Young adult who moved back home: The government's 'how to cope' video shows they don't understand us |
OVER TWO YEARS ago, I decided to move home to live with my parents in Waterford after spending most of my previous 10 years of adulthood living independently – studying, and then working abroad in Scotland and in Spain.
My reasons for moving back into my childhood bedroom were quite specific: using what little money I had saved up to run for local and general elections in order to try to change things for the better and to help hold those in power to account. But the general story of moving back to live with parents in your late twenties is one told increasingly throughout our country.
Alongside the skyrocketing levels of homelessness and worsening quality of life for tenants, the large numbers of young adults forced or pressured to move back to their childhood bedroom is one of the clearest and most tangible effects of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’s catastrophic failure to uphold their end of the social contract.
It’s no wonder, then, that this government’s recent ‘dystopian’ video has caused such outrage.
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In the video, two young adults provide suggestions on how to live more comfortably with your parents when moving home as an adult. While the tips themselves are good ones (I definitely didn’t find it easy moving home as an adult and losing my independence after a decade living independently in other countries), the context of........