Census Figures: Student Apartment

Montreal Gazette Dept: "When you live at home, they're always around and if you ever have any difficulties, even if you don't want to talk to them about it, they're still there so you don't ever feel like you're alone,'' says the fourth-year University of Ottawa biomedical science student. I think if you have the opportunity to live at home, even for an extra year or two years, cherish it, because once you move out, coming back isn't ever the same.'', according to Montreal Gazette. According to census figures, 43.5 per cent of Canada's four million young adults aged 20 to 29 were living with their parents in 2006, the most recent year for which information is available, up from 41.1 per cent five years earlier and 32.1 per cent two decades before. Among 20- to 24-year-olds, 60.3 per cent were under their parents' roof, while 26 per cent of those aged 25 to 29 were living at home and when exam time rolls around, Vania Mirdavoudi isn't huddled in a student apartment with her roommates, subsisting on ramen noodles and fretting over the utility bill in between study sessions. Instead, the 21-year-old is living in her parents' home, where someone is always happy to check in on her and offer food or a ride to the library - and she's grateful for every minute of it. This generation of young adults who boomerang back to the family nest - or stay longer before finally taking flight - has been lampooned everywhere from Hollywood movies to the cover of The New Yorker magazine, but experts say this expanding trend has been mislabelled as dysfunctional when it's now quite normal. As reported in the news.
@t ramen noodles, new yorker magazine