Leaving home and setting off to build one’s own life is considered a key pillar of adulthood in many countries. It’s the proverbial mark at which societies deem a person fit and able to architect and maintain the trajectory of their own life.However, not all cultures and family structures are the same. And sometimes economies can influence the ability to move out.We rank the European countries by the average age at which people leave their parental homes, as sourced from Eurostat data, current up to 2023.
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45 sats \ 2 replies \ @fm 15 Jul
29-30-- Damn, i should have read this before having a couple kids
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34 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner OP 15 Jul
Ahahah! You'll have to get a three-bedroom house.
I think that economic reasons are a relevant factor in this, but cultural reasons also play a big part. People like the comfort of living with their parents, with clean clothes and food on the table.
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 15 Jul
And thinking i was out at 20..
I think the major problem is lacking of decent wages.
Where i live its impossible even to rent alone.. Even if you have a decent wage for a 20 year old, you cant pay rent alone.. Well, maybe rent, but you cant eat then..
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29 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s33 15 Jul
The truth is that it is not only a phenomenon that occurs at the European level... I have been a migrant for 7 years established here in Lima Peru... and adults or people are also very, very close to their parents... especially women. .. and this phenomenon occurs not so much in the capital but much more in the provinces... Entire families living in a single house... With in-laws, cousins, uncles... And so... I come from Venezuela and there it is totally Differently, young people barely manage to balance their economic stability with work and study... And they move alone, just like that...
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24 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 15 Jul
It's common knowledge that Italian men find it hard to leave the comfortable home and good food of their "Mama" 😅
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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xIlmari 15 Jul
Need to put that on a 2D chart against a ratio of mean house price to average wage.
Then you'd know how much of it is cultural vs financial.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 15 Jul
Good idea! That would make a good post. It would take time to find the data and make the graphs.
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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 15 Jul
Is finland just handing out free homes, what gives?
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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 15 Jul
This reminded me about the Housing First program in Finland.
They considerably reduced their homelessness problem by simply giving homes to people that needed them:
https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/eradicating-homelessness-finland-housing-first-programme
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 15 Jul
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