Nel 2024, i giovani nell’UE hanno lasciato la casa dei loro genitori ad un’età media di 26,2 anni; Più alto in Croazia (31,3 anni), più basso in Finlandia (21,4 anni)
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di NanorH
Nel 2024, i giovani nell’UE hanno lasciato la casa dei loro genitori ad un’età media di 26,2 anni; Più alto in Croazia (31,3 anni), più basso in Finlandia (21,4 anni)
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di NanorH
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https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250923-1
Suddenly I don’t feel like a bum anymore
How many of them left to live on their own? (No partners no flatmate to share the burden)
Wild how big the gap is, over 10 years between Finland and Croatia. Culture and economy really shape independence
bullshit
It makes me laugh when it’s becoming really rather normal to still live with your parents as a 30 year old, even in the countries with lower averages…
And yet… there’s still people that try to dismiss the cost of living and housing issues as the cause of people not having as many children.
When you can actually afford rent plus have social safety nets, people move out earlier. Shocking, I know.
financial issue
Seems pretty accurate to southern Europe. I would say around half of my friends who are around my age (~30 ish) live with their parents. The ones who moved out are either couples where both people have solid contracts and they earn above average, or people whose parents are helping them with rent (or social housing). The ones who live with their parents are either in difficult professional situations (hard to find a stable job) or have good jobs but they are single and prefer living with their parents rather than moving in with strangers.
Glad to see I wasn’t a statistically anomaly in Finland. Most I knew moved out when they were 17-18 or so. Only the ones whose families lived in the city where colleges were could live at home, except if the home-conditions were unbearable. They certainly were so for me. Now there is no home to move back to. It’s just me and my rental apartment.
Go pay half of your salary for rent and have fun
Leaving is easy, not returning is hard if you had it good and have the option to return when you get into trouble.
For the Balkans, there’s no info, because we never leave. 😭 😭 😭
Crap, I’m way past the average age to move out 😬
I’ve lived in Croatia and I’m living in Sweden now. It comes down to money.
In Croatia I’d spend around 80% of my paycheck on apartment, bills and food. In Sweden it’s around 30% for the same thing. The job I was doing in Croatian is the same job I’m doing now in Sweden.
Finn here. I left as soon as I turned 18 and got full student benefits. I was basically living at my girlfriends place from 16 anyway. I’ve come to appreaciate the little village of ~3500 people that we moved to when I was 13, but fuck how I hated the place as a teen.
Soon there will be no houses to live in
How do they define “leave” in this context? When I was away studying I only stayed home during holidays, but I never changed my adress.
Apart from obvious economic differences: Multigenerational living has never been very big in the Nordics. It’s never been SUPER WEIRD or something, it just hasn’t been the “standard” or “expected” way of doing things for a very, *very* long time. Longer than most people think.
Back in the day when most people were sustenance farmers in the Nordic, it was very common to build a smaller separate house for your aging parents next to the main house of the farm after you took it over from them.
Not even back before elderly care and when your parents were old and frail was it by any means “standard” up here to have them live under the same roof as you.
These smaller houses were called “undantag” (*exceptions*) in Sweden, since — after having passed ownership of the land to your heir (usually the oldest son who had to buy out his siblings’ shares) — you were no longer legally entitled to live on that land anymore. You therefore had to get an *exception* from the new land owner — your son — to build a dwelling on the land.
I’m not saying multigenerational living NEVER happened in the Nordics, but it has definitely not been the standard way of doing things for an extremely long time.
Add to this the fact that back in those days you were expected to take employment in another household as a maid or a farmhand from around 15 years old you start to see a very clear historical pattern of children leaving their parents’ home very young and never living together again as different generations in the same household.
Geez, I thought I was late at 19.
Nothing helps the nation’s fertility crisis like living with your parents when you turn 30. /s
Edit: I was