Posted on 04/22/2021 10:58:59 AM PDT by george76
For millions of young Americans, the pandemic has been a time machine back to the early aughts.
By July 2020, 52% of 18 to 29 years olds, or 26.6 million adults, were now residing with a parent, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis — the highest number since the Great Depression..
In New York, some 300,000 left the city. Many of those people found themselves living in time capsules: lovingly preserved childhood bedrooms, plastered in posters and magazine cut-outs of boy bands and James Cameron blockbusters, and tricked out with décor from the Myspace era.
Many are still there.
Jess Cohen, 39, was one of them. She left her Manhattan apartment during the pandemic to move back in with her family in Fresh Meadows, Queens. Her modest bedroom hadn’t changed since high school, two decades ago.
A “Titanic” poster, a Barbie-sized Kate Winslet doll, the sign-in board from her Sweet Sixteen, stuffed animals and glass knickknacks from a school formal where just as she had left them.
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Maybe they should redecorate & paint their rooms
I guess the search for Mr. Goodbar did not go well.
Heck yeah. Happens out in the wild all the time. NOT!
She got no husband and no kids to look after. 39 and no career.
She was a nerd then and she still is a nerd.
I’ve got a spare bedroom but you have to be older than 18 and be of xx chromosome. Preferably xxx chromosome.
39 and living at home. Why does anyone take these people seriously?
Their smartphones cannot paint their rooms.
“Jess Cohen, 39...Her modest bedroom hadn’t changed since high school....just as she had left them.”
Once upon a time in America. We are so screwed.
39....and at that age, the bloom is off the rose. It now becomes a waiting game to get her claws on the inheritance.
For my eighteenth birthday I got three days to get out.
Inheritance tax will most likely go up too.
Because the extended family rather than the nuclear family is the stabilizing force in society. If plan A fails you save your money and make plan B.
“By July 2020, 52% of 18 to 29 years olds...”
There’s a big difference between someone crowding 30 and someone still in high school living with their parents. I’m not sure that’s a meaningful grouping.
Always found it a bit weird for parents to keep the room exactly the same for years and years. I understand if a child has passed away unexpectedly or something and it’s a way to cope, but adult children that have moved away? Have them take what they want, keep some mementos, and move on.
39 yo Millenial?
39, single, living with Mom and Dad, teaching the next generation how to grow up to be successful adults.
My parents used to say, “You’ll always have a place to live, no matter what.” As much as I love them, I’d rather die of exposure in the middle of winter living in a cardboard box under a bridge than to ever have to endure the shame and humiliation of moving back in with Mommy and Daddy. But then, again, I’ve never been allergic to going out and getting a job to support myself, either.
I see multi-generational living as a positive in most cases and think so many people would be better off in so many ways if families could see the benefits of collective wisdom, shared expenses - more savings, familial closeness, and built in support systems for everyone not to mention the good it would do for grandkids.
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