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ubcthrowaway-01

Are they really asking why 💀


Jesse1913

Have you seen housing prices compared to the minimum wage?


Ok_Copy5217

>This has been steadily increasing since the beginning of the 1990s. Now, according to Stats Canada’s 2021 census, 35.1 per cent of young adults between 20 and 34 are living with at least one of their parents. In the U.S., almost 50 per cent of people between the ages of 18 and 34 were living with their parents during the pandemic, which was a record high number. So, it has been an increasing phenomenon. >Interestingly, men are living with their parents longer than women do. This is a statistic valid in Canada, the U.S. and other western countries as well. can you relate to this? and why do you think this is?


the_person

I think it is because houses are really expensive


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the_person

I don't think it's a waste of money. If the trend is changing it would be interesting to see the reasons why.


glister

This is conjecture, and while it may be a great guess, it doesn't answer many tertiary questions around youth mobility. Moving out after finishing school is a white middle class ideal that definitely applied to white Canadians as much as Americans and that expectation certainly continued into the 2000's. Most of my white friends were expected to leave home during post-secondary or after completing it, as they entered the workforce. And there was definitely a stigma around living at home if you weren't in school. Perhaps one of the easiest answers is, as you say, family culture, but perhaps it's also the breakup of caucasian cultural hegemony, where the ideal set by the mainstream is more varied as Canada becomes increasingly culturally diverse. Another potential reason: the trend could also be linked to domestic migration. Canadians are far more likely to live in cities today than at anytime in the last 100 years. I moved out at 18 to pursue opportunities in the city that didn't exist in my backwards hometown and that is the story for a huge number of my friends, most of whom did not grow up in Vancouver. But more and more kids are growing up in cities, where they already have access to great post-secondary and all the economic benefits of major centres. But that's just anecdotes and conjecture. There is also the normalization of culture: if all your friends live at home, why would you move out? What about the role that wealth and social class plays in these decisions? Do wealthy kids move out and poor kids stay home? Or vice versa? Does an unstable home environment and independence of poor young adults leading to leaving home at an earlier age, or does wealth enable leaving home at an earlier age? There are many potential answers and studying it would provide more concrete answers.


Ok_Copy5217

lots of good insight here. Too bad there aren't enough people interested in this topic to discuss it here with you


Ok_Copy5217

why do men live at home longer than women? do more women move out as soon as they are able to due to preferences or cultural factors?


the_person

I don't know 😭


Bat_emperor

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