<p>"...a whopping 85% of college seniors planned to move back home with their parents after graduation last May, according to a poll by Twentysomething Inc...That rate has steadily risen from 67% in 2006."</p>
<p>Boomerang</a> kids: 85% of college graduates must move back home - Oct. 14, 2010</p>
<p>Yep, we’ve got a Boomerang - although we prefer to think of it as “Revolving Doors.” But he does have a full-time job. We encouraged him to live at home to save money because we live in an expensive metro area.</p>
<p>Here too. Everyone was worrying about empty nesters. Not us. If it’s not my 93 year old mom living with us, it’s our college graduate. Really, it’s both! That’s okay. I’m happy we have the space and live in an area where there are jobs. It’s just too expensive to move out.</p>
<p>85% sounds high to me.</p>
<p>Yes. S#1 flew home with us after graduation–no job, no plan. Fortunately he was around for less than 3 months before he got a full-time job in a far away state, and flew off again.
We rented our basement to a local student–that will keep him from coming back!
Our kids are always welcome here if they have nowhere else to go. Just glad he found something. Niece and nephew, 09, 10 grads, one employed, one not, both live with their parents. Big enough house. Dad travels constantly, so mom is glad to have them around.</p>
<p>I bounce to Mom’s twice a day and stay the night there. I am 60yo.</p>
<p>I think 85% sounds right overall. D was on her own for 3 full years before she moved back.We were empty nesters for exactly one week with S leaving and D arriving :rolleyes:
A year later and now we are true empty nesters for the last month. Feels just fine. Of course there is the 1 month S will be here in Dec. and the 3.5 months in the summer…and then will he move home after he graduates? We might be in assisted living by then!</p>
<p>“85% sounds high to me.”</p>
<p>If they didn’t give you a number that sounded high no one would read the article.</p>
<p>How many of those kids are still living at home three months post-graduation? That seems a reasonable period of time to sift out who’s coming home for an extended period vs. a student who graduates, spends part of the summer traveling and then starts a job and moves out.</p>
<p>I was a boomerang kid some 20 years ago. I have every expectation of D moving back home after graduation.</p>
<p>I will be thrilled if D boomerangs. We get along famously, she 's a productive, interesting, and fun companion, and I’ll be delighted to have her in my house for as long as she chooses.</p>
<p>My oldest hasn’t lived here since she began senior year. She continued at her on campus position the summer after graduation, living in a house close to campus with other alums & a short time after that moved elsewhere in the same general neighborhood with friends.
She now considers that city her home as far as I can tell.</p>
<p>I dont think her sister will settle in that way, I expect she will jump aboard a tramp steamer after graduation and we will have to keep track of her by skype.</p>
<p>85% is a joke, I don’t believe it for an instant.</p>
<p>I plan on med school in New York city after college. My parents live half an hour from Manhattan. You can bet I’ll be back home before I pay for an apartment in Manhattan while paying for med school.</p>
<p>with the state of the economy, this is hardly surprising…people either can’t find jobs or are risk-averse at this stage</p>
<p>Lord have mercy! 85%! Only bound to go higher if the economy doesn’t turn around.</p>
<p>Well, break it down:
Out of 100% of kids who graduated from college
<p>The last category is (for me) the troubling one – the rest all seem pretty reasonable under the circumstances. But lumping them all together probably inflates the problem substantially beyond reality. </p>
<p>I have a friend whose two college graduate kids are both back living with them. One has just finished an MA and is getting ready to head out for a doctoral program, and the other has just finished a BA, and is applying to grad school. I don’t see either situation as being either remarkable or pernicious.</p>
<p>I had no idea it was that high. I never thought of my own kids being in the minority and thought they were the norm. My kids are 22 and 24 and neither has been at home for more than one week at a time since graduating high school. It is not as though they are not welcome but they would not want to, nor did it ever seem in the realm of expectations/assumptions. I think it would be hard to live at home after having been independent so long. I never did it and assume my kids won’t be either. They never even spent a summer or much of their breaks at home during the college years either. And no, we have never supported their summers away from home during college or support them at all once out of school. It is not like we ever said what they must do but more that this is what they would want.</p>
<p>How many of these kids have to live at home because there’s not enough money left for rent after making the student loan payments?</p>
<p>Soozie, I respect what you’re saying, but I remember boomeranging for a year at about the age of 26. It had nothing to do with what I “wanted,” and I, like your Ds had been independent for a number of years at that point. It wasn’t a lifestyle choice or preference, it was an unexpected necessity.</p>
<p>I am still grateful to my parents for the help they gave me and the way they embraced me back into their home with dignity without making me feel like a failure or somehow dependent.</p>
<p>I would guess for the huge majority of these kids, there is little or no choice involved. It is simply a necessity.</p>