By Jill McIntire
Vanessa Barros, a 2015 graduate from Saint Anselm's College landed a job teaching history at Pinkerton Academy before graduation and Barros decided to move home after graduation for a year to save money.
“I think it’s best to move home for a little while to save up money. Living on your own is extremely expensive and I think people tend to forget to add in the costs of food, heat, and electricity” Barros said.
After living with her mother for a year, Barros moved into a town house with her college roommate. “It was definitely worth it spending a year at home,” said Barros.
A growing number of college graduates around the country, such as Barros are moving back home with their parents after four years of being independent. It can be a difficult thing for not only the graduate, but their parents as well. According to a recent study done by PEW Research Center, living with a parent is the most common young adult living arrangement for the first time on record people adults between the ages of 18 and 34 years old.
According to the PEW Social Trends, fewer men are living with a significant other right out of college than men living at home with their parents. According to PEW, “In 2014, 28 percent of young men were living with a spouse or partner in their own home, while 35 percent were living in the home of their parents”.
PEW statistics say note that The Great Recession has been part of the reason of the increase in number of young adults living at home.
Erica Leblanc graduated a semester early from Suffolk University in 2014. After she finished school, Leblanc continued to live in Boston, working two jobs as a Social Media Manager and also as an usher at an Improv Studio. She worked her way up at both jobs to higher and more paying positions at both companies.
Leblanc said she was working two jobs to help make sure she could afford her North End apartment.
Justine Turner, who graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2009 with a Bachelors Degree in English and Journalism, lived at home with her parents while interning at NESN.
“I lived at home because that is all I was financially capable of at the time,” Turner said.
After volunteering and working different jobs, Turner moved to her own apartment in Cambridge.
Erika Isner, a senior at Stonehill College expects to graduate in May. Isner said she does not have any jobs lined up but is hoping to work in the Public Relations field, hopefully in Boston. Her future plans include most likely living at home for a short amount of time in order to save money before moving out on her own.
“I’d love to be in the city with my friends, but if I don’t have a job it won’t be realistic for me right out of school”, Isner said.
According to Sociology professor at Stonehill College, Corey Dolgon, there is more pressure today than ever before to become independent earlier. Before the 1960’s people would live with their entire family and would inherit land and homes from their family.
“People need to do what they have to and what they can do”, said Dolgon when asked his opinion on whether people should move home after college or not.
Works Cited
Fry, Richard. For First Time in Modern Era, Living With Parents Edges Out Other Living Arrangements for 18- to 34-Year-Olds. Pew Research Center, Washington DC.
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