The survey, from financial comparison site Finder, asked 1,010 Australians to weigh in on how old was “too old” to be still living in the family home, with the average Australian saying 31-years-old was the cut-off date.

  • joelle_ether@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    18 days ago

    Yeah I think it’s just this big independence push but now I’m trying to figure out if that was some organic thing, or if it was all just set up that way so they could sell more homes and furniture and dishes and appliances and carpet and repairs etc etc. Did young adults always move out as fast as they could or is that a pretty recent thing? I’m guessing it’s pretty recent

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      18 days ago

      @joeljoelle @Ilandar I would say something that is maximum 4 generations old. Starting in the 50s… As the baby boomers found independence quickly in the west bounding off the wealth explosion and equality following ww2, then the uber rich didn’t like it, so swung the pendulum hard the other way, so wealth would pile up under them again like pre ww1.