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    1. Many-Gas-9376 on

      I believe this illustrates the same phenomenon as you see in those constantly-reposted maps showing “% of young adults (25-34) living with parents”. If young adults leave home early, they are more likely to live alone compared to other age groups, so % of people living alone goes up.

      So just like those maps, I believe it’s mainly about economic conditions:

      * salaries of new workers vs. housing costs (e.g., can a starting school teacher afford a home, if they live alone)
      * subsidized housing or economic support for students, allowing them to live alone

      So overall, I guess it’s a good thing to have this number high.

    2. Midnight_Pornstar on

      I’ve heard Italian men live with their mothers like forever.
      They’re not on the chart at all, so it must be true

    3. Old_Lynx4796 on

      I don’t think there is any positive side to it lol I mean you can try to spin it, hell yeah we are more independent but the reality is that a lot of people are just alone and lonely :/

    5. kolykom on

      Divorce rates are also pretty high in the +35 age groups, this means children tend to have two homes, but on paper it may look like the other parent lives alone.

    8. vaultdwellernr1 on

      I don’t know what’s the ratio of ages who live alone, but I’m pretty sure there’s high numbers with the elderly who are widowed. And I’ve read numerous articles about how lonely many elderly people are. So at least in this regard it’s a negative phenomenon. And probably not by choice in many cases.

    9. 5tap1er on

      I imagine if you overlay housing cost data, the rankings would be similar. (Low to high)

    10. MortalTomkat on

      Fuck whoever made that chart.

      * 16.1 / 25.8 = 62.4%, yet the bar is like 40% width.
      * The two 18.7 bars are of different width.
      * Just eyeballing it, the other proportions are off too.

    11. KofFinland on

      I thought it would be higher percentage.

      [https://stat.fi/julkaisu/cl8a30d0ruzs50cvv45kpapqg](https://stat.fi/julkaisu/cl8a30d0ruzs50cvv45kpapqg)

      In 2022 there was 1.3 million people living alone. There are 2.8 million households (asuntokunta) in Finland. So nowadays nearly half of households are single people.

      How do they calculate people living in institutions and supported living (like old people, seriously handicapped people etc.)?

    12. Alert-Bowler8606 on

      I only lived alone for about a year as a student and I loved it. At that time all student housing was with room mates, and I hated sharing a flat with random people who didn’t clean up after themselves and used up all the toilet paper. Living alone was wonderful, I could do what I wanted, when I wanted.

      Then of course I met my current husband and we practically moved in together after the 3rd date… which was nice, too. But I really enjoyed living alone.

    13. wertyce on

      At least previously it was very hard for students to live together. It would have destroyed their Kela-benefits. It was financially better to live separately. That was large enough phenomenon, that it can affect % slightly.

    14. Mild-Panic on

      I would have killed myself if I had to live in my mom’s and her husband’s place any more than I did (hyperbole but vibe is accurate). My mentalh ealth got SO much better after I moved to my own place at the age of 19 or 20.

      I cannot fathom how Mediterranean young adults can live with their parents. The loudness of it all, the lack of privacy, the lack of control of my own place of living or life for that matter.

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