Wonder if they surveyed the parents, who I imagine are considerably less satisfied.
I can say one thing if it turned out my children had to move back home.
I rasied and trained them well they are both living away from with good jobs
I would never have to cut the grass, weed the garden, cut and split fire wood and any other chores I could think of.
May be there is a reason they are not living at home.
Ya, how happy are parents about their adult children still living with them?
I think a big issue would be, are these young people being responsible in their lives? Are they working? Are they paying rent? Are they doing household chores?
I had a bad personal experience in this area. My son was unemployed, and didn’t seem to be working too hard in seeking work, from what I could tell. We had some discussions about that.
But the last straw from me was one morning, I heard strange noises from his room. I couldn’t imagine what was going on in there. It turns out he had brought a girl into his room!!
He and I had some sharp discussions, in which I told him, I was not going to subsidize his engaging in immoral behavior with girls under my roof.
In the end, he moved out, got a job, and has had that job for a few years now. And, he ended up marrying that girl. In his case, moving out and being compelled to work, and being compelled to pay rent so he could entertain whoever he wanted where he lived, pushed him to make positive effort to being a responsible young adult.
Thats probably a safe bet. I have an aunt and uncle who had just retired very comfortably with two good pensions, when their oldest daughter got divorced and moved back in with her two kids (and remains unemployed after two years). Then their middle daughter lost her $60,000 a year job and is currently living on unemployment, with mom and dad making the better part of her mortgage payment for her so she doesn't lose her house. Now the youngest daughter and her husband couldn't find any work after college and have moved back in as well. So my aunt and uncle who had saved up and planned to spend their golden years traveling are now barely scrapping by with two kids (and two grandkids) under their roof and paying the mortgage of the third. They have even started thinking about going back to work part time to supplement their pensions.
it used to be that adults stayed longer with the parents and its very common in other countries in Asia for example...
everybody thinks we're supposed to be like "Friends" with pretty girls and handsome boys living the high life in an apartment....that is NOT reality....
If the SHTF I've already told the adult kids that they could live here with their spouses and children....they won't like it, maybe we won't either, but families do what they have to do...
I had four brothers and one sister in a smallish home but we still took my grandmother in, with her own room....it meant tripling up in some rooms but families do what they must do...