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Originally Posted by Thunderball
The mentality is, if one has a good relationship with their parent/parents, contributes to the whole and respects their parents requirements, why bother wasting thousands of dollars a year to rent? Why not go to school, make some money on the side, and when they have graduated with a good job and a solid revenue stream, purchase a condo/townhome/house and go from there. The stigma of being in one's twenties and living with their parents doesn't really exist anymore.
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Exactly. This is the way I did it, where I went to university full-time, worked part time outside of school, and contributed financially and physically around the house on a regular basis. I couldn't fathom doing it any other way, especially with university workloads these days.
I finished uni in 2006 and now live in my own condo, but I'm thinking of selling it so that I can go live back home and save money for a trip. traveling is more important to me than having a condo is, and I'm lucky I could possibly go home and make that happen. My father HATES it, but I'm pretty sure my mother would like it... she gets rent money and free help around the house, haha.
And that whole stigma of 20-somethings living with their parents is so old school its ridiculous. I couldn't give two craps what people think if I lived at home in my 20's, as long as there was a purpose in living at home. Times have changed, and living at home until a later age is quickly becoming a more enticing option for a lot of young people these days.