Home Sweet Home
I live at home. So do a few of my friends but we are definitely in the minority, or so it seems. Why is it that when you tell someone you moved back in with your parents, they suddenly look at you differently? Society tells us that if you move back home, for any reason, then you must be doing something wrong.
Tired of the stigma, I decided to do a google search and found an article on Monster. The funny thing about it is that a friend of mine is quoted in the story. Bryan moved back after school too but his fiancee is still at Wartburg, his parents live close to campus and it makes sense. By the way, I will get in to this marrying/enagement very young thing very soon!
Here are some stats for those of you living it up... at home:
48 percent of 2007 grads live at home (monstertrax survey)
42 percent of 2006 grads live/lived at home (monstertrax survey)
One in five twenty-somethings move back home at some point (ABC News)
No one wants to live with their parents, especially if they've left the house for a period of time. We're not social lepers, financial failures or lazy. Unless you're George Costanza moving home in your thirties ... "not that there's anything wrong with that."
My point, it's not the end of the world to go back home. You know it's temporary, your parents know it's temporary and your debt will be better for it.
Now, where did mom leave my laundry...
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