotional connections are broken and the individual will be FREE in exchange for a 60sqm IKEA built apartment, a fitness membership and a lifetime of happiness, courtesy of Systembolaget.
For me living with parents in my 30s is pure madness. I’ve been sharing a flat with a roomate or 2 since i was ~20. But, tbh, i can’t stand my parents anyway.
I (in Finland) left for own apartment just before turning 22 and I had many people asking why are you still living at your parents‘ place. Almost all of my frinds left younger than me.