Millennials are moving back into awkward teen rooms in record numbers

[mystery-ak]

Millennials are moving back into awkward teen rooms in record numbers

By Allison Hope

April 22, 2021 | 11:38am | Updated


For millions of young Americans, the pandemic has been a time machine back to the early aughts.

By July 2020, 52 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds, or 26.6 million adults, were residing with a parent, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis — the highest number since the Great Depression.

In New York, some 300,000 left the city. Many of those people found themselves living in time capsules: lovingly preserved childhood bedrooms, plastered in posters and magazine cut-outs of boy bands and James Cameron blockbusters, and tricked out with décor from the Myspace era.

Many are still there.

Jess Cohen, 39, was one of them. She left her Manhattan apartment during the pandemic to move back in with her family in Fresh Meadows, Queens. Her modest bedroom hadn’t changed since high school, two decades ago.

A “Titanic” poster, a Barbie-size Kate Winslet doll, the sign-in board from her Sweet Sixteen, stuffed animals and glass knickknacks from a school formal were just as she had left them.

The girlish pink walls were the cherry on top of what feels like a “Blossom”-meets-“Clarissa Explains It All” retrospective.

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[DB]

Government did that.

And these idiots are voting for more of the same.

[mountaineer]

I don't think those are millennials. Aren't they Gen Z (and possibly X)?

[mystery-ak]

Both my boys are self supporting and have families...the moment they moved out I turned the small bedroom into a closet and the other into my office/guest bedroom....and moved all their crap to a storage locker which I should charge them for...

[Cyber Liberty]

I don't think those are millennials. Aren't they Gen Z (and possibly X)?

I think age 39 is "Gen X."  How should I know, I'm a boomer going on geezer.  "Get off my lawn!"

[Cyber Liberty]

Both my boys are self supporting and have families...the moment they moved out I turned the small bedroom into a closet and the other into my office/guest bedroom....and moved all their crap to a storage locker which I should charge them for...

I knew a fellow who had a lakeside home that was architecturally "causal," and he knocked out a wall every time a kid moved out.

[libertybele]

Well, my son moved back home after only 2 years of college with his dog and girlfriend (now wife)...so we mandated that they get jobs and they had to turn over a portion of their paychecks every week.  Once that money accumulated and they had enough $$ for to rent an apartment, they were out. The dog stayed with us. My daughter completed college and has dual degrees, none of which applies to her current job, she got married right away (huge mistake) but has never moved back home. We have in the past helped out with some of their bills in the beginning, but so far so good.  My daughter's company is hanging in there right now ; the GM has COVID, 2 employees are still out with COVID and 2 have put in their resignation.  So ... at this point who knows.  She made it through the initial layoff and has been fully employed again and hopefully the company will survive.

[libertybele]

Both my boys are self supporting and have families...the moment they moved out I turned the small bedroom into a closet and the other into my office/guest bedroom....and moved all their crap to a storage locker which I should charge them for...

I went through the storage locker scene too, and after awhile, I finally said, either you take over the payments or you lose your stuff.  Storage is not cheap!   

It's hard to make things more difficult for your kids, but in my case, 2 years of payments was long enough!

[mystery-ak]

I went through the storage locker scene too, and after awhile, I finally said, either you take over the payments or you lose your stuff.  Storage is not cheap!   

It's hard to make things more difficult for your kids, but in my case, 2 years of payments was long enough!

I have threatened them...the storage facility moved their huge garbage container and you can no longer throw stuff away....if I bring it to my house I have to pay the garbage company extra to haul it away...if it's not in their containers they won't take it...

[libertybele]

I have threatened them...the storage facility moved their huge garbage container and you can no longer throw stuff away....if I bring it to my house I have to pay the garbage company extra to haul it away...if it's not in their containers they won't take it...

Just recently the city decided that we could put items (even furniture and appliances) at the curb and our garbage collectors would take it away. It's been really a good thing. Only thing we can't leave out is oil, paint, gasoline cans and things like that, those have to be discarded at a special facility.

[libertybele]

I have threatened them...the storage facility moved their huge garbage container and you can no longer throw stuff away....if I bring it to my house I have to pay the garbage company extra to haul it away...if it's not in their containers they won't take it...

We had to rent a dumpster a couple of years ago when we downsized and the fees weren't too bad. I think it was around $300.  In the long run, which is cheaper, to continue to pay storage or to get rid of the stuff and be done with it?

[mountaineer]

I think age 39 is "Gen X."  How should I know, I'm a boomer going on geezer.  "Get off my lawn!"

I thought Gen Z encompassed those born since 1995, which would be most of the age group described in the story. I'm just wondering what comes after Gen Z, as they've kind of out of letters.

[libertybele]

I thought Gen Z encompassed those born since 1995, which would be most of the age group described in the story. I'm just wondering what comes after Gen Z, as they've kind of out of letters.

Whatever they identify as. 

[mountaineer]

Whatever they identify as. 

Isn't that the truth.

[Wingnut]

I knew a fellow who had a lakeside home that was architecturally "causal," and he knocked out a wall every time a kid moved out.

With a Sawsall and a sledge hammer I hope.

[The_Reader_David]

Never had that problem.  Even my ne'er do well musician son, who finally finished his BA at the age of 30, never tried to move back into our basement.  He turned dropping out of college and falling into poverty into a winning proposition when he went back to school -- with me and his mom off his FAFSA he qualified for Pell Grants and subsidized student loans -- but even in his years as college drop-out supported himself.

[berdie]

This tells me that having a mom scraping by and a dad that was pretty non-existant was a positive in the long run.

If there is no where to go...ya do it yourself.

[libertybele]

This tells me that having a mom scraping by and a dad that was pretty non-existant was a positive in the long run.

If there is no where to go...ya do it yourself.

Same situation I had. My parents divorced and my Dad was in the picture (when my mother would allow him to be -- she lied to me, but that's another story), he financially sent support and my mother worked full time.  However, if I wanted to go to the doctors, I paid the doctor bill, I bought clothes, shoes, etc., from babysitting money that I earned -- that started when I was 13. Yep, I did a lot myself plus, I helped to take care of my brothers a lot as well.

My Dad came to stay with us when he was dying of cancer and he asked me why I never came to him for help as he could see that after I married we were struggling.  My answer to him was very simple; I never even considered that we were struggling.  We made do with what we had and that those were some of the happiest times in my life.       

[jafo2010]

Generation X, Y, or Z, they are ALL GENERATION I.  That's right, GENERATION I for IDIOT.

90% of those under age 45 are utter idiots.  They know nothing is my experience.  NOTHING!!!

 

[Cyber Liberty]

With a Sawsall and a sledge hammer I hope.

Naaw.  They were built to be removed when the time comes.