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Are Young Europeans Really Living With Their Parents?

These two charts tell you the whole story about European Gen Z and Millennials still living with their parents…

Written and Edited by the YPulse Editorial Team
KEY TAKEAWAYS
  • The most common living situation among young Europeans is to live with friends or their significant others—not with their parents
  • The vast majority of European Gen Z and Millennials who live with their parents do so because they’re in middle school or at university
  • Only one in 20 young Europeans live with their parents and are unemployed
“Youth head home” has been the headline of many news outlets in the past two years in Western Europe, with one newspaper even giving tips to alarmed Boomers on “How to Survive Grown-Up Kids moving back home.” While it’s true that the cost of living crisis and inflation has squeezed the budget of many European youngsters in the region, it doesn’t mean all of them suddenly became “Boomerang kids,” and ran back home to the family nest to live with mom and dad. So what do Gen Z and Millennials themselves have to say about it—is it true that they’re living at...

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