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 “Blossomâ€-meets-“Clarissa Explains It All†retrospective.
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