I would live in a tent before this.

I had to move back home because I didn't have a job. Two days after being back home, I found a job. Now I'm looking to get out ASAP because my sister and her family are moving in because of the economy and I'm just not gonna be able to do it anymore.

I'd rather live w/ my in-laws before I live w/ my parents. I love them dearly but they tend to forget I'm an adult. Plus, they have rooms for boxes of junks, but won't throw anything away so I would have to camp out in the den w/ the washing machine, dryer, and dirty laundry. If I had absolutely NO choice, I guess I would.

I moved back in with my parents almost a year ago and I feel so trapped. I work a full time job to support my father and two brothers ages 24 and 27 who are all unemployed. I often think about about running away but they have sucked me and my bank account dry. I am on the verge of a mental break down and hope to be back out on my own by the end of the year.

I'm really sorry for those of you with bad experiences moving back in with your families. I'm quite close with mine, and if I found a job in the city and needed time to find a place (rather, save money to afford a place), I would live with them for sure... as long as the plan was to leave as soon as I had a proper place to live.

Looks like in 61 days I will have no choice. I graduate then and as of right now I have no jobs prospects. I don't think it will be too bad though.

I did when I graduated from college. It was a little tough at times, but I am grateful that I was able to be there. They are both getting older and I know they appreciated me being home to let the dog out, cook dinner, shovel snow, ect.

I always have the option of going home and I will be for the summer but I am fortunate to have gotten into Grad school so I hope to get my own place. I think if I really had to I could live at home for a year but no longer.

Only if my only other option was homelessness. I have a good relationship with my parents but I think it would be ruined if we all lived under the same roof.

I wouldn't mind.

I'd rather live in a box on a street corner. And God knows I love my parents.

I live at home now! I get along really well with my parents. Sometimes I wish it could be quiet so I could get more work done. But someone who does my laundry and makes dinner for me? Life is good! And I get to put all of my stipend in savings (or take extravagant trips the other grad students can't afford!)

Depends on the circumstances. I moved in with my parents when I lost my apartment to a fire. At first it was great because they helped out a lot. After three years i've started my apartment search and ready to move out again.

I lived at home for the 6 months between undergrad and grad school, I worked as much as I could and helped out around the house. That being said, now it isn't an option for me, my graduate school is 13 hours away from my parents. I would have to be in very dire straights to move back, but I know my parents would be willing to help.

if you have no choice, you have no choice. it's better than living in my car. especially now that we have kids. gosh, that would be sad even sadder, i don't think my husbands family would offer.

i would move back in with my mom if i had to. but i guess my mom is not as bad as some parents are, she lets me have my space..she's not one of those all in your business types!

I did after college because we had some family issues going on. I was there for about a year. I was ready to move out, but if I ever had to go back I could handle it. Wouldn't be happy about it, but I could handle it.

If I weren't starting a grad program halfway across the country, I might consider it, but probably couldn't do it more than a year.

No.

My parents live on a boat and I have harsh seasickness. Bad call.

But actually, I did move back to their apartment when they started living on their boat. They needed a permanent address for a little while and I was in the process of looking for a new place so I just paid them a teensy tiny bit of rent on a place they were keeping for a while anyways! Worked out nicely. I love my mommy.

Would NEVER live with my dad though. He's a scrapper. Drives me crazy, always wants to argue about nothing

That means ultimate failure for me. I moved out at 18 to start my own life....

been there and won't go back again! I love my parents dearly, but we are completely different people and it got really hairy living with them as a married couple

im at my parents house now b/c the hubby lives away and i wish i didnt have to..arghh its so stressful!!

Oh God, no way! My parents have 8 barky little dogs that have pretty much taken over their house entirely. They bark nonstop and are not exactly housebroken, so you're always finding little doggie "surprises" everywhere. They do have a guest room set up in my old room with a queen sized bed, but any time we spend the night there it seems like she forgets that most married people have sex and she "accidentally" barges in on us a lot. I can hardly stand to spend one night there, let alone go back to living there again.

I had my parents move in with me because they were in this situation. A bad situation got worse. They didn't want to pay the utilities and take care of my house. I moved in with my boyfriend since they were there. I didn't want to live with them as an adult. They ended up leaving me two months behind on my bills. I wished I had gone to the trouble to change the utilities in their names but I didn't foresee that happening by my parents.

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Post-grad life is not easy for everyone. I didn't have a job right away and I had no money to live on my own. My only choice was to go back. I wasn't able to leave because my mom got hurt at work and now I'm helping with the finances. My goal is to leave next year! Ain't no shame, it's only temporary.

im in grad school so i go home every summer so i don't have to pay rent etc. i am very thankful i can fall back on my parents

I love my parents, but no. I'll do anything - elope to another country, take out loans and do another grad degree, take any job, move in with friends - to not have to move back in. I did it once for 4 months when I was 25 and that was just too much.

i'm actually considering this right now . . . we'll see!

I live at home and I love it! I get along great with my parents and being a student, it just makes life so much easier! Plus I'm so not ready to move out yet - I would miss them too much! I guess I'm just not at that stage yet.

I am super close with my Mom. She would probably drive me crazy if I moved back though. If I really couldn't afford an apartment on my own I would definitely consider moving back home.

I am super close with my Mom. She would probably drive me crazy if I moved back though. If I really couldn't afford an apartment on my own I would definitely consider moving back home.

It wouldn't be the worse thing in the world at this point, since many of my friends still live at home, but after being on my own for the past 4-5 years while at university, I just would feel trapped and would miss the freedom I have living on my own. My parents are VERY overprotective and overbearing, so nothing I do would go unnoticed, and they would treat me like a teenager. I feel like the gap between the year I left home and now is like a standstill point for them. I love going home for holidays, but I prefer to live on my own.

Yes, I most definitely would. My mom actually always excitedly suggests "You could move back in with us!" when I say "I hope my job doesn't suddenly go!"

OH GOD NO. Seriously, when I lived with my parents, my mother watched my every movement like a hawk. (My dad worked long and unpredictable hours, so we were never sure when he would be around, and he didn't do very much as far as raising us. He was generally better about it, but not there most of the time when my mom needed the most tempering.) She felt like she had to have a big discussion about drugs and drinking anytime I went out with friends whose parents she didn't know personally (which was most of them), which was ALMOST NEVER, because I was suffering from severe depression in high school (though I didn't know it at the time). I had been confined to the house at all times from 10-14 (unless I was at parent sanctioned extracurricular activities), so when I showed almost no self esteem, social skills or motivation to socialize in high school like "normal" kids, she constantly acted as if there was something wrong with me and I couldn't make any intelligent decisions on my own. She made me generally miserable.

I went to college freshman year and all of the sudden was (I thought deliriously) happy; I figured it was just because I was having the best year of my life. I came back home for the summer, and when I couldn't get a job because that's when the economy tanked, my mom was all over my case again and it got worse. She threw a hissy fit when I wanted to create my own class schedule and not follow hers; she hated my boyfriend (my pillar of support) because I was "too dependent on him"; she didn't understand why I wasn't working "hard enough" to get a job; she said I should be grateful to be able to come back and do the chores again, because she had no obligation past 18 to house me...I actually had to get COUNSELING to get over my issues with my mother so that I could function when I went back to school. It was that bad. Of course, from their point of view, living with them had nothing to do with it, but I know better. I will NEVER go back to that option again, not unless every cardboard box on the street is already taken and I have nowhere else to go.
Well, maybe with my dad. But that's another story.

I live at home now. I'm really close with my parents though and they are totally awesome. We have such a great time together. I'd rather live at home and save money for a down payment on a house than throw my money away on rent. My boyfriend and I also plan to get engaged this year so it's worked out perfectly. I'll actually be really sad to leave.

I'm Indian, so it is perfectly normal for kids to live with their parents, often even if after they get married. So I don't view it as a problem at all! I love my parents!

No, especially since I now live with my partner and I'm sure he wouldn't want to move back to the parental nest either.

i thought about this yesterday actually. the only way i would ever move in with a family member is if i was unemployed for 2+ months. that is about when my savings will run out and i couldn't afford to live in NJ on unemployment. but sleeping on a couch at my brother's house doesn't really sound appealing even if it's free!

I don't have much of an option. I have a very volatile relationship with my mother so unfor I couldn't if I ever needed to.

i desparately hate the job i've been at since i graduated (almost 2 yrs ago). i'm considering going back to school and possibly living @ home so i can afford to quit my job. eek, that sound so bad considering the ecomony and unemployment.

When I was 23 with a child, I got a divorce. If I hadn't gone to live with my parents with my son I'd have been homeless.

However, I was out of there again in 6 months. I knew it would be hell going in, so I did everything in my power to keep the time I was there as short as possible.

I would probably take advantage of my ex first before moving back home.

I wouldn't mind living with my mom again, but there's no way I'd ask my husband to move in, too.

I already do, it's very difficult living here. But you have to make it work.

No, I wouldn't consider it. But that because I'm getting married next month, and my folks live in another state. We've have to both be unemployed and have eaten through our savings for parental co-habitation to occur. While I know they're always there for me if I need it, the scenario is far from likely to ever happen. *phew*

I did this, and am in the middle of it now - just as a breather stop from college to grad school. But man moving back home DEFINITELY was not the best decision I ever made. Sure, free room and board and meals and cable and whatnot are nice - but not when you have to deal with "house rules" for teenagers that just don't make sense when you're in your 20s. But the prospect of that is supposed to KEEP you from moving back in with the parents, right?

i don't have any real issues with my parents but i honestly DON'T consider this an option. my parents have no spare bedrooms in their appartment so i'd be living in their living room. i will not accept that as an option. i'll stay with my boyfriend. we've already talked about what would happen if i get kicked out of where i'm living [cuz it's kind of a possibility] and he is more than willing to live with me, so i'll live with him before my parents. it would take more than a broken economy to make me go back.

I would go into a homeless shelter before this happened... OH WAIT I DID...

Moving back home isn't an option. My sister already moved out and then moved back in again. I'd go insane. My dad was telling me about some arguments him and my mum had had recently and I could feel my blood pressure raising!!

My boyfriend's parents have offered us the option of moving into their house. There is enough space and we can actually tolerate them. We'd consider it but honestly it would be a LAST DITCH option if we got desperate! I think we'll be OK for at least 6 months or so.

My parents already told me I wouldn't be able to move back in with them (Nice, huh, since I'm only 20) but my boyfriends mom would let us live with her if it came down to it!