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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents helped with rent while we took our first few jobs after college that were entry level and didn’t pay particularly well. None of us ever moved home and after a few years we didn’t need help with rent anymore. [/quote]

I had a coworker in my 20s with this arrangement. I'd wondered how they afforded such a nice apartment while I'd moved home with my parents and dealt with a long commute. In both cases our parents were helping with housing but they looked independent to an outside observer while I might have been seen as 'failure to launch".   [/quote]

Pp here. I’m in my mid thirties now and I assume all of the young twenty somethings (and even the older late twenties single people) at my company are getting help from their parents with rent. I didn’t have a super nice apartment or anything - I had a roommate in a one bedroom apartment that we converted to two with an illegal wall - but even that cost a small fortune in NYC. I also saw how hard my parents worked and when I didn’t need their help anymore, it felt like an accomplishment to tell them. In my case, I feel like my parents set good examples and there was an expectation us to do well in school and pursue lucrative enough careers. They would support us until we got there, but it wasn’t something I wanted to take advantage of if that made sense.

I never assumed coworkers at the same job as me (a prestigious bank) who lived at home were failure to launch. I assumed they didn’t come from money and rent didnt come easy to them. [/quote]

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